(The Standells – Dirty Water)

(Baby Huey – The Baby Huey Story, The Living Legend)

(Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’)

(Junior Parker – You Don’t Have To Be Black To Love the Blues)

(Sebastian Cabot, Actor… Bob Dylan, Poet)

Okay, well clearly this was just too easy for you guys!  Six “winners” correctly identified all six covers!  They are Mike; Brian Phillips; Johnny Bean from the UK; Jose; Dan in Quebec: and previous contest winner Keith!  But it was Mike that got there first and within just hours.  Congratulations Mike, let us know your information and size and we’ll get you the LPCL T-shirt.  Thanks to everyone that played along!

The Bison Glee Club   Word Records   Waco, TX.   (1956)

Congratulations to Ron, the winner of our LP Cover Contest:

“Being Al Frankovich”   (Subimitted by Ron at Digital AI)

And thanks to the following runner-ups for playing along:

“Spaghetti-O’s”   Chef BoyarGLEE   (Submitted by Anthony Baio)

“We Are All There!   and You…”   Submitted by El Rondcarré

“Say … Ahhh!   The New M.D.’s   (Submitted by Mr. Wolk)

Be the first to correctly name the artist and album name of 5 of the 6 cover images here and win a free LP Cover Love T-shirt!

WE’VE GOT A WINNER! Thanks to all who took the challenge – many of you got at least 4 and there were six of you that listed all 6.   But the first to respond correctly was Lp cover lover Keith from Pottsville, PA. who has a collection of 30,000 lps, including these six albums:

(1)   Dr. John / Gumbo   (back cover)

(2) Frank Zappa / Hot Rats

(3) Laura Nyro / More Than A New Discovery

(4) Marvin Gaye / I Want You (art by Ernie Barnes)

(5) Count Basie / RCA (art by Andy Warhol)

(6) Roy Orbison / Dreams

Name the Albums and Artists.   The first one to get all four correct wins a free LP Cover Lover T-Shirt and a sense of self-satisfaction!

GARRY WINS IN JUST UNDER AN HOUR!   CONGRATULATIONS TO A REAL LP COVER LOVER!   (See Garry’s answers in the comments section here.)

“Family Bible”   A private pressing from Oklahoma.   The name of the group is unlisted, so send in your suggestion by the end of the week.   We’ll pick one and if it’s yours – we’ll send you a free LP Cover Lover T-shirt!

… But YOU can make it better.     We’re going to put up one of those LP Cover Lover T-shirts to the artist among you that can give the best face to this holy ghost.  

And the winner is:   Paul from Vinyl Afterlife (check it out).

Caption Contest #78!!!   Dog gone it!   It’s Contest time again!   Win an LP Cover Lover T-Shirt Leave your best headline in the comments section here. We’ll pick our favorite and you’ll be the envy of your friends, family and neighbors. Deadline:   Wednesday, June 16th at noon. Congratulations “BigMac”!

Congratulations to Contest Winner Derek Schille!   You can see the best of the rest on the Joyful Sounds Contest Finalists page.   Thanks for playing everyone.

(Photoshoppers, image droppers and cover croppers lend me your shears. Can you cut it?     These high-haired honeys are palms out and just begging for something!   We’ll be awarding an LpCoverLover T-Shirt to the artist that submits the most inspired adaptation of the above cover.)

Thai pop by Kwan Jit Sriprajan “Panatibat”   On the BANGKOK AMPLIFY Label (Early 1970′s)

Congratulations to Caption Contest Winner: Atomicj and thanks to all who played along!

(Every once and a while LPCoverLover offers readers the chance to win one of the official T-Shirts so nicely modeled for us by Tiffany, Courtney, Andrea and Lindsey. And since we can’t always find the right caption for our posts, here’s your chance to tell us what you see.   Leave your best headline in the comments section here.   We’ll pick our favorite and you’ll be the envy of your friends, family and neighbors.)

This cover is so great, they actually put the same full photo on the back as well.   No writing anywhere.     We might be asking for trouble, but there’s a free LP Cover Lover T-shirt for the best caption submitted by November 4th.