“Loaded”   A 1945 Savoy Records jazz session date with West Coasters Vido Musso, Kai Winding, Eddie Safranski, Boots Mussulli, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.

“Kiddin’ on the Keys”   Bengt Hallberg Trio   Karusel Records   Swedish jazz.

“Surf Ride”   Savoy   Featuring Art Pepper and an all-star west coast jazz band.   (1954)   Another example of incongruous cover art.

Girls and records!   Chicks and music.   The following collection of photos was inspired by our friends at   Stupefaction who got us to thinkin’ that we’d also like to have a gallery of LP-lovin’ ladies with records and record players too.   If you find one please send it in and we’ll add it here!   (As most of these photos have been found or contributed without proper credit, if you know the photographer, model, rights holder or original source please let us know.)

Records make Stephanie smile.  She makes us smile too!

The quintessential chick digs records!!   Here’s pin-up queen Bettie Page dropping the needle on a stack of 45’s!   We’re guessing it’s a swinging, hip-grinding, rump-rolling selection to get everyone in the mood.

Chchcherie Bomb!

Lovely LP Cover Lover pin-up calendar girl with records

Bogie’s beauty – Lauren Bacall makes our head spin too.

Chicks who va-va voooom

Thanks Mel for finding “The Record Player” from 1939 by Karl Hofer, German (1878-1955)   (Property of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)

Mamie!   How we love ya, how we love ya, dear old Mamie!

Of all the Playboy Playmates (not including our LPCL Playmates), Donna Michell will always be my favorite (and I didn’t even know she dug records).   Thanks to Bob at Retro Hound for reminding me.

Twist it, Babe!

Baby work out!

Another from the indefatigable Farbror-sid.com (via fast Eddie)

Is it a hat box or a portable record player?   Ask 1930’s hoofer, Ruby Keeler!

“This little girl is obviously thrilled with her record player.   Yet it is probably the lowest “fi” possible – she has to turn it by hand.”

Always let your girl pick the music.

French chanteuse Juliette Greco (from Boris Vian’s illustrated Manual of St Germain des Pres).

Why get up?

Look who’s got the Fever for records!   Peggy Lee!

You don’t NEED a record player to listen to your albums.   I guess.

Record head!

Marianne Faithful DIGS records by The Faces and Bach too.

Pattie (Mrs. Harrison then Mrs. Clapton) digs the fab four!

This is how Mel does it!

Date Night!

Amazing.   Bardot digging records!!   C’est bon! (Thanks Eddie)

A turkey and a turntable in every kitchen!   (From WFMU’s Beware the Blog!)

Chicks dig records undressed and

in dresses too.

Oui oui, that is Catherine Deneuve digging some old 45’s

Bobby Gentry digs records like “Ode to Billie Joe”

Rose McGowan is goin’ old school diggin’ LPs with her pooch.   What an amazing portable turntable!   Looks like it was made by a car company!   Can anyone identify the maker and model?

“BamBoo!” by Chris Watson

Oh look!   There’s Loretta Young having a smoke and a spin.

Mel sent me this cool English Beat chick!

Lovely Rita Hayworth poses with yet another Hollywood player.

A black and white candid of colored-vinyl lovers

Car dreams!

Shredding singles in the garage.

Golden girl with a Decca 45

“It’s your move”   Rake magazine from January 1962

Deborah Harry listens to records.

Put something good on.

The look of love.

Sorry Tony, LP Cover Lover wants chicks who dig records!

Will the REAL Judy Garland please stand up and put on a record?

 

Romy Shneider in Boccacio ’70 digs this record a lot

Woody Herman indeed.

“Lush” “Exquis” “Swoony”

We dig Chloe Sevigny flipping sides!

After the dance, in the wee hours, Martha considers something slow and romantic.   She also considers calling for a pizza delivery.

Hollywood actress Jean Simmons (“Hamlet”, “Guys and Dolls”) sidles up to big-ass Victrola for some leisure time listening.

Another little something from Mel in Wellington!

Caterina Valente sits on nice jazz records!

What a smile!

From Farbror-sid.com

Thanks to Eddie who keeps finding these!   “With so much else to boast about (wink wink), Carole Singleton invariably boasts of her record collection and the wide variety of selections always at her disposal”   REALLY?!

Some guys dream of chicks who dig records!

Lp Cover Lover, Ink

Peggy King sits and listens to records.   Dig that!

LP frisbee lover

Nickie says that she’s a “card carrying chick that digs records” and she has a cool site to prove it – Imperfect Like Us.

Help I’ve fallen and can’t get up.       Why is this kind of a pose so appealing?

