HUSH!   The Duke Pearson Quintet   Donald Byrd, Johnny Coles, Bob Cranshaw, Walter Perkins and Duke Pearson   JazzLine Records   (1962)   This is some great jazz by some of the music’s greatest artists, so sshhhhh, put on the record and just listen.

(46 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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Check this out! John Purlia’s Wonderland of Wind-up Fun John uses great old LP covers as backdrops for his colorful diaramas of miniatures, toys, blocks, doll heads, coins and whatever else he finds.   Eye candy galore!

(52 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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“Buon Giorno Napoli”   Aurelio Fierro (Italy’s most popular singer of Neopolitan songs.   Recorded in Italy)   An “Adventure in Sound” recording from Columbia Records.

Thanks to “Way Back Now! Let’s Go…” for sharing his vision and fine photoshop work with us.   Some would have been satisfied with the generously proportioned model in the original!

(54 votes, average: 3.94 out of 5)

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“Red Velvet”   Stanley Black and his Orchestra   London Records   This ubiquitous dollar record is easy listening pablum.   Aural wallpaper.   The cover is pretty tame, lifeless and unsexy, but it does have a fifties babe surrounded by LP’s and a sweet console.

(56 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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The UK release of Spike Jones’ “Thank You Music Lovers!”   RCA Victor   With a wonderful illustrated cover by Jack Davis!   (For more, check out our Jack Davis category to the left)   (Thanks to new contributor Brian Griffiths who writes “I’ve just found your Lp cover site and I’ve had a great time looking through it.   I enclose an Lp that I bought in 1966, with pix by Jack Davis.   I’ve left the sticker from the record shop – The Disc Shop, which closed many years ago, and the price (which was alway in pencil and on the back of the cover)   Once again, thanks for the site.”)

Brian adds, “I live in the UK, in a village called Coedpoeth (translates as ‘hot wood’, there was charcoal burning around this area for use in reducing lead ore to lead.   Coedpoeth is a village near Wrexham which is the largest town in North Wales.   It’s the place after which the Wrexham Tower at Yale University is named. The sixth form College in Wrexham is also called Yale, although the University here is called Glyndwr.   As for me, I’m a retired (i.e. old and cranky) Chemistry teacher!”

(48 votes, average: 3.96 out of 5)

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McDonald’s Cave   By The Piltdown Men   Capitol Records Sweden   (Thanks again Ulf)     I feel like this photo is on a U.S. album cover too.   I’ll think of it.   Unless someone out there can first.   I’ll throw in an LP Cover Lover T-shirt to anyone that can show me an American released LP with the same cover…

(56 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

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Laura Nyro   “Eli’s Comin’ c/w “Sweet Blindness”   Columbia Records 1968   Two big hits written by Laura, but taken to the top of the charts by others (Three Dog Night and The Fifth Dimension).   I prefer these originals.

(53 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Another from Ulf in Sweden.   Egon Kjerrman.   Polydor.

(43 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)

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“Confessions of an EX-Roman Catholic Priest”   Emmett McLoughlin   Recorded in 1962     “Uncensored!!!”   “Uncut!!!”   “Startling!!!”   “Shocking!!!”   Here’s the back cover in response to your request for more information (Thanks to WBN!,LG…)

(41 votes, average: 3.02 out of 5)

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