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  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Al Stefano, ‘Rhumba Favorites’

    Artist: Al Stefano and His Orchestra Title: Rhumba Favorites Year: 1963 Label: Golden Tone Cover Design: Unknown, presume in-house art department For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Sweet Cream and Other Delights’

    Artist: Sweet Cream Title: Sweet Cream and Other Delights Year: 1978 Label: Shadybrook Photography: Dirk Bakker   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Billy Vaughn, ‘Sweet Music and Memories’

    Artist: Billy Vaughn Title: Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra Play Sweet Music an Memories Year: 1957 (mono original) / 196? (this version) Label: Dot Cover Design: Unknown, presume in-house art deparment   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Deep Cuts: Swimming Songs

    I may be a cruddy swimmer, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to be invited to the pool party. There will be booze, after all, and cleavage, and if the water is warm enough I’ll get in and paddle around for a little bit. And even if I don’t get in the pool, I’m…

  • Swimming Lessons

    I don’t know how old I am, but I am preschool age. My mother and my aunt take me to the city pool. I wear white swim trunks that resemble bikini underwear. On the front a silk-screened character declares that “I’m A Little Angel.” On my ass a cartoon demon resembling Hot Stuff says that…

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Bar-Kays, ‘Propositions’

    Artist: Bar-Kays Title: Propositions Year: 1982 Label: Polygram Cover Photo: Jim Houghton Art Direction: Bill Levy Design: Nancy Greenberg   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Bow Wow Wow, ‘I Want Candy’

    Artist: Bow Wow Wow Title: I Want Candy Year: 1982 Label: RCA Cover Photo: Jim Varriale Creative Director: Tony King   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: The Boston Baked Beans, ‘The Stripper’

    Artist: The Boston Baked Beans Title: The Stripper Year: 196? Label: Diplomat Cover Design: Unknown, presume in-house art department.   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Deep Cuts: Choice Songs

    Choice is perhaps the most essential component of human life. The little critters living in your eyebrows can’t choose to move to your mustache, after all–their entire lives are predefined. But we choose everything: where we live, how we live, what we do, when we do it. Granted, often it feels like someone else is…

  • The Enchanted Land of Infinite Finite Choices

    (Note: The following dates from February 2021. I’m not sure why I never posted it, but it seems like a fairly decent rant.) Fry’s Electronics announced last week that the brand has joined the ever-growing scrap heap of retail history. The extinct company is just the latest in the mass die off we’re witnessing thanks…