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Illustration

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Stoned love

“Y El Negro Ahi”   Elliot Romero and the Juan B. Fernandez Orchestra (including Charlie Palmieri, Hector Rodriquez)   Jesika Records   Illustration by Steve Quintana III

(49 votes, average: 4.02 out of 5)

Venus in blue jeans

“Young Love”   Jimmy Carroll – Sy Oliver – Michael Stewart     A Discos Music Hall / Bell Records compilation from Brazil

(47 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

Yacht rock

Os Velhinhos   “Transviados Barbaros…”   RCA Victor Records (Brazil)

(42 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)

Let’s dance

David Bowie   “Without You”   b/w “”Criminal World”   EMI Records   (1983)   Keith Haring illustration.     (Personal aside:   I saw Keith Haring twice, once, in 1982 when he came up to Bard College and covered the art center with his graffiti of   radioactive babies.   Then again in 1989 (the year before he died) at the big Andy Warhol retrospective at MOMA.   Okay, maybe not a classic anecdote, but there you go.)

(65 votes, average: 3.02 out of 5)

French fryer

Antoine (Vogue Records, France)

(49 votes, average: 2.94 out of 5)

“One pill makes you larger…”

Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland   Songs and Narration by Richard Hayes and Roberta Quinlin

(49 votes, average: 3.31 out of 5)

Songs of consequence

“Learning About Health and Safety”     UltraSound       This kind of takes the fun out of getting a record and listening.

(55 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)

Castle rock

Jim Flora cover for Columbia Masterworks   Richard Strauss by Eugene Ormandy, Conductor and The Philadelphia Orchestra

(57 votes, average: 3.37 out of 5)

Playin’ Cricket

Cri-Cri the Cricket

(44 votes, average: 2.70 out of 5)

Out of this world!


“Delirium in HI-FI”   Elsa Popping and Her Pixieland Band   Fontana Records (Philips Records)   AUSTRALIA     Recorded “somewhere in France, “Elsa Popping” is actually French arranger-conductor Andre Popp and sound effects wizard Pierre Fatosme.   Cover Art:   Morris Tookey

Here’s the latest, greatest LP cover I have to get a copy of.     Here’s a $100 bounty for anyone down under (or elsewhere) that can find me a copy!   (This one is Tony’s and that’s just unbearable)   Here’s the more common U.S. cover on Columbia:

(73 votes, average: 4.41 out of 5)