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Billie Holiday by DSM on Mercury

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A french toast?

“Charlie Digs Paree”   Charlie Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971) brings his golden trumpet to Paris.   MGM Records   (1959)   Swing era trumpet great, arranger and composer, Shavers played with all the greats, wrote the jazz standard “Undecided” and made a number of recordings as trumpet soloist with Billie Holiday.

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Chicks dig records

Girls and records!   Chicks and music.   The following collection of photos was inspired by our friends at   Stupefaction who got us to thinkin’ that we’d also like to have a gallery of LP-lovin’ ladies with records and record players too.   If you find one please send it in and we’ll add it here!   (As most of these photos have been found or contributed without proper credit, if you know the photographer, model, rights holder or original source please let us know.)

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Records make Stephanie smile.  She makes us smile too!

The quintessential chick digs records!!   Here’s pin-up queen Bettie Page dropping the needle on a stack of 45’s!   We’re guessing it’s a swinging, hip-grinding, rump-rolling selection to get everyone in the mood.

Chchcherie Bomb!

Lovely LP Cover Lover pin-up calendar girl with records

Bogie’s beauty – Lauren Bacall makes our head spin too.

Chicks who va-va voooom

Thanks Mel for finding “The Record Player” from 1939 by Karl Hofer, German (1878-1955)   (Property of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)

Mamie!   How we love ya, how we love ya, dear old Mamie!

Of all the Playboy Playmates (not including our LPCL Playmates), Donna Michell will always be my favorite (and I didn’t even know she dug records).   Thanks to Bob at Retro Hound for reminding me.

Twist it, Babe!

Baby work out!

Another from the indefatigable Farbror-sid.com (via fast Eddie)

Is it a hat box or a portable record player?   Ask 1930’s hoofer, Ruby Keeler!

“This little girl is obviously thrilled with her record player.   Yet it is probably the lowest “fi” possible – she has to turn it by hand.”

Always let your girl pick the music.

French chanteuse Juliette Greco (from Boris Vian’s illustrated Manual of St Germain des Pres).

Why get up?

Look who’s got the Fever for records!   Peggy Lee!

You don’t NEED a record player to listen to your albums.   I guess.

Record head!

Marianne Faithful DIGS records by The Faces and Bach too.

Pattie (Mrs. Harrison then Mrs. Clapton) digs the fab four!

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This is how Mel does it!

Date Night!

Amazing.   Bardot digging records!!   C’est bon! (Thanks Eddie)

A turkey and a turntable in every kitchen!   (From WFMU’s Beware the Blog!)

Chicks dig records undressed and

in dresses too.

Students play records in their dorm room, 1950s.   © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collection

Oui oui, that is Catherine Deneuve digging some old 45’s

Bobby Gentry digs records like “Ode to Billie Joe”

Rose McGowan is goin’ old school diggin’ LPs with her pooch.   What an amazing portable turntable!   Looks like it was made by a car company!   Can anyone identify the maker and model?

“BamBoo!” by Chris Watson

Oh look!   There’s Loretta Young having a smoke and a spin.

Mel sent me this cool English Beat chick!

Lovely Rita Hayworth poses with yet another Hollywood player.

A black and white candid of colored-vinyl lovers

Car dreams!

Shredding singles in the garage.

Golden girl with a Decca 45

“It’s your move”   Rake magazine from January 1962

Deborah Harry listens to records.

Put something good on.

The look of love.

Sorry Tony, LP Cover Lover wants chicks who dig records!

Will the REAL Judy Garland please stand up and put on a record?

 

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Woody Herman indeed.

“Lush” “Exquis” “Swoony”

We dig Chloe Sevigny flipping sides!

After the dance, in the wee hours, Martha considers something slow and romantic.   She also considers calling for a pizza delivery.

Hollywood actress Jean Simmons (“Hamlet”, “Guys and Dolls”) sidles up to big-ass Victrola for some leisure time listening.

Another little something from Mel in Wellington!

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Caterina Valente sits on nice jazz records!

Shake Your Booty..

What a smile!

From Farbror-sid.com

Thanks to Eddie who keeps finding these!   “With so much else to boast about (wink wink), Carole Singleton invariably boasts of her record collection and the wide variety of selections always at her disposal”   REALLY?!

