This is here because I like Laura Nyro and it’s a very rare alternate cover to her album New York Tenderberry from 1968. I’m not clear on the genesis of the cover that got released to the public, but this photo is on the inside of that gatefold version. Apparently some copies were distributed with this cover slick before Columbia caught the mistake. There are many rare, alternate, pasted over or withdrawn album covers (sometimes due to error, sometimes due to censorship) throughout the fifty year history of the lp. Think Beatles butcher cover. I’ll be posting others.

Amazing how many lps were put out with cool hot rod, dragster, car covers and the “sounds” of the racetrack. No music or anything, just the sounds of racecar engines, screaming tires and shifting gears and such. But the packaging shows some pretty cool cars that deserve a place in my cover collection.

“She will be mine!”

Ann Arbor, Michigan.   1963.   High school.   That’s Jim Osterberg, er, “Iggy” Pop on drums on the far right.     Maybe this is where he got the nickname “Iggy”.