Favorite Albums with a Black & White Cover Shot

[Dave]

What albums can you think of that actually have a Black & White photo on the FRONT cover, as well as the back?


Heart: Bébé Le Strange

Bobby Goldsboro: Come Back Home

Marty Robbins: Adiós Amigo

Johnny Mathis: Killing Me Softly

Andy Williams: In The Arms Of Love

Andy Williams: You've Got A Friend


Any others you can think of?



Dave

 

[Harry]

The Beatles used black and white photos or drawings on several of their album covers:

REVOLVER
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
WITH THE BEATLES

At least two different Carpenters albums have had black and white photos on the front:

LOVELINES
BY REQUEST (Japan)

Herb Alpert famously had black and white front pictures, but color back pictures on:

THE BRASS ARE COMIN'
HERB ALPERT'S NINTH (the little photo on the front, anyway)

Burt Bacharach has a black and white photo on the front of his 25th ANNIVERSARY CLASSIC VLOUME 23. I think several other in that series do too.

A fairly famous black and whit cover goes to Simon & Garfunkel's BOOKENDS, and Art himself used a black and white photo on BREAKAWAY,

Lani Hall had two black and white photos on covers:

BLUSH (though it was tinted to a pinkish "blush" color)
LANI HALL (her second Spanish album)

Sheryl Crow has used rather glum-looking black and white photos on two of her discs:

THE GLOBE SESSIONS
SHERYL CROW (self titled)

I'm sure there are many more.

Harry

 

[Harry]

I forgot two Herb solo albums:

FANDANGO
SECOND WIND

Harry

 

[Dave]

"...And I look around my room where it's so dark and cold, without you... The ashes in the fireplace are the poetry and the songs I write about you... So used to you being by my side, it may take some time to realize...It's all over..."

And I forgot an obvious one:

Val Stöecklein: GREY LIFE



Dave

 

[Yazmin_Salinas]

BLUSH (though it was tinted to a pinkish "blush" color)
LANI HALL (her second Spanish album)

Besides these recordings, I also like:

"20 éxitos" by Soda Stereo

"Tierra Bendita" by Los Rancheros (Argentinian release)

"Crossroads" by Bon Jovi

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Easy choice for me. Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS, followed closely by their self-titled "white" album. Two very classy covers.

A couple of other A&M b&w covers, not favorites of mine but just listing for posterity:

Joan Baez, WHERE ARE YOU NOW MY SON
Joe Jackson LOOK SHARP, BODY & SOUL (tinted), I'M THE MAN
Nazareth CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ROCK & ROLL

 

[Rudy]

Easy choice for me. Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS, followed closely by their self-titled "white" album. Two very classy covers.

"Tusk" had a small black and white photo of a dog on the front. Come to think of it, "FM Live" and "Say You Will" might be B&W also.

Rosie Vela's "Zazu" (A&M) was black and white...or actually, more sepia-toned like "The Brass are Comin'", both of which I'd call monochromatic, not specifically B&W.

Some other B&W (or monochromatic) favorites: Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" and "Everything Must Go", and Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" and "Morph The Cat".

Joe Jackson's had quite a few himself: Look Sharp, I'm The Man, and a stylized blue cover with a B&W photo of Joe on "Jumpin' Jive". His recent "Volume 4" (reunion of the original quartet) was also B&W--a volume knob on a guitar amp set to "4".

 

[Mike Blakesley]

"Tusk" had a small black and white photo of a dog on the front. Come to think of it, "FM Live" and "Say You Will" might be B&W also.

Yep, and also HEROES ARE HARD TO FIND and FUTURE GAMES.

 

[Mr Bill]

In honor of the topic, I am forgoing my usual #772233 color for BLACK & WHITE

Claudine's Colors is a B&W, though tinted...
Junior's Eyes' Juniors Eyes and
Spooky Tooth...

Joe Cocker's Joe Cocker! (though text is orange)
Someone already mentioned Brass Are Comin' though I think the colorul treatment of the border packaging along with teh sepia tone makes one not think of it as "Black & White."
The Soundtrack to John & Mary thoguh again. there is colored text.