Some guys dream of chicks who dig records!

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Peggy King sits and listens to records.   Dig that!

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Nickie says that she’s a “card carrying chick that digs records” and she has a cool site to prove it – Imperfect Like Us.

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Help I’ve fallen and can’t get up.       Why is this kind of a pose so appealing?

Thanks Fred!

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Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

Illustration by Serge Clerc, from an old issue of NME magazine.

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Christine Aguilera is just another chick that digs records

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The girl can’t help it, she digs vinyl!   Mamie Van Doren strikes a familiar pose.

Marlène Dietrich. 1956 à l'hotel de Paris.

Thanks to Fred (via Asterisks) for this lovely entry into Chicks Dig Records.   Marlene Deitrich here gives us her singular take on this familiar pose and set up.

Sophia Loren reviews photo shoot contact sheets while listening to some vinyl – in her bedroom no less.

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Marilyn in another from a photo session with the great Philip Halsman

Marilyn Monroe is dreamy, digging records.

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Zooey Daschenel digs records.   And we dig her.

One good spin deserves another!     Thanks Mel.

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Our kind of laptop.

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Tiffany and Courtney spinning 7″ records

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Play it again, Sam   You played it for her, now play it for me. (Niagra, 1953)

Chicks dig records.   And coke.

Some chicks dig Pepsi though.

I’m a pepper, you’re a pepper, she digs records and is a pepper too!

Chicks love Cash

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Megan Fox digs records…oh my god.   Mark Seliger photo, Rolling Stone.

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Nice rack!

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This lovely lady browsing in the pop section of her local record store was found at the always entertaining RetroSpace.

Photo by Lena Modigh

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The man who thought his wife was a turntable.   (Courtesy of Eddie Gorodetsky)

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Winona digs old records

Nicely stacked records

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Natalie Wood digs records, but doesn’t care for them properly.   Photo by   Murray Garrett

And the flip side!

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Gigi over the holidays.

Joanie Labine, the first female DJ at the Whiskey (circa 1965)

Lindsey at the wheels

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Dusty Springfield digs records (and chicks who dig records)

Billie Holiday digs records.

Judy Garland digs records more than Micky Rooney!

So does Brenda Lee.

Joan Collins used to dig records

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Another photo of Joan Collins relaxing at home with her collection (courtesy of Tim at Stupefaction)

Lookin’ for love in a dusty groove.

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Singer Pat O’day digs records

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Thanks Fred.

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“This next love song is dedicated to LP Cover Lover.”

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Andrea digs swinging singles

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Tina Louis digs records (Courtesy of belestrange)

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Yes, Yes, Yes!

Singles night (Another vinyl-loving babe lifted from Stupefaction and the original “Chicks Dig Vinyl”).   This is Ellen von Unwerth, a world renowned fashion photographer, model, filmmaker.

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This girl should have an LP Cover Lover T-shirt – let us know if you know her.

Kirsten Dunst in Virgin Suicides doesn’t want to torch her records!

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Thanks to Mike Gassman, lp cover lover and graphic designer, for sending this one in.

The last few courtesy of Way Back Now! Lets Go…

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“I’m sure you’ll really dig this hard swingin’, jazzy, up-tempo groover”

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Silk stockings and vinyl.

It’s Andrea’s fault.

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Via Bebelestrange.

“I have more records just like this one upstairs in my room…”

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Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

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After looking for a while, you’ll eventually notice some records in the background!

Sometimes dreams DO come true!

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Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

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Betty and Veronica dig The Beatles.

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Baby workout!   Thanks Mel!

Gidget takes the Downbeat Blindfold Test.   Is it Stan Getz or Zoot Sims?

I think she’s turning Japanese.

The one above came in from Jen who writes the blog Eye Eat Music

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Look it’s Audrey Hepburn diggin’ records!

LP Cover Lover delivers!

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Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

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One of Mel’s belles.

Daydreamnin’ and I’m thinking of you

Gloria Swanson plays the blues in “Sadie Thompson” (1928)

Ciao Bello!   Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice, 1949

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Thanks to LP cover lover Eddie for finding this and to whomever did the art.

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Nipper and his chick dig records.   78’s.

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Is this Bjork flippin’ the racks?

Chicks dig records in big piles.