Thanks Fred!

Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

Illustration by Serge Clerc, from an old issue of NME magazine.

Christine Aguilera is just another chick that digs records

From the collection of E. Gorodetsky.

The girl can’t help it, she digs vinyl!   Mamie Van Doren strikes a familiar pose.

Thanks to Fred (via Asterisks) for this lovely entry into Chicks Dig Records.   Marlene Deitrich here gives us her singular take on this familiar pose and set up.

Sophia Loren reviews photo shoot contact sheets while listening to some vinyl – in her bedroom no less.

Marilyn in another from a photo session with the great Philip Halsman

Marilyn Monroe is dreamy, digging records.

Zooey Daschenel digs records.   And we dig her.

One good spin deserves another!     Thanks Mel.

Our kind of laptop.

Tiffany and Courtney spinning 7″ records

Play it again, Sam   You played it for her, now play it for me. (Niagra, 1953)

Chicks dig records.   And coke.

Some chicks dig Pepsi though.

I’m a pepper, you’re a pepper, she digs records and is a pepper too!

Chicks love Cash

Megan Fox digs records…oh my god.   Mark Seliger photo, Rolling Stone.

Blonde on Blonde

Nice rack!

This lovely lady browsing in the pop section of her local record store was found at the always entertaining RetroSpace.

Photo by Lena Modigh

The man who thought his wife was a turntable.   (Courtesy of Eddie Gorodetsky)

Put those away!   There are records all over the floor.

Winona digs old records

Nicely stacked records

Natalie Wood digs records, but doesn’t care for them properly.   Photo by   Murray Garrett

And the flip side!

Gigi over the holidays.

Joanie Labine, the first female DJ at the Whiskey (circa 1965)

Lindsey at the wheels

Dusty Springfield digs records (and chicks who dig records)

Billie Holiday digs records.

Judy Garland digs records more than Micky Rooney!

So does Brenda Lee.

Joan Collins used to dig records

Another photo of Joan Collins relaxing at home with her collection (courtesy of Tim at Stupefaction)

Lookin’ for love in a dusty groove.

Singer Pat O’day digs records

Thanks Fred.

“This next love song is dedicated to LP Cover Lover.”

Andrea digs swinging singles

Tina Louis digs records (Courtesy of belestrange)

Yes, Yes, Yes!

Singles night (Another vinyl-loving babe lifted from Stupefaction and the original “Chicks Dig Vinyl”).   This is Ellen von Unwerth, a world renowned fashion photographer, model, filmmaker.

Blonde on Blonde on Blonde

This girl should have an LP Cover Lover T-shirt – let us know if you know her.

Kirsten Dunst in Virgin Suicides doesn’t want to torch her records!

Thanks to Mike Gassman, lp cover lover and graphic designer, for sending this one in.

The last few courtesy of Way Back Now! Lets Go…

“I’m sure you’ll really dig this hard swingin’, jazzy, up-tempo groover”

Silk stockings and vinyl.

It’s Andrea’s fault.

Via Bebelestrange.

“I have more records just like this one upstairs in my room…”

Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

After looking for a while, you’ll eventually notice some records in the background!

Sometimes dreams DO come true!

Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

Betty and Veronica dig The Beatles.

Baby workout!   Thanks Mel!

Gidget takes the Downbeat Blindfold Test.   Is it Stan Getz or Zoot Sims?

I think she’s turning Japanese.

The one above came in from Jen who writes the blog Eye Eat Music

Look it’s Audrey Hepburn diggin’ records!

LP Cover Lover delivers!

Photos of Cici James (a new singer on the indie-soul scene) taken by Jacob Blickenstaff

Pet sounds

One of Mel’s belles.

Daydreamnin’ and I’m thinking of you

Gloria Swanson plays the blues in “Sadie Thompson” (1928)

Ciao Bello!   Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice, 1949

Thanks to LP cover lover Eddie for finding this and to whomever did the art.

Courtesy of RetroRaunch.com

Nipper and his chick dig records.   78’s.

Is this Bjork flippin’ the racks?

Chicks dig records in big piles.

Look who’s playing records on this average suburban evening?   Not Dad, he’s getting stoned.   Not Junior, he’s planning his escape to a rave after midnight.   Not Mom, she’s been in the same position for two days.

What a stunner!!       Thanks to Eddie G. for finding Jean Jani, Miss July  1957 above!

A Playmate with Jimi Hendrix, snoopy and all that God gave her.

