LPCover Lover | 2006

Fred, Fredster, Freddy, Frederator

November 27th, 2006 in 10", Hands, Illustration by lpcoverlover | 2 Comments

Ã‰xitos al Estilo de Fred Musart

This is a great 1950’s 10″ lp from South America. I love the type and the illustration of the hands. Musart was a great label for cover art. This style of including the frame in the cover was used by other labels at various times as well. Mostly I like this one because I like Fred. I framed this and gave it to him. Fred is Fred Seibert who knows more than most about art and records and cartoons and what’s cool. Check out Frederator.com for a world of neat stuff.

(11 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

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Bruce Wayne Gacy

November 27th, 2006 in Clowns and the Circus, DIY, For Heaven's Sake, Hall of Fame, Incredibly Strange, Real People with Real Problems, Wanted Records by lpcoverlover | 4 Comments

Mr. Bat Sings (w/ Mrs. L. E. Tweten, accompanist)

This is one of the weirdest private press lps. The cover is amazing and has nothing to do with the generic xian music within. Clowns are creepy sometimes, but this is John Wayne Gacey scarey.

(37 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)

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Grrrl Power

November 27th, 2006 in DIY, Hall of Fame, Incredibly Strange, Real People with Real Problems by lpcoverlover | 4 Comments

Philosophy of the World The Shaggs Third World Records

Here’s perhaps the most celebrated outsider record and a true musical discovery. A self-produced, family band from the 1960’s. Susan Orleans wrote about the group in a New Yorker piece and the lp was reissued sometime in the early nineties. Original copies are rare and sell for $1,000 and up. I think only 1,000 were pressed with most thrown out in a dumpster in Boston.

(46 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

November 27th, 2006 in Cartoons, Illustration, Kiddies, Wanted Records by lpcoverlover | No Comments

Romper Room presents Mr. Do Bee Little World Records

Like Puff-the-Magic dragon, Mr. Doobie has been turning kids on to fun, games and songs and teaching them not to bogart since the fifties.

(15 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5)

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Jungle fever

November 27th, 2006 in Exotica, Illustration by lpcoverlover | 7 Comments

Eyes of the Spectre Chaino

Chaino put out some cool records in the fifties. He was a percussionist and some of his stuff is “exotic” African rhythms and some is more jazzy. This kind of exploitation cover art was popular at the time for Eisenhower-era suburbanites looking for something wild (but safe). A stunning illustration and a prime example of its type. The very rare Spectre label had a very scary eye logo around the spindle hole.

(48 votes, average: 4.77 out of 5)

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