Look who’s playing records on this average suburban evening?   Not Dad, he’s getting stoned.   Not Junior, he’s planning his escape to a rave after midnight.   Not Mom, she’s been in the same position for two days.

What a stunner!!       Thanks to Eddie G. for finding Jean Jani, Miss July  1957 above!

A Playmate with Jimi Hendrix, snoopy and all that God gave her.

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This LP-loving, sun-worshipping Playmate Centerfold digs records SO much that she wouldn’t even consider bringing her transister radio to the beach.   (And yes, I am disturbed to see such miscare and blatant disregard for the preservation of these LPs)

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Comp time

“An Evening With Eddie Heywood and Billie Holiday” Commodore Records.   A 1960 release of recordings from 1944 sessions and an exquisite Chuck Stewart cover photo!

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Thru thick and thin

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“War Between Fats and Thins” Harvey Matusow’s Jews Harp Band (1969)

“I’m a French lover of lp covers and I like very much your website. I want to contribute original psychà ©dà ©lic LP cover. Psychà ©dà ©lic music is my great passion of my life. I propose this very strange cover of a psychà ©dà ©lic group : HARVEY MATUSOW’S BAND – Friendly yours,” Henri DEFFONTAINE

Thanks Henri, I have this cover but never knew anything about it. Check out this incredible story (and MP3’s from the album) courtesy of WFMU:

“A psychedelic Jews Harp record! As unusual as this LP is, it pales in comparison to Marshall “Harvey” Matusow’s life, which intersected every major artery of post-war America. Born in the Bronx in 1926, Matusow was a Jewish street hustler who was picking pockets by age ten, and went on to work throughout his life as a Spy, DJ, Thief, Broadway Agent, Gambler, Stand Up Comic, Actor, Author, Musician, Professional Red Baiter, Filmmaker, Impresario, TV Clown and Social Activist. He was married twelve times, and palled around with Billie Holiday, Norman Mailer, Jason Robards, Steve McQueen, Emile de Antonio, Yoko Ono, Art Carney and Genovese mob boss Frank Costello. Ladybird Johnson invited him to the White House, and he invented the myth that smoking banana peels would get you high (as an ill conceived plot to extract geopolitical revenge on the United Fruit Company, aka Chiquita Banana).

In his later days he replaced LSD with LDS, converting to Mormonism and rechristening himself as Job Matusow. In his final years, he worked as a tireless advocate for the homeless, runaway teenagers and prostitutes while he made ends meet by establishing a successful children’s theater / TV show starring himself as Cockyboo the Clown He tried his whole life to live down his reputation as the most hated man in America for his work with Joseph McCarthy and the House Unamerican Affairs Committee (HUAC), fleeing to self-imposed exile in England in the Sixties, where he immersed himself in the worlds of avant garde art, music and film. While in Britain, he produced the largest festival of avant garde music ever, the ICES 72 concert. He invited his pal Yoko Ono and her husband to London for the gallery show where Yoko met John, making him partially responsible for breaking up The Beatles. (He was fully responsible for breaking up The Weavers, accusing Pete Seeger and other band members of being communists.) And of course, while in the UK, he took lots of acid and recorded his Jews Harp record.

Matusow enlisted in the US Army in 1943 in order to secure a high school diploma he never otherwise would’ve received. Back in New York after the war, he worked various jobs (including as an agent for Dean Martin) while he drifted towards Greenwich Village hootenannies, the folk music revival and the American Communist Party. He set a party record (and won a trip to Puerto Rico) for selling subscriptions to their newspaper, The Daily Worker. But by 1950, he either sensed an opportunity for money and fame, or (according to him) needed to protect his own ass, so he contacted the FBI and began his four year long career as a paid informer for anyone in need of an anti-Communist accuser with bona fide red street cred.

He approached this endeavor with the same gusto he had shown months earlier selling subscriptions to The Daily Worker, and ultimately destroyed the lives of hundreds of innocent Americans, communists and non-communists alike. In 1952 he went to work for Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn who put him on their payroll and encouraged his tendency to create lists of communists out of thin air. Among Matusow’s targets during this period of time were The New York Times and The Girl Scouts. He even went so far as to seduce and marry (twice!) McCarthy’s wealthiest backer, Arvilla Peterson Bentley, moving into her Washington DC mansion (now the German Embassy). Matusow, a high school dropout, had been running a floating craps game a few years earlier, and now he was the darling of the national anti-communist community and living in a mansion with butlers and servants at his beck and call.

