Muchachas Guairenas  Berthica Medina y conjunto  RCA Records (Venezuela)

(19 votes, average: 3.21 out of 5)

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“Musica Del Palodemayo / Costa Atlantica de Nicaragua”   Performed by Grupo Gamma   Sonorama Records  (Costa Rica)    Listen HERE!

(21 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)

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4 Disques pour savoir … la table de multipication   Magnard Records (France)

(22 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5)

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A beautiful cover from Brazil on Polydor Records.  Captures a fifties jitterbug thing but with a raw Latin American vibe.  “Dancando na Gafieira”  By Santana & Seu Regional Moderno

(18 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)

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“El Viejo Raton ”  Perico Records (Puerto Rico)

(15 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5)

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My birthday brought this sweet cover from an ancient want list finally.  Thanks Tony for the surprise!  Franchino del Mare  F.D.M. Records (Italy)

(33 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5)

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Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg  Suite No. 1 performed by the Cromwell Symphony Orchestra and Suite No. 2 performed by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra Camden Records  A budget label with what looks like a Jim Flora illustration.  Jon Henry is credited on the bottom front cover, but perhaps he art directed?  Looking for a Flora expert (Irwin Chusid are you there?)

(15 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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“Great Scott”  The Bobby Scott Trio featuring Whitey Mitchell, bass and Bill Bradley, drums  Bethlehem Records (1954)  Design and illustration (in the style of David Stone Martin) by the legendary Burt Goldblatt.  Liner notes by the great Ira Gitler ,(whom I’ve had the pleasure to meet and spend time with over the past 25 years).  I love that after looking at records for more than 40 years (daily), that I can still find one like this that I’ve never seen!

(27 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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20 Kiddy Klassics  “Real Happy Tunes”  Lester Records  For hours of “Tuneful Fun”!

(17 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention  Weasels Ripped My Flesh  Warner Bros. Records  Released in 1970, WRMF is the second posthumous Mothers album released after the band disbanded in 1969.   In contrast to its predecessor, Brunt Weenie Sandwich, which predominately focused on studio recordings of tightly arranged compositions,  this album largely consists of live recordings and features more improvisation.

Neon Park was working as a poster artist with The Family Dog, a San Francisco design group, when he got a call from Frank Zappa asking him to come down to Los Angeles. Zappa had seen the drawings Park had done for a group called Dancing Food and wanted him to paint the jacket for the next Mothers of Invention record, Weasels Ripped My Flesh. At their meeting, Zappa showed Park a magazine cover. “It was one of those men’s magazines, like Saga,” says Park. “The cover story was ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh,’ and it was the adventure of a guy, naked to the waist, who was in water. The water was swarming with weasels, and they were all kind of climbing on him and biting him. So Frank said, ‘This is it. What can you do that’s worse than this?’ And the rest is history.”

Park’s painting, for which he was paid $250, almost didn’t see the light of day. Zappa butted heads with Warner Bros. over its suitability for release. “Evidently,” says Park, “there was quite a confrontation that occurred over this cover. It wasn’t up to their standards.” Even after Warner Bros. finally consented to use it, there were problems. “The printer was greatly offended,” says Park. “The girl who worked for him, his assistant, she wouldn’t touch the painting. She wouldn’t pick it up with her hands.” Zappa and Park, meanwhile, were tickled silly by the brouhaha: “I was greatly amused by the cover, and so was Frank,” says Park. “I mean, we giggled a lot.”

And courtesy of lp cover lover Tycho …

And/or courtesy of lp cover lover Rejean …

(37 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)

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