Tag Archives: Design

Basic

Posted on May 9, 2024 by simon robinson

Alongside every sleeve which we can admire today sit hundreds which rightly get ignored. Here is one, picked up recently for a project. It shows us the hum drum work some designers had to churn out to make ends meet! … Continue reading →

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Je t’aime…

Posted on September 26, 2023 by simon robinson

Anyone who spent any time in the Sixties could not fail to be aware of actress Jane Birkin, and her recording career which started with the infamous Sege Gainsbourg duet Je t’aime… moi non plus. Birkin’s recent passing (or as her … Continue reading →

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Christmas with A&M

Posted on December 21, 2022 by simon robinson

A nice piece of record industry memorabilia from the Seventies.  Label back then flooded record shops with promotional material and catalogue updates were often piled up on shop counters.  This example was produced by A&M Records for their Christmas 1976 … Continue reading →

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Moonlight

Posted on December 9, 2022 by simon robinson

Another of the “exotic beauty” style of glamorous album sleeves which Capitol excelled at in the late 1950s. Caribbean Moonlight by Les Baxter was issued in 1957 and got into Billboards ‘pop instrumental’ chart the following year. I would be … Continue reading →

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Wild!

Posted on November 11, 2022 by simon robinson

I have always liked the Fontana Popular Jazz Series of albums for their continuity of cover design. There were three dozen issued in the mid 1960s and all but one went for the same look. Namely a monochrome backdrop of … Continue reading →

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Carpenters Live

Posted on August 19, 2022 by simon robinson

I’m not a big Carpenters fan so the sleeve below is not one I’m familiar with. It’s not going to make many best covers of all time polls that’s for sure! Overall it’s well executed, given that this was pre-Photoshop … Continue reading →

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Cha cha cha

Posted on July 8, 2022 by simon robinson

Chris Meloche in Canada found this nice Cha Cha Cha album by Cugat in his local thrift store a while back, so I’ve dug out two more on the same lines for this post.  These Latin themed albums were very … Continue reading →

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Scheherajazz

Posted on April 22, 2022 by simon robinson

Released on the budget Somerset label in America in 1959, Scheherajazz has become a bit of a cult recording apparently. Although not credited, the cover is by Will Dresser, who did quite a few designs for the label from the … Continue reading →

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Sun Surf and Steel

Posted on April 4, 2022 by simon robinson

This one has sat in my sleeve collection for a while. I picked it up as I liked the unusual stormy monochrome cover photo (credited to Max Cherrie, their leader), very unlike the usual sort of touristy idyll images of … Continue reading →

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Repackaging

Posted on February 18, 2022 by simon robinson

The Billy May album above dates back to 1953, originally released as Bacchanalia, a 10” album. It has to be said that original sleeve is pretty mad – a Flintstones style cartoon picture of Romans partying away and some freestyle … Continue reading →

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