One of my favorite songs from the 80s was the Outlaws haunting cover of the 1949 song Ghost Riders by Stan Jones.
When searching for a photo of the Outlaws album cover, I ran across this compilation with 30 more covers released in 2019.
Tag: Album Covers
The Sweetback Sisters
The Sweettback Sisters can best be described as a western swing fusion act that formed in 2007. The King of Killing Time was released in 2017 and is their 6th album.
original art by Nickolas Muray, c1950
Jazz Noir
Nice 3 CD/60 song collection of various, original jazz songs from various sources, starting with the theme from Peter Gunn.
Other Worlds Other Sounds
Esquivel & his Orchestra – Other Worlds Other Sounds
Discogs classifies this as “Space-Age, Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Big Band” but he calls it “space-age bachelor pad music”… I’m kinda fond of “It had to be you”
Lola Wants You
Before her appearance on Peter Gunn, Columbia Records signed Lola Albright as a singer.
Paradise Theater, 1980
More Music from Peter Gunn, 1959
“If modern jazz becomes indelibly linked with manslaughter, murder, mayhem, wise-cracking private eyes and droll policemen, the brunt of the responsibility must be borne by composer Henry Mancini. Because of him the point is rapidly being reached where no self-respecting killer would consider pulling the trigger without a suitable jazz background.”
Molly Hatchet
The first 3 albums of Molly Hatchet featured artwork from Frank Frazetta, and they (mostly) continue using that type of imagery today.
Here are some of the albums from the Danny Joe Brown era. (1978-1990)
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First Record Cover Art, 1939
Before this cover by Alex Steinweiss, most records came in a plain, brown, paper sleeve with a hole in the middle showing who the artist and song was. Steinweiss had a better idea. He took a cameraman to the city’s famous Imperial Theatre, where he convinced the owner to briefly change the signage of the marquee, and made history.
Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart by Richard Rodgers and the Imperial Orchestra, Columbia Records (1939)
Welcome to the Neighborhood
A very pulp inspired album cover for Meat Loaf’s 1995 LP “Welcome to the Neighborhood”
