Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs


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Mood swing

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“Happy Am I”   Songs by Little Marcy   Word Records   ($2.98 only)   Crazy Christian ventriloqist doll with sales in the millions!

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From the cutout bin

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“Boys!   Boys!   Boys!”   A Vocal Spectacular   Tops Records   A sweet compilation of boy singers

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Fausto, pussy cat!

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Ann-Margret strikes a stunning pose on the cover of this lost gem from Japan.   Faust(o) Papetti   “Alto Sax Screen Time”   Globe Records

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Yvonne go gay?

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Yvonne and the Sparklers sings “Let’s Go Gay” and “A Go-Go”   (Thanks again to Margaret)

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I kid you not

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“Young Boys Organ Music” (From China courtesy of Lp cover lover, Margaret Still)

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Objet d’artes

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Another Philips Records cover designed by the great photographer and designer Paul Huf.   Massenet Scenes Pittoresque/Scenes Alsaciennes by L’ Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and Jean Fournet, Leitung.

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Hand jive turkeys

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“Today’s Top Hits” by the HOMESTEAD (?) on Homestead Records (of course) 1979   Featuring bad recreations of chart toppers of the day, like Randy Newman’s “Short People,” one of the greatest politically incorrect songs of all time.

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Short people

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Sweet Linda Divine   “I’ll Say It Again” Columbia Records (1970)   I’ll say it again, the best beat diggers know that this has some funky cuts.

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The eyes have it

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I had this album as a kid.   A great example of how a pretty girl can sell a cover and how a cover can sell an lp.   The music is great and I would never have known at 14 if not for those “angel eyes”   Dave Brubeck Quartet “Angel Eyes” Columbia Records

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Clap your hands say yeah!

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“Hully Gully”   The Angels

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