I was completely stunned when the old covers appeared. They reminded me of some 35 years ago, when I went through the second hand record shops in London. It’s an oasis in this inter net world with so many things jumping into your face you don’t really want to know about.
I will subscribe so I can walk into this room full of ghosts whose music i can still faintly hear. The records have to be scratchy, though.
Great site, what a wonderful artwork!! I’m looking for covers with Volkswagen busses on it. I mean the 60’s and 70’s types. I’ve searched but can’t find one. But there must be some. maybe you can give me a hint.
Found this recently: “So the next time you hear someone shout “Oi! Oi! Oi!” as you’re walking down a city street, chances you’re not hearing a Jew whose car has broken down (that would be “Oy! Oy! Oy vey!”). It’s probably a skinhead, a punk, or just someone who loves the best working class music around…Oi!” This is in response to the Strength Thru Oi! album cover. You have the best site in the world; hopefully I can contribute a photo one day. Good Luck.
Hey, I love this blog and was wondering if you’d post a link to my blog. It’s similar, but wider in focus. retrohound.blogspot.com. I especially like your hot rod album covers.
Matt – This is a note for Tony, who told me to check out this website on his Christmas card (as always, a cinch to pick out of the pile, being the most twisted card received). Am I still into vinyl, he asks? Why else would this year’s Christmas mix be entitled, “Vinyl Mania,” is my answer. I’ll try to send it along in due course — it’s the product of a program my wife and son gave me last Christmas, which allows you to burn your albums to cd, and to my astonishment the sound is pretty good. This is a way cool site, and I will have to spend some time exploring when I have some time; no telling when that might be, alas. Ben
Hi Pam, I’m glad you’re not the only one who enjoys “Potty Art”.
If you’re in a hurry, here are a few Lps you can find pretty easy on Ebay.
“The Models, Remodeling”; “Andre Previn, but, beautiful” and of course, the easy to find “Foreigner’s, Head Games”, which you might already have but forgot. These can get you off to a good start. Finding rare ones will be fun.
How are these fabulous jpgs done? I have loads of old lp’s and covers. Would love to scan to jpegs and upload to your site for other vinyl-philes to enjoy.
Does anyone have a good source for album covers without the records? I know eBay and your local flea market, but are there any online sites that just sell the covers? Thanks for any suggestions.
Dear friends, we’ve been busy transferring LPCoverLover to a new server and making some back end adjustments. We have stacks of great covers ready to be shared on the site and look forward to getting back into the groove shortly. Best, Matthew and Tony
In The STRANGE INSTRUMENT, Blowing in the Wind Entry, the instruments are alphorns (alp + horn), not ALFORN, played in the mountains, a parallel folk development of the hunting horn, related to the modern orchestral horn (French horn). Johannes Brahms included alphorn calls in his first symphony.
In the Asian Pop category you identify the Ann Margret 007 album as being from Thailand, but the writing is Korean. Could you be mistaken about it’s origin?
i see in the comments that one of my questions has been answered, that you don’t sell these images. so why the small image size with watermark? site would be awesome without these annoyances
Interested in Bill Walker, creator of Music To Sell bread By – and the J’s with Jamie who recorded it with members of the CSO under William Stearns Walker’s direction.
Hello! I am new to the site, and am thouroughly enjoying browsing! I have a bunch of covers that I would like to photograph and submit. I need some advice on how to photograph them (lighting, technique..etc) I am not a pro by any stretch, but would like to shoot the best possible with the equipment I have. 10″ inchers are easily scanned, but the 12″inchers dont quite get the entire cover scanned. Would welcom all advice!
This is definitely one of the better sites out there sporting the love of album artwork. I wanted to let you know about an iPhone app that my brother and I developed for sleevefacing. It’s called Sleevefacer and can be found here.
I thought it may be something you’d be interested in, and if you would find it “post-worthy”…well, we would be flattered as well as extremely thankful. It just launched on the app store yesterday.
Once again, thanks for putting together a worthy site for the art of the album cover. Very well done!
