The world's greatest LP album covers, 45s too.
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Kenya Records Presents Od Ogatu “The World’s Fastest Drummer”. This is a beautiful, deep red, snake skin textured cover with gold embossed letters. The songs include “Bongo Heat”, “Devil Dance”, “Virgin Rite” and “Wild Ecstasy.” I think I found a site where you can here this: Click HERE.
walla-walla, bing-bang. African Witch Doctor Chants.
“Macumba” on the Brazilian Sinter label. This is one of the most amazing covers. A real voodoo ritual complete with the rooster blood letting, the live snake, the priestess and her pipe and most disturbingly the man in a trance licking the blood from his hand. I’m spooked to even be writing about it. Curses!
You gotta love the Twinkle record label. “Circus Magic Songs & Fun” Some classic funk here including: “Bunky the Funky Monkey” and “The Talking Flea”. Featuring Lee Stacy, “World Famous Midget” and Billy “The Wonder Boy”
“Spook Stuff for Hallowe’en” “A Haunting 40 Minutes of Scary, Spooky, Stories in Sound”
This 1950’s kiddie record, “The Ever-So-Many Amazing Adventures of Johnny” was put out by Atlantic Records and can play 256 different stories - a different story each time it’s played.
The Paper Dolls on PYE. (Courtesy of Kerstan Reineke of Germany)
Say that ten times fast.
MAGIC FUN! “A Jubilee of Jollities Performed By “Sanford The Great” “Amazing!” “Amusing!”
“A Marvelous Magical Performance Right On The Record!”
eBay remains the easiest way to find the most obscure records now that cd’s have taken over most stores (and they’re on their way out too). The dollar bins, (the source of much of our early collections), have disappeared and so too have the days of picking up a cheap record just for a laugh. Bidding on a record just for the cover isn’t so unusual when anyone in the world can see the same auction and appreciate the same thing. And then there are those who want the record for the music or some other reason. Anyway, what was once just a lark, on eBay is a battle. Bidding can go high as the market for the rarest, most unusual covers has developed among a core group of like-minded, fringe collectors. You can think “no one in the world would want this” and then lose to a guy half-way around the world with money to burn. If only there were a crystal ball to see the final bid, sniping would be so much easier.
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