Humble Pie's Debut...
Marc Benno's Debut (black & white on buff paper)
And Gary Wright's Extraction

Lee Michaels' 5th
Strawbs' From the Witchwood and
Mimi & Tom's A&M debut (slightly tinted)

Jim Carroll's debut (with blue text]
Rita Coolidge's Nice Feelin'
Fairport's Babbacombe Lee (though it has red text)

Three in a row with: EarthQuake, Hookfoot and Joan Baez
(Liza's live in Paris is a BW photo but is heavily colorized)

Derrick & Armstrong's is largely B&W with a bit of colorization in the middle
Booker T & Priscilla's is B&W though on buff paper (and they get bonus points as they are a Black & White artist, doncha think?)
Though the packaging is green, Time Weisberg's picture is B&W.

Marc Benn's Ambush qualifies.
Procol Harum's debut (though the A&M release got a maroon border)
And like Tim Weisberg, Sonny & Terry have BW picture in a collored field

Gallagher & Lyle's Willie & the Lap Dog
A scary witch-like Joan Baez scowls from Where Are You Now My Son?
and Cat Stevens finally puts his face on a cover instead of his childish cartoons with Foreigner (not to be confused by the band of the same name).

Hoyt Axton's revised Life Machine cover
Status Quo's Hello and
Frampton's Frampton (though there is some pastel color art in the corner)

Ronnie Lane's debut A&Mer is a sepia toned B&W
Burt's Greatest is a B&W photo with colored text
Joe Jackson's 10" Look Sharp (with free button)...

Humble Pie rocks the Fillmore in B&W cover art
Groucho Marx "rocks" Carnegie Hall with B&W cover art
Axton gets a sepia treatement

Frampton does B&W again (with a colorful banner)
Humble Pie's Street Rats (which had no US release)
Tim Weisberg listens to the city in B&W

Nazareth avoids goupies (but not a colorful title art piece)
Gallagher & Lyle go B&W (with color title, though)
And Hoyt does it again...

A Phil Ochs retrospective features a tinted B&W picture
Andy Fairweather Low Be Bops a Lu La in B&W
Michael Katakis (black & silver actually)...

Michelle Phillips is a Victim Of Romance with a red title text)
Gato's in B&W with a "Ruby, Ruby" border
And Garland Jeffries' One Eyed Jack

The Stranglers get bonus points as thier LP was entitled Black & White (and even was pressed in black and white vinyl).
Les McCann was the Mann!
Gino Vanelli... nuff sed.

Peter C Johnson (who?)
The full 12" Joe...
Garland Jeffries American Boy & Girl

Another dose o' Joe in two sizes!
Tim Curry in B&W is "pure Simplicity

Hazel O'Connor's second was pure B&W
Fripp & Summers are Bewitched in B&W
Bauhaus in B&W

Dennis Brown in B&W (green title background, though)
The late Falco was partial to B&W (though the text was orange)
Bryan Adams...

Rosie Vela
Aside from purple gloves, Ms Robbie Benson (Karla DeVito) looks sumptuios in B&W...
As does Amy Grant in four different poses...

Suzanne Vega is in BW with a tan cover (not to be confused with ochre)
Marti Jones is B&W (but not her text)
Blue Nile in glorious B&W (with a rainbow title)

Simple Minded B&W...
Tommy Shaw in B&W
and Glenn Burtnick...

The Quick!
Iggy Pop
Paul Janz

John Hiatt
Maria Vidal
Black & White (who get a bonus since the band name is, "Black & White")

Glenn Burtnick again...
Supertramp (with a blue border)
Hearts & Minds
...And there are tons more if I peruse the other series!

--Mr Bill

 

[Dave]

...And there are tons more if I peruse the other series!

--Mr Bill

Such as this one...:

--And let's not forget the First Madonna Album, as well as the Sepia-Toned Like A Virgin LP, which followed...

And there's also Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan (--Forgot the title, but it contained their catchy Hit Single, "Hollywood") and Prince's Dirty Mind...

I also remember The Who's QUADROPHENIA Soundtrack, and Paul & Linda McCartney's Press To Play, too...



Dave

 

[Dave]

A fairly famous black and white cover goes to Simon & Garfunkel's BOOKENDS, and Art himself used a black and white photo on BREAKAWAY...