I worked on many Riverside,Jazzland Tradition record covers in 1960,1961 being a young 19 year old Photo assistant to Donald Silverstein then at 210 Fifth avenue in NYC. I have just found your website and love it as I never left this
era mentally much “I can’t say it’s been a blast from the past”
A Japanese collection was produced of all the Riverside covers ever made which I own and happy to have been on set and made the prints
for Tough Tenors,& other Johnny Griffin Records,Junior Mance (which won a Variety newspaper album photo of the week award) Monk ,Ida May Cox,Benny Carter, Sonny Red that LP”Breezing” a great cover by the way. What a time of life to be a young photographer.
Prior to my work for Silverstein I had worked with Murray Laden
on a few Jazz albums which used his very cool wife the model
Blair Brown on the cover where she looked like five different women
on just by changing her wigs. I also worked at radio stationWEVD for another photog and went to Birdland often to see Monk.Coltrane,Dizzy Gee & Count Basie with WEVD’s famous live Jazz show run by “Symphony Sid” (Torin). The WEVD building(W 46th St) also housed
Folkways Records, how cool is that?
hey there I think you will love some of these shots from the latest cartes series: http://www.philippanicolebarr.com/
Featuring star cover girl in glamour record shoot by the sea!
Does anyone remember an album from the 70s that had a picture of a pinball machine on the cover and a picture of the same pinball machine exploding on the inside cover or reverse cover???
“Nudity and Pornography:
Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. At the same time, we aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family photos of a child breastfeeding.”
With no warning, Sleeezy Sleeeves gets suspended 1 day for showing a little album cover ‘nip’! What is this, the nineteen fifties???
Frau Baron (von Dusseldorf West Germany) is smiling for our nation is only 235-years YOUNG compared to European nations…We have her records from the 60s – 70s that are ORIGINAL (ROXY MUSIC) and like you stated, the human body – as beautiful as GOD created us in His own image – gets
censored while the garbage and fashions in our society – and on television –
is not for certain mediums…
Yours is a beautiful site for record lovers. You have put a lot of good work into this; it’s very pleasing and entertaining. Please enjoy viewing what I’ve been doing to 45s recently. Not shamelessly self-promoting here; just thought you might like to see them:
Hello,
I am looking for an album my Dad had late 60’s early 70’s which I thought was simply called “Moog”. Unfortunately hundreds of searches have turned up nothing I remember the cover was black and white with only a close up picture of what I thought was a laptop steel guitar. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
I absolutely love this site by the way. A lot of good and hard work here. Many thanks for sharing this 😀
I am interested in using some of the photos of covers posted on this site to derive my own art work on Photoshop, and then ultimately print the designs onto T-shirts for commercial purposes. I understand when using other peoples art work you should seek permission from the original author. I imagine as most of the artwork posted on here is pretty old and world be hard to find the origins. So is it a case i would have to get permission from LPCoverLover for using their photo’s? Can anyone please help and tell me where i would stand on this matter, to avoid falling into any sort of copyright infringements. Thank you
Does anyone know a album cover with a yellow pencil in it? It’s in the right bottom corner. We need an answer within two hours because of a LP quiz!! You would really help us!
Hi I’m trying to find a Rolling Stones album cover which is also just titled Rolling Stones from 1964 black & white picture original, can anyone please help.
hi & thanks for your great site! once i was on a website where the creators not only posted the covers but also the soundfiles to listen to…a lot of exotica records…but i cant find it anymore. does that ring a bell to someone of you guys? would be happy to find it again. thanks!
Kinda wish I had stolen “Christmas on the Ponderosa”, which was in the record library at the public-radio station where I spent 32 years. It certainly deserves a place on this site, right beside the Dan Blocker kiddie classic. I also remember another LP we had, a Hawaiian Christmas extravaganza that included a number called “Here Comes Santa in a Red Canoe”.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Digging this new edition the MOST!
Smithy
June 6th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Congratulations.
