Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs


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Let’s put it on

“Let’s Get It On”   Marvin Gaye   Tamla Records   (1973)   “Keep Gettin’ It On,” “Come Get To This,” “Distant Lover,” “Please Stay,” “If I Should Die Tonight,” “Just To Keep You Satisfied,” and “You Sure Love to Ball”.

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Songs of consequence

“Learning About Health and Safety”     UltraSound       This kind of takes the fun out of getting a record and listening.

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Castle rock

Jim Flora cover for Columbia Masterworks   Richard Strauss by Eugene Ormandy, Conductor and The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Playin’ Cricket

Cri-Cri the Cricket

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“Who IS this?!”

“Mosaico al ROJO VIVO!”   (Red Hot!)   Anibal Velasquez y su Conjunto   FM Records

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Don’t play with your food Angel!

“Fiesta en el Batey”   Angel Luis Garcia “El Profesor Que Canta”     Flor-Mex

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Sandwaves

“Scrambler”   World Pacific Records   (1964)   The Sandells first LP (The same group that scored the movie “Endless Summer”)

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She loves you, ye, ye, ye

“A Touch of Music, A Touch of Francoise Hardy”   Vogue Records   (France)   (1969)   Random note:   Hardy is mentioned in Bob Dylan’s poem “Some Other Kinds of Songs” on the back of the album “Another Side of Bob Dylan”   Excerpted here:

for françoise hardy
at the seine’s edge
a giant shadow
of notre dame
seeks t’ grab my foot
sorbonne students
whirl by on thin bicycles
swirlin’ lifelike colors of leather spin

Here’s a story of Dylan’s encounter with Francois Hardy

Here’s an early song from this beautiful French singer in English: “Ton Meilleur Ami”

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Walk this way

Abbey Road   The Beatles Apple Records (1969)   One of the most iconic, celebrated and imitated LP covers ever.   The Beatles final studio recording.   Here’s a good one:

Another still from the shoot (above) and Steve just added this outtake (below) of the guys walking the other way (and note Paul’s sandals):

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Buggin’

“Kamen Rider…one of the best shows in the 60s and 70s in Japan”

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