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 […]
Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Billy Vaughn, ‘Sweet Music and Memories’
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
From the Stacks: Kent Morrill–The Dream Maker
Ask any music lover about the Wailers and you’ll likely get a Bob Marley lecture, but ask that same question in the Pacific Northwest and you may hear the legend of the […]
Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Sun, ‘Sunburn’
Artist: Sun Title: Sunburn Year: 1978 Label: Capitol Art Direction: Roy Kohara Cover Photography: Olivier Ferrand For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.
Why It Matters 