Here’s “Disco Lady” and some other paperbacks from long ago that feature LPs on the covers.  “Turning the crowd on with hot sounds was her way of making a living”

“But all the glitters is not gold!”

“Dock workers and stevedores … five bucks a ride.”

They were “wracked with lusts and damned to dance”!

MARSHA, MARSHA, MARSHA!

Muddy Water holding his first recording.  Recorded by Alan Lomax. Waters later told Rolling Stone:  “He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house, and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody’s records.  Man, you don’t know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Later on he sent me two copies of the pressing and a check for twenty bucks, and I carried that record up to the corner and put it on the jukebox. Just played it and played it and said, ‘I can do it, I can do it.’”

Rock and Roll can save your soul

2,500 fans can’t be wrong!

The Cure?

Iggy Pop breaking more records

Gene Deitch, cover illustration!

Jean-Michel Basquiat

THE BOOM CASE!

The Undisputed Tooth (via)

My girl.

Russian revolutions

He’ll be doing this the rest of his life.

Sometimes labels do apply.

My pad or yours?

Burning Rubber Soul

A giant version of Tom Waits’ 2006 album Orphans:   Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastardshas been created as part of a unique art installation in   London. The Portobello RECollection opened last week on the Portobello Road in West London, transforming a 100 m long wall into a giant record collection charting the musical influences of the neighborhood. Artists Natasha Mason and Teresa Crawley asked residents for their input on which records they would like to see represented. The result is a colorful celebration of the neighborhood’s musical heritage prominently featuring Waits acclaimed three CD/7 album set . The installation is scheduled to be in place for six months, so get your picture taken with a giant Tom Waits album while you can.

James Dean.   James Dean.

Marlon (and Tito?)

I never wondered, but good to know.

Slim Gaillard and Bam Brown examined their Atomic Records release – Atomic Cocktail

Tony’s Birthday Cake from the ladies in the office!!   Sweeet!

The King digs records too!!

Eat TO the beat.   Don’t EAT the beat!

Courtesy of Way Back Now! Lets Go!

Serge Gainsborough listens.

Turntable for five from DJ Mel James.

Brian Jones – just another fan at home catching up on the latest 45’s!

Cassius Clay checking out the latest from Sam Cooke (I like to imagine).

John listens

This one above is from an amazing site we just found called Vinyles Passion.   Check it out for much more of what we like!

Doesn’t this look like fun?   Now you can put yourself into one of your favorite LPCoverLover covers over at FunFaceCam.com. Check it out.   You’ll see yourself in a whole new light.   For better or worse.

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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)

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An actual story in sound of “A Dog’s Life” as broadcast on CBS Radio Workshop. Conceived and recorded by Tony Schwartz. Folkways Records. 1958.

I had the rare priviledge of meeting and getting to know Tony Schwartz. Once again, my search for records led me to an experience I’ll never forget. Tony responded to an ad of mine that said I buy records. I didn’t know who he was at first, but based on his description of his collection over the phone, I made a date to visit his home on the upper west side of Manhattan.

Entering his three-story brownstone was like going into a vault that had been filled over the past fifty years with a lifetime of recordings, recording equipment, books, magazines, artwork, awards and more. File cabinets and rows of boxes packed in tall metal shelving units turned the main floor into a recording studio and home office. Scrolls of audio tape hung from clothes lines criss-crossing the room. A world of sound bites hanging like flypaper strips.

Because he has suffered from agoraphobia his entire adult life, Tony has rarely strayed far from his home and this home production office. Due to this fear of leaving home, he began to trade audio tapes with pen pals and like-minded amateurs recording sounds from their daily lives — girls skipping rope and singing schoolyard songs, taxi drivers’ ranting, slave songs, South American frogs croaking, street performers (I think Tony was one of the first to record Moondog), and more from countries around the world.

Tony’s record collection was on the third floor and it was legendary! It included many fifties Folkways records, incredible sound effect and sound library records, spoken word records – from Eldridge Cleaver to Alan Ginsburg to Tony’s friend and co-writer Marshall McLuhan. Tony’s collection also included lots of international and world music records and, strangely perhaps, many sixties rock and psych records by groups such as The Mothers, The Fugs and The Chocolate Watchband. I spent many hours and days absorbing this collection and discovering recordings I never new existed.

Even after buying Tony’s collection, I returned to visit with Tony, his wife and son and to just listen to the amazing stories that Tony told about a life dedicated to education and to bringing integrity and art to radio and TV advertising for the past fifty years. I urge you to read about Tony and his amazing life and career. He has done as much as anyone to use media to affect positive change in the world. He has created some of the most effective public service advertising ever. Around this time, Tony invited me to a tribute to him at the Museum of Broadcasting.

I’ve added a category for Tony Schwartz’s records on the site will continue to post his records in the future.

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My friend Tony and I are record collectors and we especially love finding old records with crazy, beautiful, sexy, funny, shocking, provocative, absurd, tacky covers. We search flea markets, salvation armies, house sales, stoop sales, garbage cans and, when we can find them, record stores that still sell vinyl. After 30 years of doing this, we kind of feel like we’ve seen everything, but still we search for that new old record with a cover we just can’t believe. eBay, while having effectively killed the used record stores we grew up loving, has opened up a world of records from other countries that we probably would not have seen otherwise. Tony and I spend far to much time (and money) on eBay clicking around for record covers that hit that sweet spot.

We’ve actually organized our lp collections into cover categories like “cartoons” and “cheesecake” and “beatniks”; even “dolls” and “monsters” and “big heads.” So we’re getting it together to show you the highlights and low points of our obsessive habit. To show you record covers that you don’t see everywhere else. Covers that might otherwise be lost to the junk heap of history.

We’ll also include some covers that are recognized as icons of graphic design and influencers of style. Covers that are quintessential in their own way and that are timeless and “cool.”

In beginning to put this blog together, we’ve also discovered on the internet how many others around the world share our love of album covers and our “inside” joke. So we’re hoping to connect with them and you and provide links to those related sites and blogs that we’ve found.

We owe a debt to those collectors and dealers who have turned us on to many of our most treasured albums, including the late Jack “Beabopa” Brown, the very much alive Will Louviere of Show and Tell Music, our buddy Otis 45, OZ, “Bollywood” Edo in The Netherlands, Preston Peek of Vinyl Lives! and others. And thanks to Fred Seibert for encouraging us to share our collections online and for showing us how.

When I’m not playing with records, I own an event marketing and promotion agency in New York City. You can contact me at matt82pies@gmail.com

Check out Matthew’s full story here on Dust and Grooves!

Tony in his office with a cool vintage Philips poster.

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#1 If you carefully scrub that front slick with Simple Green sprayed on a soft cloth, I bet most of that dark rub-wear comes off. Ancient record dealer secret, makes VG an EX. Next lesson “invisible tape repair.”  – Otis

#2 A handy tip for warped lps:

ingredients:

1 warped lp

2 sheets of glass (must be larger than the lp diameter)

3. a sunny day

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