“LP Cover Lover” is a great site! I really enjoy it. Maybe you can use this little gem from Germany. There’s no year on it, but I guess it’s from the early sixties. “Tanzmusik fà ¼r die reife Jugend” means “Dance Music For The Mature Youth”. The picture on the cover shows how much fun the mature youth is having. The music is played by “Karlchen’s Ballhaus-Rhythmiker”. You could translate it with “Little Carl’s Dance Hall Rhythmicians” . They surely know their foxtrot, tango, polka, waltz, and even samba! There are many gorgeous details. The booze in the foreground, the windmill on the painting in the background, the fancy black dress of the woman in the foreground. The dancing couple… Wouldn’t we all like to be invited to such a party?”   Regards, Jan Derrer (Switzerland)

(21 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)

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Thanks to Laura Levine for this very cool one (that I’ve never seen): “Thought you might enjoy this one. (Brooklyn!) At first I thought it must be a Harvey cover as well, but the credit on the back cover reads PANCHO PACHECO. (?)“

(29 votes, average: 2.69 out of 5)

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German composers Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab (recording as Vampires’ Sound Incorporation) created this groovy soundtrack to accompany Director Franco’s freaked-out vision. “Their crazy sounds are a speed-hopped swinger’s bash of blaring trumpet, booming trombone, slinky organ, and spacy sitar, with a beefy foundation of mod guitar, bass, and drums.” This was included in a 1995 reissue by Crippled Dick records called “Vampiros Lesbos” and became an underground hit.

(44 votes, average: 4.07 out of 5)

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Beautiful.   Like a German expressionist painting.   Lotte Lenya was married to Kurt Weill who wrote “Three Penny Opera” with Bertolt Brecht.   Lotte played the main role of Jenny in the original staging.   Fyi, she was also in the movie “From Russia With Love”.   Thanks again to Kerstan for sending this in.

(13 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

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Anything on Dig Records is cool.   “Wiggin with Wig” The Gerald Wiggin’s Trio.   I think Johnny Otis started the Dig Label and he’s the producer here.

(25 votes, average: 3.36 out of 5)

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“Chispa Candela” On the rare Miami Records label. This one’s a beauty. Right off the front of a classic men’s mag from the fifties.

(23 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)

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“A little bit of LATIN, and a little bit of JAZZ” Ronnie Neuman at the Padded Cell. Rare Latin Jazz lp on Soma Records. The Padded Cell was a Minneapolis nightclub and restaurant known for it’s charburger and experimental jazz. This cover was featured in the “Incredibly Strange Music” books.

(28 votes, average: 3.93 out of 5)

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Uncle “D” Talks with Charlie and Sheila.

(31 votes, average: 2.81 out of 5)

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Politically incorrect cover #12,356. “Yakety Saki Man in Orbit’ by the (not-so-) honorable Bill Fraser! On the Maestro Label. Super rare and absolutely crazy. Must be early sixties.

(29 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5)

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