We love to showcase examples of homemade album covers just like this one.  Whoever this DIY, cover art iconoclast was, he or she wanted to improve on the packaging of this run-of-the-mill record by the Ray Charles Singers.   Using just scissors, paste and pen (and the cut-up of a nude Jayne Mansfield), the result provides a personal, yet universal, response to the title, “Things To Do On A Rainy Night”.  Thanks to Will at ShowandTellMusic for showing this one-of-a-kind find.

(26 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)

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Little Miss Jeri Kelly – 1o Year Old Songstress from Picayune, Miss.  “Poor Ol’ Santa Claus” b/w  “Hide and Seek”MPI  (Music Plus Inspiration) Records

(20 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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“Sing It Again, Sam!”  The inimitable song stylings of Sam Sacks  Arliss Records  For those unfamiliar with the wonder of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog let this be a welcome introduction.  Go to BOTB and listen to Sam’s fantastically awful mauling of standards.  A private recording on par with the best of the worst from Mrs. Miller, Lucia Pamela and Florence Foster Jenkins.  I gotta find a copy!

(27 votes, average: 3.93 out of 5)

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“Deanie”  Heaven’s Hall of Fame!!

(26 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)

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Emil Nargi IS Elvis  “It’s Now or Never”  There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine.  Each one stranger than the last.  Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.

(28 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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“Heaven’s Satellite”  with The Good News Singers from Bakersfield, California.  Vision Records  This one is highly sought after and rarely found.

(31 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)

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“Sweet Caroline” Neil Diamond Uni Records (shown here with a very special spindle girl – my sweet Caroline!)

Officially released on September 16, 1969, Neil only recently revealed that he wrote this after seeing a Life magazine photo of Caroline Kennedy riding a pony in the mid-sixties.  But every Caroline owns it.  The song has been a tradition at Boston’s Fenway Park since 1997, and since 2002 it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning.  Elvis liked to sing it.

Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would

(24 votes, average: 2.25 out of 5)

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“The World of Las Vegas”  “Night Club Music”  Las Vegas & Country Western  Words and Music by Ken (Nevada) Maines.   Smile Records  A DIY effort that has gotten some recognition in outsider and incredibly strange music circles.  Includes the frightening “Shooting of Govenor Wallace”.

Side One is the Vegas side with song titles like “Freemont Street” and “$$$ Signs.”  Side Two is the Country side with “Shooting…” “You Made a Fool Outa Me” and the unexplainable “Oy Vey, What a Dream”.

(21 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5)

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Check out FunFaceCam.com and put yourself on an lp cover.

Contest: Let us see your best one, we might post it and send you a shirt too.

(18 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)

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“Live! At Papa Joe’s Northern A Go-Go”  The Starliners

(32 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)

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