Vintage Album Covers
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C'mon... Get Happy! - Yeah!
Come on, isn't this a HAPPY, HAPPY pose? Can't you just FEEL the
happiness? And no scenery (except that dorky guy) to distract us.
Inside we get bright, sparkly, "up-tempo" music. Gosh! I'm just getting so
HAPPY!
Choice cuts: Get Happy, S'posin', Jeannine
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How To Overcome Discouragement
- Not feeling all that happy? Here's a cover for you! Feel his
pain, with hideous green lighting, broken glass, and the weight of the ugly
orange lettering overhead. This nightmarish scene of doom should at least
deliver a good headache. Comes with a script booklet so you can follow along. (?)
Choice cuts: Side One, Band Four - "Mental Attitude" - was especially lame.
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Scheherazade - One of several
dozen recordings of Scheherazade to feature, well, Scheherazade on the cover.
At least this one is pretty, in an over-saturated-color kind of way, with red hair
and green eyes. One good thing, "This recording may be played on any 331/3 RPM
record playing instrument."
Choice cuts: It's classical. It has movements, not cuts. Sheesh.
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Julie - Hubba, hubba!
Thinkin' about starting your own album cover collection, aren't you? Julie
London was a decent singer, but she knew what really sold albums, and this was one of
her best covers. All this and "Transistorized Stereophonic Sound", too.
Choice cuts: Dream of You, Midnight Sun, Daddy
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The First Family - I think at one
point in the early 60's everyone had this album. It's more of a nostalgia trip
now, as this JFK-inspired comedy LP got very little play after, say, November 1963.
Choice cuts: The Tour, The Decision, Press Conference
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Whistle While You Work - "Music
with a lilt to lighten her housework". Ah, the 50's - a kinder, gentler,
weirder time. From the back: "This is a collection of happy songs!
They bubble with an 'It's good to be alive' feeling!" - or is that an
It's-good-to-wax-the-kitchen-floor feeling?
Choice cuts: Just one, but it's a doozy: Bridge of Happiness
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Music For Relaxing - Smaller labels,
like Hollywood Records, often issued cheezy covers like this to sell albums, since
they couldn't offer big-name artists like Capitol and RCA. Besides a relaxed and
ready-for-anything Lillybelle, this LP features Full Polyphonic Sound, which beats the
heck out of all those Partial Singlephonic Sound records.
Choice cuts: April Showers (actually, forget the Victrola, enjoy the cover)
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Destination Moon - The Ames
Brothers go a long way toward enhancing the surreality of this already surreal
setting. Those little chunks of someone's concrete sidewalk don't hurt either.
"Leave your cares below, pull the switch, let's GO!"
Choice cuts: Destination Moon, Moonglow, It's Only a Paper Moon
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Music To Work Or Study By - Here's
a classic of the genre, "music-to-whatever-by". This suffocatingly wholesome,
carefully staged cover presents an ideal of home life that you, too, could enjoy, if
you'd just buy this album. The music? An early form of Muzak, but not so peppy.
Choice cuts: Scrub, Brother, Scrub, It's A Lovely Day Tommorrow
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Accordion in Hi-Fi - Direct from
the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas and the Arthur Godfrey Show, it's the world's most
famous female accordionist in her very first recording. Jo Ann became a regular
on the Lawrence Welk Show, and later invented the Accordionist's Bra. Sorry,
just kidding.
Choice cuts: Tico Tico, Bumble Boogie
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