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Ann-Margret “Hey, Little Star” b/w “Man’s Favorite Sports” RCA Victor (Japan) Hard to find a bad photo of Ann-Margret. Here’s a cute one from the early Sixties. Japanese record companies put out beautiful, high-quality covers featuring American movie stars and models in the Fifties and Sixties. You can see many of them on this site!
Moon Beams The Bill Evans Trio Riverside Records (1962) Nico in her early days as a model graces the cover here. The debut recording of Bill Evans “Second Trio” with Chuck Israels on bass taking the place of LaFaro, who died at 25 in an automobile accident on July 6, 1961 (just 10 days after the Bill Evans Trio’s triumphant Village Vanguard engagement). The death of LaFaro was a devastating personal and musical, loss to the pianist, after which he took nearly a year off from recording or playing in public. Moon Beams collects the ballads recorded during May and June 1962 sessions. Moonbeams is perhaps the most exquisitely romantic of Evan’s Riverside releases, much like Coltrane’s BALLADS in this respect. (The more uptempo tunes from these sessions were put on How My Heart Sings!) Fun fact: Included here is the Evan’s original “Re: Person I Knew” which is an anagram of producer Orrin Keepnews’s name.
Carroll Baker “Baby Doll” P hilips Records (France) Music from the Warner Bros. film by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Elia Kazan.
“L’amour” b/w “Miguel e Isabel” Luis Aguile Tiffany Records (France). (Whoever can tell me the year and month of this issue of Playboy wins!)
Sharon Tate on the cover. March 1967.
Billy Vaughn “Greatest Boogie Woogie Hits” Dot Records (Japan) Sophia Loren from the film “Heller in Pink Tights” on the cover!
Ann-Margret shakes on this LP cover from Oscar Records (South Korea)! A compilation of American pop and soul hits from the sixties – Wilson Pickett, The Supremes, James Brown, Johnny Rivers, The Animals, etc. Ann-Margret graced many record covers across the globe for three decades. Sexy sells and no one was sexier in her prime.
The Bob Crewe Generation Songs from Barbarella “An Angel is Love” and “The Black Queen’s Beads”. Cool cover with two shots of Jane Fonda in full space fashion from the Roger Vadim film. This on Dot Records (Italy) import.
Wow! A new find here. A very rare Bettie Page EP cover from Mexico. Kiko y Beto “Censura C” on Philips (1966) .
“Memories in Rhythm” Jimmy Smith, Piano Meteor Records (South Africa) NOT that Jimmy Smith. Cool cover of Sophia Loren! Amazing how labels around the world just appropriated images of Hollywood movie stars, starlets, pin-ups and models for their cover art regardless of the music within. Sophia Loren, Bridget Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, etc. graced the covers of records from every continent throughout the Fifties and Sixties. We collect them all!
