“Um Natal Tranquilo e Prospero”   1966   This is a strange one indeed.   A guy alone with his stocks and bonds on Christmas.   Yet he’s satisfied with just his pipe and his prosperity.   Why is he dressed as Santa?   He looks like he just pulled off a heist.   Maybe he dressed as Santa for his Wall Street Christmas party and stole everyone’s bonuses.

Vicente Celestino   “Alma e Coracao”   RCA Victor   (1960)   Born in Rio de Janeiro, he started out singing for neighbors and friends. Enrico Caruso was a big idol of his. At age 20, Celestino debuted at the Teatro São José, soloing on the waltz “Flor do Mal” (S.Coelho/D.Correia), a big hit. That recording, from 1916, was his first to sell thousands of copies, a phenomenon, at the time. Vicente sang the operetta “Juriti”, written by Chiquinha Gonzaga, and in 1920 he lined-up his own operetta company. But he did not abandon the carnival music, which granted him hits like “Urubu Subiu”. Celestino was one of the first Brazilian artists to use the electric recording system. He released hits like “Santa” (Freire Junior) and “Noite Cheia de Estrelas” (Índio). In the 1930s, he started writing music. The song that would make him known for generations to come was “O Ébrio”, turned into a motion picture and box-office hit by director and Celestino’s wife, Gilda de Abreu in 1946. The songs “Ouvindo-te”, “Coração Materno”, “Patativa” and “Porta Aberta” were also written by him. Having always performed in Brazil, he was an idol of different generations. During the tropicalist wave, Caetano Veloso “Coração Materno”. The singer died in 1968, just before a ceremony where the Tropicalists were going to do him homage, in São Paulo.

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!

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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

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“Juicy”   Willie Bobo.   Verve.   Another great one from 1967.   Includes the title tune and funky Latin soul/jazz covers of sixties hits including “Music to Watch Girls By,” “Knock On Wood,” “Ain’t to Proud to Beg,” “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”.   Bobo played bongo, timbales, conga, and trap-drum and after stints with Machito, Mongo Santamaria, Perez Prado, Tito Puente, George Shearing, Cal Tjader and Herbie Mann helped pioneer the Boogaloo sound.

“A Harpa E O Velhinho”   How’d he get THAT down the chimney?

Kenneth Rexroth organized and emceed the legendary Six Gallery reading on October 7, 1955, at which Ginsberg introduced the world to “Howl”. Rexroth’s work was composed with attention to musical traditions and he performed his poems with jazz musicians. Nonetheless, Rexroth was not wholly supportive of the dramatic rise in popularity of the so-called “Beat Generation,” and he was distinctly displeased when he became known as the father of the Beats.

A life-long iconoclast, Rexroth railed against the dominance of the east-coast “literary establishment” and bourgeois taste that was corrupting American poetry. While he refused to consider himself a Beat poet, his influence as champion of anti-establishment literature paved the way for others to write poems of social consciousness and passionate political engagement. His greatest contribution to American poetry may have been in opening it to Asian influences through his mystical, erotically charged poetry and superb translations. Kenneth Rexroth died in 1982 at 77 and is buried in Santa Barbara on a cliff above the sea.

Read more about Kenneth Rexroth at Modern American Poetry.

A rare 45 from Mexico of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”.   Kapp records.     Milton Delugg and his Orchestra.

Two cover variations for the 1964 release of “Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies & Other TV Fiends” The Exciting Sound of Milton Delugg and his Orchestra. Cover illustration by Jack Davis top and the cast of “The Munters” bottom. Both on Epic.

Milton DeLugg is the composer of “Hooray for Santy Claus,” the catchy theme song for the low-budget motion picture Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. In 1958 he produced Buddy Holly’s famous record, “Rave On.” DeLugg enjoyed a long association with Chuck Barris, beginning as arranger of the original theme to The Newlywed Game in 1966. From 1976 to 1980 he was musical director of The Gong Show. DeLugg often appeared on the show as a comic foil, in the characters of bad joke teller Naso Literatus and philosopher Old Drool. DeLugg’s venerable “Hoop Dee Doo” became a fixture on The Gong Show and was used whenever the contest winner was chosen.