This is on the rare Combo Records label. The instrumental “Pachucko Hop” was a hit for Chuck Higgens. The cover design and photography are by Frank Donovan. This was a controversial cover that showed more skin than was allowed in the late fifties. Good thing he had a neck tie in the studio at least. This record in good shape goes for a few hundred dollars.

(29 votes, average: 4.10 out of 5)

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This is a great record on the pink UK Island label. I just love the cool picture of Joyce with both guns drawn. There’s a killer version of “007,” the Leslie Kong song that Desmond Dekker made a hit the year before, on here. This came out in 1967.

(19 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Natural Four had a hit with “Can This Be Real,”one of my favorite soul songs of 1974 .   Their Soul Train suits and silver stack shoes make this cover a seventies soul classic.

(11 votes, average: 3.91 out of 5)

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The Japanese put out many covers with nudes that were artfully posed and photographed and art directed. Not all of them, but the ones from the fifties and sixties were very stylish and beautiful “figure studies”. Here’s a nice example on Polydor, which under it’s American imprint would never have put out a nude cover in the US.

(38 votes, average: 4.47 out of 5)

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This nice little single is from Argentina and includes a cut by Elvis! But it’s the groovy illustration of the rocking green trio that knocks me out.

(11 votes, average: 4.91 out of 5)

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Here’s a cool one from Brother Otis : “I wish my grandma looked this good in a schoolgirl outfit! The music makes up for that though. Hot Tex Mex sounds from the legendary Falcon label.”   (Check out www.otisrecords.com)

(12 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

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