Today’s Top Hits by the Homestead, featuring Short People  Homestead Records

(13 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Vol II  Los Santos  Musart

The theme of heaven and hell, angels and devils, good and evil is frequently illustrated on album covers of all genres. Often with humorous and sometimes sexy depictions. Here’s another nice latin cover – from simpler times. Album cover art from Latin American countries is among the best in the world. I don’t know why, but check back and I’ll show you. This is another one on the Musart label (music + art).

(24 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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Crying Demons Crying Demons Crying Demons  A. A. Allen  Miracle Revival Records

This is just amazing. Was on my want list for a long time. This is the quintessential over-the-top, tent revival preacher, miracle worker put on. The record is by AA Allen who made many of these bible belt recordings with the “actual sounds”  of exorcism and healing. This one is from the fifties and came in a neat blood red vinyl. The guy on the cover is laughable and goofy. Others in this genre can get pretty ugly. I’ll show you some in the future.

(24 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

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Ain’t Misbehavin’: Fats Waller’s Hits and Jazz  Broadway Jazz Orchestra  Halo

Bettie Page was on the cover of 3 Lps in fifties. The most famous uses the Bunny Yeager shot with the tigers, the other is cropped version of this photo. This is the sexiest and hardest to find. Halo is a great label for cheesecake covers. It was a budget label with smaltzy pop music and hits covered by orchestras. But many remain prime examples of early LPs with sexy models and pin-up photography. It would be incredible if anyone unearthed another lp from this period with Bettie on the cover. Maybe there’s one in another country that will show up some day.

(45 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5)

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Mr. Bat Sings (w/ Mrs. L. E. Tweten, accompanist)

This is one of the weirdest private press lps. The cover is amazing and has nothing to do with the generic xian music within. Clowns are creepy sometimes, but this is John Wayne Gacey scarey.

(37 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)

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Philosophy of the World  The Shaggs  Third World Records

Here’s perhaps the most celebrated outsider record and a true musical discovery. A self-produced, family band from the 1960’s. Susan Orleans wrote about the group in a New Yorker piece and the lp was reissued sometime in the early nineties. Original copies are rare and sell for $1,000 and up. I think only 1,000 were pressed with most thrown out in a dumpster in Boston.

(46 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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