This LP-loving, sun-worshipping Playmate Centerfold digs records SO much that she wouldn’t even consider bringing her transister radio to the beach.   (And yes, I am disturbed to see such miscare and blatant disregard for the preservation of these LPs)

“Dig It!”   Bill Evans   Fontana Records (French)   A compilation of tracks from the albums “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”, “New Jazz Conceptions” and “Portrait in Jazz”, each originally issued on Riverside in the late fifties.   One of a series of Jazz reissues that each featured a different hip chick posing in front of a jazz legend.   Search the site for Fontana and see others listed here.   Tracks include:   I Love You / Easy Living / Displacement / Waltz For Debby / Autumn Leaves / Someday My Prince Will Come / Tenderly / What Is There To Say? / Oleo

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Stephanie says … “I love LP Cover Lover on a Saturday afternoon”.

Welcome Stephanie to our little group!  She’s super sweet and silly and lots of fun to listen to records with!  More from her soon.

Photo by:  Mirco Pasqualini!    Hair and Make-up by:  Courtney Cosmetics

Meet Courtney another LP Cover Lover.   Courtney is a DJ.     She has a huge collection and loves swapping sides.   She’s a doll and as sweet as she looks.

Courtney eats vinyl for breakfast.

This is Tiffany.   She’s an LP Cover Lover too. She enjoys going to record fairs, sitting on the floor and flipping through boxes of dollar records.   She loves cool covers, Northern Soul and the Stooges.   She loves making mixed tapes.   Tiffany is a real peach.

Here’s Andrea.   Andrea has been a fan of LP Cover Lover for years.   And we’re a fan of her too.   She’s into crazy covers, bachelor pad and lounge music.   She’s beautiful on the inside and the outside.

Andrea gets off on covers like this one by Jimmy Getzoff.

Look what Santa brought!

The original Lp Cover Lover girl, Lindsey.   Lindsey can’t get enough.   She’ll play records and drink wine all night.

Lovely Lindsey and a tastey Stones 45.

Lindsey hones in on the Jazz collection and considers Hank Mobley for a little dinner music tonight.

Thanks to Chelsea for sending this in.  She says she’s been a fan of LPCL for years.  She’s smokin’.

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All photos taken by Seth Olenick

“Mr. Swing”   Harry “Sweets” Edison   Verve Records     I admit it.   I love Sweets!   Can’t get enough.   Illustration by David Stone Martin.   Here’s a classic Sweets Edison.   This and the Verve album “The Swinger”, both recorded during the same 1958 session has tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest joining Edison in the quintet’s frontline while pianist Jimmy Jones, bassist Joe Benjamin, drummer Charlie Persip, and rhythm guitarist Freddie Greene make up the rhythm section. (You can get both LP’s on a single Verve CD.)   Edison (who died of prostate cancer on July 27, 1999, at 83 years of age) was one of the acknowledged masters of swing trumpet.   His trumpet was a recognizable voice in the Count Basie Orchestra from 1938 until it broke up in 1950.   During that period, he was featured on many records, appeared in the 1944 short “Jammin’ the Blues” and gained his nickname “Sweets” (due to his tone) from Lester Young.   In the 1950s, Edison toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic, settled in Los Angeles, and was well-featured both as a studio musician (most noticeably on Frank Sinatra records) and on jazz dates. He had several reunions with Count Basie in the 1960s and by the ’70s was often teamed with Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis; Edison also recorded an excellent duet album for Pablo with Oscar Peterson. One of the few swing trumpeters to be influenced by Dizzy Gillespie, Sweets led sessions through the years for Pacific Jazz, Verve, Roulette, Riverside, Vee-Jay, Liberty, Sue, Black Blue, Pablo, Storyville, and Candid among others. Although his playing faded during the 1980s and ’90s, Edison could still say more with one note than nearly anyone.

“Coffee and Jazz”   Brazilian Jazz Quartet   Columbia Brazil

The great photographer William Claxton passed away this week.   His work captured most of the musical legends of the mid-Twentieth Century and appeared on many Pacific and Contemporary album covers.   Working from the West Coast, he often brought his subjects out of the dark nightclubs they inhabited and into the California sun.   For example, this very un-jazzlike shot of Sonny Rollins on “Way Out West” for Contemporary Records (1957)   With Shelly Manne and Ray Brown.

“Electric Music To Blow Your Mind By!!!”   “A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine”   On Design Records.   (1968)   An ordinary vintage organ groove sound with freaky electronics on top of it. For lovers of the Free Pop Electronic Concept and Animated Egg, this is a groovy collection of cheesey ’60s psychedelia loaded with over-the-top electronic effects and jazzy go-go freak-outs.