Author Archives: recordcovers

Two more Mercury 10 inch lps.  Basin Street signed by Maas, Billy Daniels not signed, but probably laid out by Maas also.  I have one truly great Billy Daniels lp, but mostly his music is overproduced.  Its a shame, he … Continue reading →

All my Capitol 10 inch lps that I collected for the covers.  Mostly not music I like.  I love that the back cover of Le Sacre du Sauvage tells one how to pronounce it.  America was a more innocent place … Continue reading →

Almost every 10 inch Mercury lp I have.  Only one of the Maas covers is signed, the rest are guesses based on style.  Jan August was a fine cocktail piano player, I keep these with records I play.  The rest … Continue reading →

Mostly some pretty obscure labels.  I like the way Counterpart reused the William Steig drawing for two records.  I like the way Crown pays homage to Josef Albers Persuasive Percussion records.  I love when a label issues two different records … Continue reading →

Everything that I have collected on Capitol just for the covers.  I love some Steve Miller Band covers, but own those for the music.  But these are just for the covers.  The most remarkable one is the Salvador Dali, with … Continue reading →

The miscellaneous covers from my collection from the letters D,E and F.  David Stone Martin covers for Dial can be highly collectible, if they contain jazz records.  This one is for classical. I love the Tunisian one, Ennasham records.  I … Continue reading →

A few covers I have collected on labels starting with H to L.  The first one is on Hi-Infidelity.  This company put out joke record jackets with no records in them.  If you want to see more of them, go … Continue reading →

Motivation records with covers by Leo Lionni, designer/illustrator of children’s books.  Monitor was a short lived classical/foreign label, many great covers.  One of these is by Ernest Socolov.  Music Minus One had some great covers.  MGM had very few nice … Continue reading →

A bunch more covers that I bought for the cover, because I liked them for some reason.  Period records- generic, then a really nice use of a classic painting.   Philips – Jean Cocteau 1963.  Really?  Parliament – another Reid … Continue reading →

Ah, automatic spelling correction.  I type lps, the program decides I meant laps (as below) or ups, or God knows what.