I was completely stunned when the old covers appeared. They reminded me of some 35 years ago, when I went through the second hand record shops in London. It’s an oasis in this inter net world with so many things jumping into your face you don’t really want to know about.
I will subscribe so I can walk into this room full of ghosts whose music i can still faintly hear. The records have to be scratchy, though.
Keep it up.
Markus
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
Great site, what a wonderful artwork!! I’m looking for covers with Volkswagen busses on it. I mean the 60’s and 70’s types. I’ve searched but can’t find one. But there must be some. maybe you can give me a hint.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Found this recently: “So the next time you hear someone shout “Oi! Oi! Oi!” as you’re walking down a city street, chances you’re not hearing a Jew whose car has broken down (that would be “Oy! Oy! Oy vey!”). It’s probably a skinhead, a punk, or just someone who loves the best working class music around…Oi!” This is in response to the Strength Thru Oi! album cover. You have the best site in the world; hopefully I can contribute a photo one day. Good Luck.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Regarding the Vince Taylor LP: the coolest thing about it is “Right Behing Me.”
October 25th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
do you sell printed rock album covers, like the beatles, rolling stones, hendriks etc? looking ot use them for a music themed party
October 25th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I don’t Diane. Maybe someone on the site can help you.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Thanks for a delightful site. But, is this the end of the BIG images then?
November 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
this site is so much better with the hi-res scans.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Hey, I love this blog and was wondering if you’d post a link to my blog. It’s similar, but wider in focus. retrohound.blogspot.com. I especially like your hot rod album covers.
December 26th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Way Back – Got the T-shirt order and the fantastic CD! Thanks.
December 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Matt – This is a note for Tony, who told me to check out this website on his Christmas card (as always, a cinch to pick out of the pile, being the most twisted card received). Am I still into vinyl, he asks? Why else would this year’s Christmas mix be entitled, “Vinyl Mania,” is my answer. I’ll try to send it along in due course — it’s the product of a program my wife and son gave me last Christmas, which allows you to burn your albums to cd, and to my astonishment the sound is pretty good. This is a way cool site, and I will have to spend some time exploring when I have some time; no telling when that might be, alas. Ben
January 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.” ???
Moderate however you want. If you think they’re too rough or grammatically incorrect, fix or take them off. It’s your show.
… You have to admit they were funny.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:33 am
LOVE the LP covers.
I am looking for album art that has a bathroom theme. (I am framing them and putting in my bathroom.)
So far, I can only think of: “Beauty and the Beat” by the Go-Gos (the girls are wrapped up in towels, etc.”
Also: The first Mamas and Papas album, when they are all in a bathtub.
I saw the woman in the fur-lined tub on this site — priceless!
Any others???
Thanks!
Pam.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Hi Pam, I’m glad you’re not the only one who enjoys “Potty Art”.
If you’re in a hurry, here are a few Lps you can find pretty easy on Ebay.
“The Models, Remodeling”; “Andre Previn, but, beautiful” and of course, the easy to find “Foreigner’s, Head Games”, which you might already have but forgot. These can get you off to a good start. Finding rare ones will be fun.
Good luck!!!
February 1st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Hey Pam (Pamik27),
Hear’s a “Tub Tease” on ebay right now.
Check out: INDIA ADAMS/RAY MARTIN Comfort Me With Apples.
Have fun!
February 5th, 2009 at 7:36 am
How are these fabulous jpgs done? I have loads of old lp’s and covers. Would love to scan to jpegs and upload to your site for other vinyl-philes to enjoy.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Unfortunately George, I don’t know of a scanner large enough, so I just take photos of my records.
March 15th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Hi,
Does anyone have a good source for album covers without the records? I know eBay and your local flea market, but are there any online sites that just sell the covers? Thanks for any suggestions.
Joe
June 4th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Dear friends, we’ve been busy transferring LPCoverLover to a new server and making some back end adjustments. We have stacks of great covers ready to be shared on the site and look forward to getting back into the groove shortly. Best, Matthew and Tony
June 4th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Glad to hear it.
