A&M Acts' Best & Worst Cover Art
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seashorepiano
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I would think THAT was the front cover, at times... 
seashorepiano
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Good point. His picture is kind of interesting. Up until that point it seems like the other artist photos were done in shadows with trippy colors or silhouette (in Artie Butler's case, probably meant as a joke). Comparing it with Jobim's shadowy countenance, Herbie Mann's, Tamba 4's, Nat Adderley's, it's a pretty clear photograph and could suggest itself as the cover. Then again, Wes Montgomery is an exception... his shots are pretty clear, probably to stress the down-to-earth nature of the CTi recordings.
dostros
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Dave said:The Worst: Lee Michaels Carnival Of Life...Lee sportin' them glasses 'N' fake mustache!
Especially since it followed such a Great Masterpiece--Cover Art and What was Inside...
Dave
I don't get it. I agree that Carnival of Life is a strange thing to do on a cover. Normally you would like the artist to be recognizable on the cover of his first(?) album. What I don't understand: what Great Masterpiece did it follow? I thought Carnival was his first album?
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David O said:
Errr...Sorry...!! What I meant was as far as A&M SP #'s went...! Yeah, OK, I Know...! I should'a posted it as "Especially since such a Great Masterpiece would FOLLOW...!!"
Dave said:
That is, I'm referring back to when these albums were our: A&M Corner Album(s) Of The Week!!!
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I'll never understand the cover for Jimmie Rodgers Child Of Clay... 
It has a good Back Cover, not to mention the (Almost!) best liner notes Derek Taylor has ever written, but I cut off that front and put it aside (to hopefully one day maybe get Jimmie to sign) and "two-fer"-ed the back cover with the back (actually combination front/back of Michelle Phillips' Victim Of Romance) cover of another album, both mounted on a blank 12" cardboard jacket, with the records, in seperate inner-sleeves, housed inside.
I like both the fronts and backs for Rodgers' Windmills Of Your Mind and Troubled Times, though... Hard to make up my mind what to look at--Front or Back...
Quite a number of artists entitled their LP's Windmills..., back then, when covering the Alan & Marilyn Bergman-written title of The Thomas Crown Affair was so en-vogue, back then...
Can even picture my "own" album cover of my "OWN album" of Windmills along a road side and a "reflection" portrait of me staring at them as I ride or drive by...
Need some "songs" for it I can sing and maybe some "world class musicians", as well as a time machine to go back those 30, 35 or 40 years...
Dave
It has a good Back Cover, not to mention the (Almost!) best liner notes Derek Taylor has ever written, but I cut off that front and put it aside (to hopefully one day maybe get Jimmie to sign) and "two-fer"-ed the back cover with the back (actually combination front/back of Michelle Phillips' Victim Of Romance) cover of another album, both mounted on a blank 12" cardboard jacket, with the records, in seperate inner-sleeves, housed inside.I like both the fronts and backs for Rodgers' Windmills Of Your Mind and Troubled Times, though... Hard to make up my mind what to look at--Front or Back...
Quite a number of artists entitled their LP's Windmills..., back then, when covering the Alan & Marilyn Bergman-written title of The Thomas Crown Affair was so en-vogue, back then...
Can even picture my "own" album cover of my "OWN album" of Windmills along a road side and a "reflection" portrait of me staring at them as I ride or drive by...
Need some "songs" for it I can sing and maybe some "world class musicians", as well as a time machine to go back those 30, 35 or 40 years...
Dave
One of my favorite album art pieces is the cover of GOOD AND CHEAP by Eggs Over Easy (SP 4366). It's very similar to OMD's CRUSH.
While watching a late-night rerun of the 1966 surf documentary "Endless Summer" I became intrigued by footage of a gold sea with a small boat in the background. It hit me like a ton of bricks --- that's the Tamba 4 WE AND THE SEA photo! Glad I was awake enough to notice it.
Another awful album photo: BRER SOUL by Melvin Van Peebles (SP 4161). He's got a garbage bag wrapped around his head for God's sake; what were they thinking?
JB
While watching a late-night rerun of the 1966 surf documentary "Endless Summer" I became intrigued by footage of a gold sea with a small boat in the background. It hit me like a ton of bricks --- that's the Tamba 4 WE AND THE SEA photo! Glad I was awake enough to notice it.
Another awful album photo: BRER SOUL by Melvin Van Peebles (SP 4161). He's got a garbage bag wrapped around his head for God's sake; what were they thinking?
JB
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Dave
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Phil Ochs' Pleasures Of The Harbor is a pretty neat cover... Him standing...at a HARBOR...!! 
The tombstone on Rehearsals... is a pretty eerie forshadowing of his death, in '76, then still yet to come... 
I like the covers for Tape From California-- You just can't beat those drawings of Orange Trees painted behind him...! And if this sounds like he's one of the few artists whose ENTIRE body of works has the best covers, then it's because Greatest Hits and Gunfight At Carnegie Hall have great covers, too, this side of those Girls' Photos on The Sandpipers' albums!
I even like the cover shots on the double LP compilation, Chords Of Fame and my War Is Over: Best Of, CD...
Dave
The tombstone on Rehearsals... is a pretty eerie forshadowing of his death, in '76, then still yet to come... I like the covers for Tape From California-- You just can't beat those drawings of Orange Trees painted behind him...! And if this sounds like he's one of the few artists whose ENTIRE body of works has the best covers, then it's because Greatest Hits and Gunfight At Carnegie Hall have great covers, too, this side of those Girls' Photos on The Sandpipers' albums!
I even like the cover shots on the double LP compilation, Chords Of Fame and my War Is Over: Best Of, CD...
Dave
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