Art Garfunkel's Scissors Cut was also done in B&W, and another LP of his, Lefty has an old B&W photo of him (from fairly long-ago) on the cover...

There's also Kenny Rogers & The First Edition's Ballad of Calico, a themed-concept album, done in an "Old West Sepia-Tone"... And also Mac Davis Mac Davis; B&W front cover, while the back cover is in Full-Color, showing his head in a red background...

--And let's not forget the First Madonna Album, as well as the Sepia-Toned Like A Virgin LP, which followed...

And the (True) Blue-Themed True Blue, which came after that, followed by another sepia-toned cover (with a colored text) Like A Prayer...



Dave

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Wow, nice post Mr. Bill!

But I can't believe you left out Sting's DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES! (AM3750)

 

[Mr Bill]

Yes, there are plenty in other series... I was concentrating on the main line 4100-5400 (and its sidetrack 3600 series). If I did them all you can be sure Sting would've been in there in several places. Even Regattta De Blan could've qualified as a monochromatic (blue & silver vice Black & White).

--Mr Bill

 

[DAN BOLTON]

How about Gato Barbieri's RUBY, RUBY?


Dan

 

[Mark-T]

Barry Manilow's "One Voice"- a pretty good album with a good cover shot of him as well.

 

[Dave]

Tony Bennett: Greatest Hits, Vol. 3--Which makes me wonder why Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 & Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 and even are in color...

Chi Coltrane: Chi Coltrane--Which features her first & only hit, "Thunder & Lightning"...

Cheap Trick: In Color--Actually, you flip to theback to see the "other title", In Black & White...

Jerry Vale: The Impossible Dream

Frank Sinatra: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Carly Simon: Spy







Dave

 

[JMAR5]

Gino Vannelli-Brother to Brother
Laura Nyro-New York Tendaberry
Natalie Cole-Unforgettable
Kiss-Dressed to Kill
Nina Simone-Baltimore
Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow

 

[Captain Bacardi]

How about the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East!



Capt. Bacardi

 

[AM Matt]

Did someone forget "The Best Of Procol Harum" (1972)?? Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[Dave]

...Did someone forget "The Best Of Procol Harum" (1972)...??

For that matter, how 'bout A Whiter Shade of Pale...?



Dave

 

[Dave]

Eric Carmen: Change Of Heart (and Eric "All By Myself" Carmen, --though with a COPPER Cover..., for that matter...)

Billy Joel: The Stranger

Billy Joel: Piano Man

Billy Joel: Best of Billy Joel, Volume 1 and 2 (2-Record Set)

Barbra Streisand: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (..., Vol. 1 is in color, though--Right?

Barbra Streisand: Classical Barbra

Barbra Streisand: What About Today?

Bobby "Blue" Bland: Two Steps From The Blues (--Which I think is a various shades of BLUE, actually...)



Dave

 

[Dave]

I recently bought Cher's Cher which later got reissued as Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves...

I'd Rather Believe In You was also done in Black & White and using old photos from previous photo-sessions (on was on the back of Stars, the I'd Rather... predecessor...) 'Cause she was pregnant with her lil' Elijah Blue...!

Then, there's also Michael Parks Blue and you could also count the Average White Band's Average White Band, with its hand-drawn cover...


Dave

 

[AM Matt]

Robbie Dupree "Street Corner Heroes" (1981) but it has the blue letters "Street Corner Heroes". Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[Dave]

Yes, Addrisi Brothers, Ghost Dancer...



Dave

 

[Dave]

What was originally issued as Jimmy Witherspoon & Eric Burdon as Guilty, in 1971, gets reissued in 1976 as Black & White Blues, with Burdon, this time getting top billing in the title:

A road shot where the two principals are both seem to be enjoying the ride...

And don't forget Eric Burdon's Sun Secrets (here reissued in tandem with STOP on CD):

Then, there's also Michael Parks Blue and you could also count the Average White Band's Average White Band, with its hand-drawn cover...

Soul Searchin' is another one (and the inside photos also in B&W are also a treasure)... Then, there's also Benny & Us, the collaboration with Ben E. King...



Dave