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!”

(49 votes, average: 3.90 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…)

(42 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)

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Une Soiree Au Cafe Montmartre Avec Romeo Perusse   (Thanks to Guy who writes, I noticed you have a Romeo Perusse album in the collection and I have one too. It was my grandfather’s album, despite him not speaking French. Haha.)

(44 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)

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From Thailand.

(45 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

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Al Green’s 2nd album, 1969’s “Green is Blues.”   His first on Hi Records and first time with co-writer/producer Willie Mitchell and the tight arrangements of Memphis’ renowned Hi Rhythm Section   Includes a mix of a originals and great covers done with “The Memphis Sound.” “Talk to Me”;   Smoky Robinson’s “My Girl”; the Box Tops’   “The Letter”; a funky James Brown-inspired “Get Back Baby”; the Beatles’ “Get Back”; and Gershwin’s “Summertime,”   done with a slow, mellow stream as opposed to Billy Stewart’s rat-a-tat version from a few years earlier.   This is a variation of the original cover, but a nice one that captures in the spotlight the glistening, clench-fisted soul of Green’s deep emotional delivery.   “A young man who is a red hot rhythm and blues singer with a difference that is gonna be greatly dug by all who tune an ear to the variegated tones and shades of this album”.   – Original liner notes, 1969.

(38 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

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A rare example of illustrator Jim Flora’s work on this Columbia Records 78RPM 10″ record album, “Come to the Circus”

(48 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)

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Jack Hammer   “The Wiggle” / “Wiggling Fool”     Vogue EP France

(40 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5)

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