“Music for Jennifer” Selections from the Motion Pictures of Jennifer Jones by Paul Weston and his Orchestra on Columbia.
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“Music for Baton Twirlers.” Mercury Records.
George Jessel “Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups” Riot Records. Jessel was born in Harlem and was once a bat boy for the New York Giants. Once the vaudeville partner of Eddie Cantor and Walter Winchell, he appeared often on the Johnny Carson and Jack Parr show and this album is an answer to the many requests from around the country to finish the stories he could not tell on TV in their entirety. George was given the title of “Toast Master General of the United States” toast mastering functions for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Cover Art Work by : Burt Portnoy & Bob Ghiraldini
Alan Dean Sings “Music to Bawl By”. Apex Records. Album designed by Olshan & Michelson.
“Music for Happy Occassions” Paul Pincus and his Orchestra in High Fidelity. Mercury Records.
Lou Monte “Songs for Pizza Lovers”
“Music for People with Two Left Hands” Dave Nault at the Baldwin Organ.
Before and after some warm milk? That devil baby is scary though!
“Music for Morticians” “Les Pallbearer and His All-Ghoul Orchestra” This has to be one of my rarest records. I believe it was made as a goof by guys working in the design department at Capitol records Who knows how many were made. It’s dated on the label 1951. I’m assuming it’s them in the cover photo. I wonder who they got to be the corpse?! I’d love to hear from anyone who might know anything about it, though I imagine that’s unlikely. Still, a great cover and right in the spirit of our obsession.
“Turn On!!” “Music for the Hip at Heart” A Xian teen trip.
“Music for Happy People” By the Albimoor Orchestra on Jubilee Records.
Check out the cool “femlin” Party label. “Music for…” (Fill in the blank)
Jimmie Janes, MD and his orchestra plays - “Music For Dancing Doctors” (Editors Note: VIP is the incredible, fantastic illustrator Virgil Partch. Check him out. I’ll be posting more of his lp cover work here too. Thanks, for the note Ben T.)
“Music for Pleasure Time” Allegro. Royale Concert Orchestra. Another budget label release of forgettable background music - aural wallpaper, sonic pablum, muzak - saved from the landfill because of a cover with a strange hook and a simple transcendent beauty.
“Music for Expectant Fathers” Fontanna and his Orchestra
Sonny King. “For Losers Only” Colpix.
Music for Hand-Jiving on London Records. A compilation of hits by Tommy Steele, The Blue Jeans and The Four Jacks, etc.
Hand-Jiving involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps including thigh slapping, cross-wrist slapping, fist pounding, chest slapping and pounding, hand clapping, elbow touching and hitch hike moves. It resembles a highly elaborate version of pat-a-cake. The hand jive was popularized by Johnny Otis’ 1958 hit “Willie and the Hand Jive”. Eric Clapton did a version of the song in 1974 that reached the Top 40.
12 side-splitting his by Hattie Noel and Billy Mitchell. Dootone Novelty Series. I don’t know Billy’s work, but I’d like to learn more based on this photo.
Stubby Kaye. “Music for Chubby Lovers” Seeco. Occasionally you’ll see — as I do now pulling records off the shelf to post here — how I used to insert myself into various cover scenes. This was pre-photoshop obviously.
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