Here’s a nice Discuba lp with colorful art.   It’s filled with cha chas and pachangas and such.   Latin jazz flute!

(11 votes, average: 4.82 out of 5)

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This nice little single is from Argentina and includes a cut by Elvis! But it’s the groovy illustration of the rocking green trio that knocks me out.

(11 votes, average: 4.91 out of 5)

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This is one of a series of kids records on Power by Frankie Stein and his ghouls.   There is great monster artwork on all of them.

(9 votes, average: 2.56 out of 5)

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This one is really bizarre. Putting a comic book superhero on a cover with a naked woman is something you won’t see in most record store racks. Good thing as this could freak out a young Batman fan. The drawing of Batman is bad and the nude unattractive giving the overall presentation a sleazy, low-budget appeal.

(65 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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George Petty was one of the great magazine illustrators of pin-up girls and cheesecake models from the 30’s – 50’s. His “Petty girls” from the pages of Esquire were used on numerous covers in the fifties, most notably on this series of releases from Decca records. There was even a movie called “The Petty Girl” with Bob Cummings as Petty and Melanie Griffith’s mom, Tippi Hedron as one of his “girls”.

I also love the little line drawing of the guy with the stack of lps at the bottom. There used to be a mural of this on the wall of a record store. I think “Record Surplus” in LA? Anyone?

(19 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)

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Many fine artists have created original art for album covers including Warhol, Basquiat, Haring and R. Crumb. Crumb most famously perhaps for the Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company record, but also for a series of lps by his own band, The Cheapsuit Serenaders. Others include a bunch of classic blues reissues on the Yazoo label.

(14 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)

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