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Summary: The Author Needs to Clean his Glasses...
Review: ...Only a blind person could confuse the beautiful Sandy Warner with the horsey-looking dame on the cover of Martin Denny's "Exotic Percussion!" Invest some of your royalties in an economy size bottle of Windex...
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Summary: The Author Needs to Clean his Glasses...
Review: ...Only a blind person could confuse the beautiful Sandy Warner with the horsey-looking dame on the cover of Martin Denny's "Exotic Percussion!" Invest some of your royalties in an economy size bottle of Windex...
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Summary: cool little book
Review: for the money, this is a cool little book. great layout and design. of course this is only the tip of the iceberg and several more volumes need to follow. better yet, a wopping huge volume with a hefty price tag should be devoted to this subject matter. 50s era george shearing lps (there are a couple in here) alone could fill a chapter. i can picture such a lavish book on my coffee table. if Mr. Darling needs more examples of beautiful, sexy lp covers, i have a bunch. until that book gets made, however, this book is a treat.
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Summary: cool little book
Review: for the money, this is a cool little book. great layout and design. of course this is only the tip of the iceberg and several more volumes need to follow. better yet, a wopping huge volume with a hefty price tag should be devoted to this subject matter. 50s era george shearing lps (there are a couple in here) alone could fill a chapter. i can picture such a lavish book on my coffee table. if Mr. Darling needs more examples of beautiful, sexy lp covers, i have a bunch. until that book gets made, however, this book is a treat.
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: If you're a collector of cheesecake album cover art, I'm afraid that you will find this book disappointing. The dust jacket refers to the author as a collector on these types of covers, but I must say that if this represents his best, he's got a pitiful collection. Most of the covers featured are standard thrift store items like 101 Strings and other pedestrian 60's stuff.There are virtually no truly collectable albums like Johnnie Mann's "Night", Herb Jeffries' "Say It Isn't So" (with a young Barbara Eden), or the incredible "Speak Low" by Hal Otis (featuring a photo of Jayne Mansfield falling out of an evening dress). Nor are ANY of the most beautiful covers of the 50's highlighted, as it seems Mr. Darling is unaware of the truly beautiful covers of that era (like Hugo Peretti's "And So To Sleep" and George Cates' "Exciting"). Additionally, the book lacks other elements that would have made up for the omission of quality covers: the text is nearly worthless, no dates are given, nor is there any mention of the photographers from the studios of Capitol, Liberty and others who made these otherwise lack-luster recordings fly off the record store shelves. Kudus for the Sandy Warner section though. The book includes a few (I mean less than 5) truly worthwhile covers and the rest is filler. Even many of the samples used are shelf-worn or damaged. Makes me want to write a book on the subject.
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