This just in from LP cover lover Kyr Notis:  DIONYSIS SAVOPOULOS – The garden of the fool (1969)  “Probably the best psychedelic cover in Greece, excellent record too.”

(59 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

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Wycote Records’ “4 Chipmunks”

Steven Wright writes  … “Your “witch doctor” entry reminded me of this;  this Lp was initially credited to “the 4 chipmunks” before legal pressure forced them to the less plagiaristic “wyncote squirrels”…wyncote was notrious for this — they issued an album called “beatlemania” by the liverpools and “monkey business” by the chimps as blatant ripoffs. Btw, after their first Lp,  david seville allegedly used women to voice his chipmunks”

(50 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)

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Columbia Records sleeve for 78 R-P-M records (ca. 1953)  This drawing was used by The Clash for the cover art of their London Calling single:

(56 votes, average: 3.93 out of 5)

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“Rock and Roll Your Bones”  Bell Records  (Australia)  Ray Whitaker at the Hammond Organ  (1957)  L.A. based Quartet with Bea Jay, vocalist

(51 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)

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“Do You Like Humperdinck?  Engelbert’s 30 Biggest Hits at the Organ with Hans Martens  Able Records

(74 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)

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Not to be confused with the Sonny Rollins LP of the same name!  Here’s “Way Out West”  by the Scottish folksinger Alex Campbell  Arc Records (UK)  (1963)  A four-track EP with “Jesse James,” “The Old Chisolm Trail,” “The Streets of Loredo,” and “The Wabash Cannonball” featuring the Gunslingers, Gerry Loughran (guitar), Royd Rivers (harmonica), David Laibman (guitar, 5-string banjo), Ian McCann (mandolo, mandolin, autoharp)  Read more and listen here!  Great cover illustration here by an uncredited designer – reminds me of some great Polish and Czech poster art.

(45 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5)

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“Baby Lover”  (Brazil)

(56 votes, average: 3.89 out of 5)

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“Ring of Fire”  The Best of Johnny Cash  Columbia Records (1963) A collection of the big man’s Columbia singles released between 1959 and 1963.   Here’s the first LP release of “Ring of Fire,” one of Cash’s most famous tracks and the first #1 album when Billboard debuted their Country Album Chart on Jan. 11, 1964.   And the players:  Luther Perkins, Jack Clement and Norman Blake on Guitar!  Marshall Grant on Bass!  Morri Palmer and W.S. Holland on Drums!  Bill Pursell on Piano!  Billy Lathum on Banjo! Karl Garvin and Bill McElhiney on Trumpet! And, Ms. Maybelle Carter on Autoharp!!

(64 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)

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“Cha Cha Cha”  Ramon Marquez  Musart Records

(47 votes, average: 3.23 out of 5)

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“Come Ye Apart Awhile’  May Rowland, Director of Silent Unity  (Unity School of Christianity, Lee’s Summit, Missouri)

Thanks to LP cover lover Jon Jerome for contributing the above deconstruction!

(48 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5)

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