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Starlets and Pin-ups

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Midnight Jayne

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Here’s another rare Jayne Mansfield cover from Japan.  “Smashing Hit Parade”  Various Artists  Union Records  Jayne Mansfield is the most collectable record cover model.  Even if Bettie Page is the quintessential pin-up queen, she only has three covers and while Bridgette Bardot has many more (she actually sings on some of them), the Jayne Mansfield covers from the US, Japan, South America, etc. are all great.  This is one I just found, helping to fill out my still growing collection.  (Search for Jayne to see some others!)

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Raquel, Raquel

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Raquel Welch on the cover of Grandes Exitos Del Cine  Volume 4  Music by Orquesta Dimitri Papadopoules  (Spain) .

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Salut!

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Wow! This is a cool one that we just picked up.  That’s Jane Fonda in a Barbarella-like space suit on the cover of “Weekend Party” – an orchestra ez-listening record.  This is from France.  On the National Records label.

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LPCoverLover Auction Ends Soon

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Auction ends tomorrow, Sunday Night, May 31st! 

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Sex. On the beach.

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Top:  Rare Italian soundtrack  SEXY  Below:  Sophia Loren graces this cover of Musique Tropicale pour Brunir  Henry Leca and his Orchestra   Barclay Records  Both up for sale on eBay this weekend along with 100 other cool, collectible records from the LP Cover Lover archives.  Auction starts THIS Sunday, May 24th at 9PM.  Search for seller innerears

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Sweet lady Jayne

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“GRANDES TEMAS DEL CINE”   Obscure unique Mexican JAYNE MANSFIELD cheesecake cover.  GRANDES ORQUESTAS CINEMATOGRAFICAS   Scarce original mexican pressing in a lovely low-cut gown cheesecake cover.

 

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Latin (with an Irish) Twist

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LP cover lover, Jeff Missinne and Jerold Kress, of the web site The Crown Records Story  provided us with this:  “Latin Twist”  Louis Martinellie and the Continentals  Crown Records.  Most interesting because the model here is 50’s pin-up queen and TV’s Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Irish McCalla.  Hard to tell from the photo (looks a little like one of the Mary Tyler Moore covers), but below is a  behind-the-scenes photo of the Latin Twist cover session courtesy of Sean McIntyre (Irish McCalla’s son).

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Jerold Kress ID’d the two guys in the photo; left in suit w/cigarette is Joe Bihari of Crown Records; right in shirtsleeves is Joseph (or Josef) Tauber, photographer.  “Photo from the estate of Irish McCalla, and McCalla Enterprises, Inc.” (McCalla Enterprises, incidentally, was a company Irish and her sister started in the 70’s to merchandise prints and ceramic plates of Irish’s work as a painter and illustrator.  Her talent was as impressive as her beauty, and friends who met her said she was also one of the nicest folks around.)  Thanks Jeff, Jerold and Sean!

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Tiger, tiger

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Eternal sex kitten Ann-Margret poses (with another cool cat) on this sweet Japanese single  that I just picked up!

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The beach is back

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Philips record compilation from France with a cut by Brigitte Bardot.  Nice cheesecake cover with portable turntable from the 1960’s.

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A perfect 8 1/2

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Photo by Jerry Schatzburg     (Blonde on Blonde outtake)

My newest, favorite sexy starlet, Italian actress Claudia Cardinale.  A poor man’s Sophia Loren?  A rich man’s dream?  I first saw her in the western The Professionals with Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin.  She was also in Fellini’s 8 1/2 and the Pink Panther with Peter Sellers (who also recorded with and loved Sophia Loren btw).  Her photo was also featured on Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde album,  then it was removed making the original issues more valuable.  Anyway, she’s beautiful and it’s nice to see her on the cover of this Japanese record.  Perhaps a scene from one of her films?  Can anyone help with that?

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