Vincent Price Presents Great Paintings in Musical Impressions by Ned Freeman and Performed by the Orchestra dei Concerti di Roma, Paul Baron Conducting. Dot Records.

In 1951, Price donated some 90 pieces from his own collection to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, thus establishing the first “teaching art collection” owned by a community college in the U.S. Today, the Vincent Price Art Gallery continues to present world-class exhibitions, and remains one of the actor’s most enduring legacies. The collection contains over 2,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of five million dollars. – Wikipedia

(14 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)

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Our logo was designed by Frank Olinsky, an incredible artist who has created some very famous and familiar icons including the MTV logo. Frank has also designed great album and CD covers for 10,000 Maniacs, The B-52’s, R.E.M, Smashing Pumpkins and many others. Check out his work at FrankOlinsky.com.

(14 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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The great Rube Goldberg illustrated this otherwise forgettable barber shop quartet record “Barber Shop in Hi-Fi”  Harmonized by The Play-Tonics.  Goldberg became synonymous with fantastically imaginative machines set in motion by a series of comical (and at times complicated) reactions and effects.  Here for example a mechanical barber is powered by the quartet’s sad song provoking the parrot’s tears; the plumbers response triggering the mouse, the cat lifting the candle to ignite the rocket, etc… Good fun always.  There are books of this stuff and there are several contests around the world known as Rube Goldberg contests which challenge high school students to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.  According to Wikipedia, the term “Rube Goldberg machine” first appeared in Webster’s Dictionary with the definition “accomplishing, by extremely complex roundabout means, what actually or seemingly could be done simply.”

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A neat Andy Warhol illustrated cover for Tennesse Williams Reading from “The Glass Menagerie, The Yellow Bird and Five Poems”. On Caedmon. Text and line drawings by Warhol (his signature clear in the upper left hand corner). Nice washes of color too.

(9 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)

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These old Folkways Records were very special to those in the New York City music scene that Dylan came upon circa 1962. He writes of meeting Cisco Houston at a party on Fifth Avenue down in the Village. Cisco was a compatriot of and fellow traveler with Woody Gutherie. The real deal. Dylan imagined getting a recording contract with Folkways — never dreamt of recording for Mitch Miller’s Columbia until John Hammond signed him. These Folkways covers are distinctive for their think, heavy cardboard covers. This one includes a nice line drawing by artist Ben Shahn. Shahn did numerous covers in the Fifties and early Sixties for various labels.

(11 votes, average: 3.09 out of 5)

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This is part of a series of records on the French Fontana label that feature the drawings of the french pin-up illustrator Alain Aslan.

(36 votes, average: 4.58 out of 5)

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For fifty points, name the Twentieth Century artist whose paintings this cover resembles.

(14 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Another great Jack Davis illustration.  Homer & Jethro “Songs My Mother Never Sang” on RCA Victor (Trick or Treat series?)

(8 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5)

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The Velvet Underground by Andy Warhol.

“Hey man, said the monkey to the banana, gimme some skin!”

(21 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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