Lovely Cover of the Week

Patty Duke - Patty

A darling of the 60s, she never had the greatest voice, but this very lovely cover almost makes up for her lack of vocal chops. I like the two-tone feel, and for my money the visual composition is awesome: perfect balance and beautiful vertical lines. Quite a minimalist approach, but everything fits together.

A very classy cover. Too bad my copy has a deletion hole on the top left corner and a fairly big crease in the bottom right corner...

Long live vinyl.
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Cool Finds of the Week

Some of these will be put on bid soon:

Long live vinyl.
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ANOTHER GREAT Find!

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera (1970?)

This is the Chinese opera whose title Brian Eno "borrowed" for his 2nd solo album.
The cover has that CLASSIC Communist-Party-approved artwork.
Really cool item!

More info on the Chinese opera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Tiger_Mountain_by_Strategy

More info on the Brian Eno album of the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Tiger_Mountain_(By_Strategy)

Long live vinyl.
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Album Covers Gone Wild

A quite impressive montage.

Enjoy.



Long live vinyl.

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La pochette laide de la semaine // This week's ugly cover

Learn Square Dancing... with Ed Gilmore

Decca Records - DL 9051

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The picture above doesn't really do justice to the cover... It's actually UGLIER! But don't get me wrong; I LOVE this cover! It's probably the ugliest one I've ever owned, but there's something about it that is truly wonderful... in a really ugly way.

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What really, really kills me about the picture is not how Ed is dressed. I mean, the shirt's kinda cool, I like the way he's tentatively taping his right foot. It's not the couples surrounding Ed, either. The only guy I find a bit annoying is the one on Ed's right.

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Nope, what really, really kills me about this LP cover, is Ed's MICROPHONE !! That thing is HUGE! And look how Ed is holding the wire with his right hand. It seems to be directly connected to Ed's hand; it just... ends there! The darn thing isn't plugged anywhere! ... which may explain Ed's strange grin...

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Love Ed's slacks, though...

Lovely Cover of the Week

Nelson Riddle - "Love Tide"
Capitol Records, 1961
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What beautiful example of a perfectly balanced cover. A classy, yet simple, font used sparingly; a gorgeous & lively color picture that actually matches the album title very well. Perfection...
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For more information about Nelson Riddle, please go to his
official website.

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La pochette laide de la semaine // This week's ugly cover

Flora MacDonald LP (self-published)

Flora MacDonald was a fairly famous politician from the Conservative Party of Canada in the 70s & 80s. I believe she put out that record for one of her fundraising campaigns back in the 70s, but unfortunately, she (or one of her ill-advisers) had the not-so-great idea to adorn the cover with an orange (?) shot of her (disembodied?) head.

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Not pretty. In fact, a pretty ugly cover (nothing to do with Ms. MacDonald, I'm referring to the design).

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Not to take anything away from Ms. MacDonald - I'm sure she's a lovely person -, but who would ever want to admit that they had bought this (besides me, of course). Luckily, there are not many of these LPs left.

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Lovely Cover of the Week

"Guy Lafitte Sax and Strings" -- Love in Hi-Fi

Une très belle pochette : photo magnifique, des polices de caractère sobres, mais "classy"; tout fonctionne.

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A wonderful LP cover : great photo, nice, simple yet classy fonts; everything is in its right place.

La pochette laide de la semaine // This week's ugly cover

Cours de danse, avec Gill & Bill

Ne donne pas du tout le goût de danser... // Somehow, I don't feel like dancing anymore...

Web Page: Album Cover Artists

Album Cover Artists is a great Web page saluting some of the great cover artists of the 50s, 60s & 70s, including Andy Warhol and Roger Dean.

A Must See!