Thanks!
September 27th, 2009 at 6:46 am
In The STRANGE INSTRUMENT, Blowing in the Wind Entry, the instruments are alphorns (alp + horn), not ALFORN, played in the mountains, a parallel folk development of the hunting horn, related to the modern orchestral horn (French horn). Johannes Brahms included alphorn calls in his first symphony.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
In the Asian Pop category you identify the Ann Margret 007 album as being from Thailand, but the writing is Korean. Could you be mistaken about it’s origin?
BTW, great site!
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:13 pm
i see in the comments that one of my questions has been answered, that you don’t sell these images. so why the small image size with watermark? site would be awesome without these annoyances
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Interested in Bill Walker, creator of Music To Sell bread By – and the J’s with Jamie who recorded it with members of the CSO under William Stearns Walker’s direction.
Can you help me?
I was an adverting guy back in the 1960’s
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
Look up Richard Mantel – he was an art director in the 60’s and worked with the labels – he might know.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:55 am
LPCover Lover is the greatest record site EVER. An invaluable resource, a visual delight, ever humorous, always intriguing, and just damn GREAT!
February 15th, 2011 at 1:33 am
I love this site and am going to do a feature on it in my web magazine. Just thought you’d like to know
July 20th, 2011 at 12:41 am
Great sight. You have an amazing collect. My question to you is “Are any of them for sale?
July 20th, 2011 at 5:46 am
Thanks Robert. We’ll sell records occasionally. Let us know which ones you’re interested in.
July 24th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Hello! I am new to the site, and am thouroughly enjoying browsing! I have a bunch of covers that I would like to photograph and submit. I need some advice on how to photograph them (lighting, technique..etc) I am not a pro by any stretch, but would like to shoot the best possible with the equipment I have. 10″ inchers are easily scanned, but the 12″inchers dont quite get the entire cover scanned. Would welcom all advice!
October 11th, 2011 at 8:24 am
hey matthew,
just want to share this video with you, it´s really a kind of homage to the importance of vinyl covers
http://vimeo.com/29399425
Just tough you would enjoy it
thanks for all your LP covers… its a daily inspiration
Marta
LP Cover Lover
October 14th, 2011 at 8:23 am
This is definitely one of the better sites out there sporting the love of album artwork. I wanted to let you know about an iPhone app that my brother and I developed for sleevefacing. It’s called Sleevefacer and can be found here.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sleevefacer/id471522760?mt=8
I thought it may be something you’d be interested in, and if you would find it “post-worthy”…well, we would be flattered as well as extremely thankful. It just launched on the app store yesterday.
Once again, thanks for putting together a worthy site for the art of the album cover. Very well done!
-Tony
October 26th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
I worked on many Riverside,Jazzland Tradition record covers in 1960,1961 being a young 19 year old Photo assistant to Donald Silverstein then at 210 Fifth avenue in NYC. I have just found your website and love it as I never left this
era mentally much “I can’t say it’s been a blast from the past”
A Japanese collection was produced of all the Riverside covers ever made which I own and happy to have been on set and made the prints
for Tough Tenors,& other Johnny Griffin Records,Junior Mance (which won a Variety newspaper album photo of the week award) Monk ,Ida May Cox,Benny Carter, Sonny Red that LP”Breezing” a great cover by the way. What a time of life to be a young photographer.
Prior to my work for Silverstein I had worked with Murray Laden
on a few Jazz albums which used his very cool wife the model
Blair Brown on the cover where she looked like five different women
on just by changing her wigs. I also worked at radio stationWEVD for another photog and went to Birdland often to see Monk.Coltrane,Dizzy Gee & Count Basie with WEVD’s famous live Jazz show run by “Symphony Sid” (Torin). The WEVD building(W 46th St) also housed
Folkways Records, how cool is that?