In 1954, either because he felt remorse over the destruction he caused, or because he sensed another quick buck, he came clean on his years of lying and perjury with his book False Witness. In it, he truthfully accused Cohn and McCarthy of keeping him on the payroll as a paid witness and a professional liar. For once, Matusow was telling the truth, but Roy Cohn didn’t see it that way. Cohn accused him of lying in the book, and in the ensuing trial, Matusow was convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. As a professional liar, Matusow had been the toast of the town, but for finally telling the truth, he was imprisoned. It was then that he was dubbed “The Most Hated Man in America” by The National Enquirer, The Baltimore Sun and other papers. Billie Holiday threw him a going-to-jail party, and once in the slammer, he had the cell next to Wilhelm Reich, who died with Matusow just a few feet away.

Released from prison in 1960, Matusow dived into the worlds of art and publishing, but found himself unable to live down his years of redbaiting, an invitation to the White House from Ladybird Johnson notwithstanding (she enjoyed his “Art Collector’s Almanac” He helped found the underground newspaper “The East Village Other” met Timothy Leary, tripped a lot, helped runaway hippies in New York, did lots of standup comedy, pulled off phone pranks with Andy Warhol, and helped organize Norman Mailer’s mayoral run, even getting Christine Keeler to auction off her bra for the cause. Yet there were always people around who detested him for his 1950’s resume, and at a 1966 fundraiser (where he apologized to Pete Seeger for having him blacklisted), he was so vilified by the crowd that he decided to quit the US for England. Once in the UK, he married experimetal musician Anna Lockwood and recovered within London’s vibrant counterculture.

Matusow returned to the US in 1973 and spent the last 30 years of his life living on communes, helping the homeless, pursuing Mormonism and making ends meet by bumming money from old friends and working with his Magic Mouse Theater Troupe and TV show. He died in 2002 as he was working on his autobiography, Stringless Yo Yo.”

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Lady Day

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Billy Holiday on Commodore Records   Cover Photo: Skippy Adelman   Cover Art: John DeVries

A collection of 78 records from two sessions one from 1939 and the other from 1943.   Included is the two-sided hit and best-selling record of her career “Strange Fruit” and “Fine and Mellow”.

Billie Holiday to Nat Hentoff as recalled in his book “Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya” — “I don’t think I’m singing.   I feel like I’m playing a horn.”   “I try to improvise like Les   Young. like Louis Armstrong, or someone else I admire.   What comes out is what I feel.”   Amen.

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Pick yourself up with Anita O’day

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“Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. And start all over again.” This was one of my stepfather’s records and I pulled it out of his small collection when I was about 14 (maybe the cover piqued my pubescent interest).   Anita O’Day remains maybe my favorite female jazz vocalist. When I first moved to New York, I hitchhiked to see her at a small club in New Jersey and sat and spoke with her for about an hour.

Cover photo by the great Herman Leonard. Buddy Bregman arranges and conducts.

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Anita O’Day, the last surviving member of the pantheon of great jazz singers (whose ranks also include Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan), passed away Thanksgiving morning at the age of 87. Born in Chicago, O’Day gained national attention as the girl singer with drummer Gene Krupa’s orchestra on the hit record “Let Me Off Uptown.” After two tenures with Krupa and one, inbetween, with Stan Kenton and his Orchestra, O’Day became a solo star and, along with Fitzgerald and Vaughan, a founding fore-mother ofmodern jazz vocals. Known for her inventive scatting as well as her touching balladeering, O’Day recorded several dozen classic albums, mostly for the Verve label in the 1950s. Ms. O’Day was often as flamboyant visually as she was innovative vocally, evidence of which can be found in the films “The Gene Krupa Story” and “Jazz On A Summer’s Day. A survivor of both heroin and alcohol addiction, she was also the author of one of the great jazz memoirs, “Hard Times, High Times” and the subject of a full-length documentary film, ‘Anita O’Day – The Life of A Jazz Singer’ which is currently in the final stages of completion. –Will Friedwald November 23, 2006

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