I love finding the same photo or model and photo shoot used on different covers.   Sometimes they are covers from different country that got the photo from some stock photo house.   Sometime it’s the same budget label using the same photo on various releases of their own.   I guess to save money.   Anyway, I’ll show you this cover shot on another lp when I put my hands on it.   This stands on it’s own for style just the same.

(12 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Lee Morgan Sextet  Lee Morgan  Blue Note

(27 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)

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Dexter Blows Hot and Cool  Dexter Gordon  Dootone Records  This is high art.   The photographer is Hermann Leonard who shot most jazz legends beginning in the 1940’s. I met him once in the eighties. Nice guy. A lot of his photos include the curling smoke of a musician’s cigarette. This is a famous shot of Dexter Gordon on the rare Dootone label.  A beautiful cover for a beautiful jazz record.

(16 votes, average: 4.75 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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Meet the Beatles!  The Beatles  Capitol Records

(32 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)

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