Vintage Album Covers
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How To Keep Your Husband Happy -
Ah, those were the days, eh? This guy spends his coffee break fantasizing about
his exercising wife. The back cover has a Checklist for keeping the hubster
happy, including: "Use a nice voice - keep it soft and musical - also a pretty
laugh." Are you listening, ladies?
Choice cuts: Strengthening the Feet, Enlarging Upper Chest Muscles
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The Three Suns Play
- Though it doesn't quite qualify as a Big Head cover, the subject is both attractive
and totally unrelated to the music inside, thus a high score overall. Is she
Spanish - do they bundle up for tea over there?
Choice cuts: Love Jumped Up, Chop Sticks, Busy Holiday
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Jewels of the Sea - Starring lovely
nudist figure model Dianne Webber in the role of cheesy Weechi-Wachi mermaid.
Titillating orchestrations indeed!
Choice cuts: Sea Nymph, Dawn Under The Sea, Sunken City
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Mark Murphy's Hip Parade - Here
Capitol Records begins to work up a fan following by showing two QT's flipping
their lids over hip crooner Mark Murphy. It worked; MM continued to release
jazzy/hip records into the 1990's.
Choice cuts: Personality, It's Not For Me To Say, Lonesome Town
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Beats
there a heart so cold it could answer, "No"? This 1972 LP includes liner notes
written by Mister Rogers himself: "Sometimes it's good to sing a brave strong song
and march around a bit." Yeah! Can I play?
Choice cuts: Everybody's Fancy, Sometimes People Are Good, You're Growing
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Cha Cha Cha - Here's a classic
Cha Cha cover. Disembodied fishnet-clad legs don't really impart the excitement
of the dance, but they do sell records. Foot-print style instructions included
on the back. It's just a jump to the left...
Choice cuts: Cha Cha Paganini, Senorita Catalina, Mi Cha Cha Cha
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Here
we see the Witch as Chemist. To Heck with cauldrons, our modern-day witch uses
Pyrex (TM) volumetric, Erlenmeyer, and distillation flasks filled to the brim with
what looks like hot Kool-Aid (TM).
Choice cuts: That part like, "Dahh, dum, dadada dum, da dum, da dum."
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Encores - You would probably never
associate Stan Kenton with the Surrealist art movement, but guess again. Monolithic
hands and shapes rest, frozen in time, on an empty landscape. So what's up with that?
Choice cuts: Somnambulism, Chorale for Brass, Piano, and Bongo
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Eight To The Bar - Eight swanky
babes, that is. A collection of Boogie Woogie "songs which have a girl's name
in the title." Let's match 'em up! Hmmm, is doll No. 6 more of a Peg or
a Diane?
Choice cuts: These are all pretty similar, but Cecelia really swings.
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Go Champs Go! - Here they come,
screeching up over the hilltop - oh wait, their kickstands are down. Never mind,
it's The Champs! This, their first LP, features their evergreen
smash hit, "Tequila!" Bow down!
Choice cuts: Lollipop, Night Beat, Tequila, Train To Nowhere, Robot Walk
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