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


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Perchance to

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“Dream” with the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra.   Aptly on the Fantasy Records label. The typography, the lighting, her figure and the spareness of the room all add up to a kind of simple elegance on this cover.

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Bizet marquee

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Bettie Page – The “Carmen” cover.   On the Acorn budget label.     One of just three Bettie covers from the late fifties/early sixties.

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Monkey time off

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The Lex Golden Jazz Octet in HI-FI

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Hungry like the wolf

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“One Night of Love…!” Daniel De Carlo Decca Records.   Here’s the image of the classic American bachelor, the cad, the swinging hipster, the wolf on the prowl.   All the signs of trouble were there when she arrived.

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Cross fire

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Bezerra Da Silva. Thanks for sending this Kyle!

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Miss Peach

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“Miss Peach” also Michael Finnegan and Dorothy Olsen “The Singing Schoolteacher”. Based on the famous comic strip. A .49 RCA single. This is credited “New York Herald Tribune, Inc.” and signed by the artist “Mell”.

(Editor’s Note: Mell is Mell Lazarus, the cartoonist and creator of two long-running syndicated comic strips, Miss Peach (1957 – 2002) and Momma (1970 – present))

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Bareback

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This cover really stands out. It’s a hand-tinted photo. Even the label “Duarte” is written by hand. A Caballo! (Edit: “On Horseback!) by Orquesta Neno Gonzalez. The full-figured model in the leopard-skin bikini rides side-saddle and seems small in comparison to the horse. She’s posed almost the way a circus or carnival act might pose. A nice composition as the roofs come down to meet her and off to the right a hand holds the reins to lead her out of the frame. I believe that this is Mexican.

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Tina fey

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Eddy Cabrera IS Tina.

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Yeech!

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She gives cheesecake a bad name!

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Record store Elvis

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Elvis for Everyone!   Including Ann Margret and Nipper.

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