LPCover Lover » Wanted Records http://lpcoverlover.com The World's Greatest LP Album Covers, 45's too Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:16:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Take it off! Take it off! http://lpcoverlover.com/2011/09/20/take-it-off-take-it-off/ http://lpcoverlover.com/2011/09/20/take-it-off-take-it-off/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:50:28 +0000 lpcoverlover http://lpcoverlover.com/?p=16525

La Mascara Que Canta!  RCA Mexico    This reminds me of DeNiro as boxer Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull” – over-the-hill and washed up, reciting poetry at a strip club.

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“Delirium in HI-FI”   Elsa Popping and Her Pixieland Band   Fontana Records (Philips Records)   AUSTRALIA     Recorded “somewhere in France, “Elsa Popping” is actually French arranger-conductor Andre Popp and sound effects wizard Pierre Fatosme.   Cover Art:   Morris Tookey

Here’s the latest, greatest LP cover I have to get a copy of.     Here’s a $100 bounty for anyone down under (or elsewhere) that can find me a copy!   (This one is Tony’s and that’s just unbearable)   Here’s the more common U.S. cover on Columbia:

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“Afro Soco Soul”   by Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats   Featuring “Born To Be Free”   EMI Records (Nigeria) (1972) Sierra Leonian originators of afro-funk who settled in Nigeria in the late 60s and recorded three lps  - this being the first.

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Here’s the soundtrack EP for Josephine Siao’s 1967 film The Golden Cat (飛賊金絲貓), another one of her sadly unavailable “Jane Bond” movies. (Pathe/EMI Records)   (China)     “Hear this at Soft Film and Explore the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.”

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“Music From a Millionaires’ Playground”   EMI Records

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Yeu Jow Record   (Courtesy of James Dillon)

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Romao Felix   “Parafuso in England” Fontana Records     Portugese singer Romão Félix as his black-faced alter-ego, Parafuso.     You can find more Parafuso covers here.   (Thanks to Lp cover lover, Paulo in Portugal)

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“Dance, Oh Pretty Woman”   The Hipster Singers   Gala Des Varietes Records   (France)     A great exploito pop comp from mid-sixties France.     The cigs and plastic on the floor, the sleeping pup, the bare stocking feet …

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Bottom:   “Destination Moon”   The Ames Brothers   RCA Records.   Top:   From Argentina on Camden RCA

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… or just a pet project?   “School Book For Dogs”   Created by Beth Brown (Famous Author of Books on Dogs)   Narrated by Pat Connell   Regent Records

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