From the movie Candy from the book and screenplay by Terry Southern.   Candy was played by Ewa Aulin who was a 16-year-old Miss Sweden when she began her career in exploitation cinema, starting with prolific erotic aesthete Tinto Brass’ Deadly Sweet (1967), followed by her breakthrough role as the teen temptress in Giulio Questi’s Death Laid An Egg alongside European mega-stars Gina Lollabrigida and Jean-Louis Trinignant (a role she would re-imagine for The Double (1971).   Aulin was unleashed on American audiences with the movie adaptation of Terry Southern’s psychedelic Candy in 1968, where she floated through the muddled incestuous subplot with an endearing naivete. 1972-73 were Aulin’s banner years in terms of onscreen skin, appearing in a few of the better Decamerotics, including My Pleasure is Your Pleasure and Vittorio De Sisti’s Fiorina the Cow, but her piece de resistance – whose steamy lesbian sequence was cut out for American release – was Joe D’Amato’s Death Smiles on A Murderer (1972). In 2002, the German TV doco Ewa Aulin – Die Zeit mit mir als Candy was assembled in tribute to this Swedish nymphette, whose career was brief but momentous.

(35 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

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Courtesy of Zeco Louro.

(15 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

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Another from Uncle Gil.

(14 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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Two by Jack Davis. Courtesy of Uncle Gil. Some more his work here. To any kid who grew up in the Sixties with MAD Magazine (and his many paperback, movie poster, advertising and record cover illustrations), Jack Davis’ charactures and illustrations were just a part of life.

(38 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5)

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Tis’ the season.   Sergio Peres y Su Orquesta “Navidad Alegre” on Musart.

(15 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

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From Gilles Vignal.

(18 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)

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This is a really beautiful cover. The photo only begins to do it justice. The colors and tones of the actual record sleeve are stunning. Simple and elegant. Fifties.

(16 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5)

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A nice latin record “Que Pachanga..!” on Kristal. Ruben Rios y su Charanga.

(17 votes, average: 3.94 out of 5)

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Portrait of Art Farmer on Contemporary.   Although it was not until 1958 (the year this album was recorded) that Art Farmer was voted “New Star” of the year in the Down Beat poll, his reputation had already been established among musicians on the basis of his work with Lionel Hampton, Gigi Gryce, and Gerry Mulligan. With a rhythm section that includes his twin brother, the late Addison Farmer, on bass, as well as pianist Hank Jones and drummer Roy Haynes, he is heard here in three originals (two are blues), and five other appropriate vehicles such as Benny Golson’s “Stablemates.” Farmer felt that this was the best album he had made at that stage in his career.

(12 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)

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