October 26th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
To clarify the above, I don’t own all Riverside recording I own the book of the photos of that collection of Riverside Record /Jazz Land covers
February 6th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
hey there I think you will love some of these shots from the latest cartes series: http://www.philippanicolebarr.com/
Featuring star cover girl in glamour record shoot by the sea!
March 11th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Does anyone remember an album from the 70s that had a picture of a pinball machine on the cover and a picture of the same pinball machine exploding on the inside cover or reverse cover???
May 19th, 2012 at 10:05 am
WTF FACEBOOK???
“Nudity and Pornography:
Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. At the same time, we aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family photos of a child breastfeeding.”
With no warning, Sleeezy Sleeeves gets suspended 1 day for showing a little album cover ‘nip’! What is this, the nineteen fifties???
May 20th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Frau Baron (von Dusseldorf West Germany) is smiling for our nation is only 235-years YOUNG compared to European nations…We have her records from the 60s – 70s that are ORIGINAL (ROXY MUSIC) and like you stated, the human body – as beautiful as GOD created us in His own image – gets
censored while the garbage and fashions in our society – and on television –
is not for certain mediums…
May 21st, 2012 at 7:11 am
FREE Sleeezy Sleeeves NOW!
June 4th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Yours is a beautiful site for record lovers. You have put a lot of good work into this; it’s very pleasing and entertaining. Please enjoy viewing what I’ve been doing to 45s recently. Not shamelessly self-promoting here; just thought you might like to see them:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/jukehousegallery
January 24th, 2013 at 2:05 am
Hello,
I remember the cover was black and white with only a close up picture of what I thought was a laptop steel guitar. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
I am looking for an album my Dad had late 60’s early 70’s which I thought was simply called “Moog”. Unfortunately hundreds of searches have turned up nothing
I absolutely love this site by the way. A lot of good and hard work here. Many thanks for sharing this 😀
August 14th, 2013 at 5:20 am
Hello,
I am interested in using some of the photos of covers posted on this site to derive my own art work on Photoshop, and then ultimately print the designs onto T-shirts for commercial purposes. I understand when using other peoples art work you should seek permission from the original author. I imagine as most of the artwork posted on here is pretty old and world be hard to find the origins. So is it a case i would have to get permission from LPCoverLover for using their photo’s? Can anyone please help and tell me where i would stand on this matter, to avoid falling into any sort of copyright infringements. Thank you
March 28th, 2014 at 2:22 pm
Does anyone know a album cover with a yellow pencil in it? It’s in the right bottom corner. We need an answer within two hours because of a LP quiz!! You would really help us!
April 20th, 2014 at 1:33 pm
I love going through all these old album covers, it’s like digging for gold. So many new things to discover.
May 11th, 2014 at 10:42 am
Hi I’m trying to find a Rolling Stones album cover which is also just titled Rolling Stones from 1964 black & white picture original, can anyone please help.
March 25th, 2015 at 11:54 am
Does anyone know where to buy just covers online besides amazon and ebay
March 25th, 2015 at 1:22 pm
I have to think salvation army stores or dollar bins at any junk shop or used record store Steve.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:19 pm
luv your site!
February 25th, 2016 at 4:18 pm
hi & thanks for your great site! once i was on a website where the creators not only posted the covers but also the soundfiles to listen to…a lot of exotica records…but i cant find it anymore. does that ring a bell to someone of you guys? would be happy to find it again. thanks!
May 29th, 2018 at 1:39 am
Camp House Concerts here! We loved your page so much that we added it to our blog! Fantastic site!
The link is https://camphouseconcerts.com/2018/05/29/unique-music-website-lp-cover-lover/
January 6th, 2020 at 3:10 pm
I own the Monster Shindig LP, but do not have it’s cover. Do you sell covers, or know where I can get one?
May 29th, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Kinda wish I had stolen “Christmas on the Ponderosa”, which was in the record library at the public-radio station where I spent 32 years. It certainly deserves a place on this site, right beside the Dan Blocker kiddie classic. I also remember another LP we had, a Hawaiian Christmas extravaganza that included a number called “Here Comes Santa in a Red Canoe”.