Thank you Martin for the album cover art!

The Cars guitarist, Elliott Easton, shared a Flintstones-themed version of the band’s 1979 Candy-O album, on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPU5Whuyij/?hl=en  via https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/cars-guitarist-elliott-easton-shares-spoof-of-iconic-album-cover-candyo

notice that the names of the guys in the band were renamed in the Flintstones theme Roc Ocasek, Benjamin Ore, David Rubbleson, Elliot Eastrock, and Slag Hawkes

The iconic Candy-O album cover was created by pin-up artist Alberto Vargas. It featured a model sprawled across a drawing of a Ferrari 365 GTC/4, and it was based on a photoshoot at a car dealership 

Cars drummer David Robinson spoke about the photoshoot and cover artwork in a 2020 interview, where he noted that he came up with the idea to do a “pinup thing” and sought out Vargas.

“I spent a day with him and he said he would do it,” Robinson recalled. “We went to a Ferrari dealership, and I can't believe they let [the model] get on the car… it was like on the hood of the car, and we moved her all around as we took pictures.”

and here's some crazy trivia... you know the cover of that album, Candy O?

https://nihilistnotes.blogspot.com/search?q=Meconium

I didn't know that the model, was one I was familiar with from the Pro Trac Racing Profile wheels (which I bought a pair of N 50s in 1990 and put on my 71 Challenger, and 88 Dakota) advert was the same woman! 

And I posted this in the "automotive parts advertising used sex to sell car parts" part 5 post way back in 2009 (if you haven't seen those 1960s and 70s ads you're going to get a kick out of them -  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/when-automotive-parts-advertising-used.html 

great name for a country album "Truck Still Works" (follows in the naming tradition of his third album, 2003's Mud on the Tires, 2007's 5th Gear, and 2014's Moonshine in the Trunk)

I first found out about Brad Paisley when his song Ticks, in 2007, made me laugh every time I heard it. 

Every time you take a sip
In this smoky atmosphere
You press that bottle to your lips
And I wish I was your beer
In the small there of your back
Your jeans are playing peekaboo
I'd like to see the other half
Of your butterfly tattoo

Hey, that gives me an idea
Let's get out of this bar
Drive out into the country
And find a place to park

'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks

I know the perfect little path
Out in these woods I used to hunt
Don't worry babe, I've got your back
And I've also got your front
Now, I'd hate to waste a night like this
I'll keep you safe you wait and see
The only thing allowed to crawl all over you
When we get there is me

You know every guy in here tonight
Would like to take you home
But I've got way more class than them
Babe, that ain't what I want

'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks

You never know where one might be
There's lots of places that are hard to reach
I gotcha

I'd like to see you out in the moonlight
I'd like to kiss you, baby, way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
And I'd like to check you for ticks
Oh, I'd sure like to check you for ticks

https://www.facebook.com/bradpaisley/posts/truck-still-works-this-friday-crank-this-up-in-whatever-vehicle-you-currently-ha/1102366627913410/

Thanks Martin and Joe!!

 

I'd forgotten that the Stray Cats were Built For Speed!

Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill

in response to yesterday's airplanes on album covers, Kim sent me one that had been overlooked! Blue Oyster Cult!

thank you Kim! 

Even cooler than yesterday's album covers, as I prefer the look of hand drawn art! 

PLUS! This is the only one featuring a WW2 era Luftwaffe plane. In this case the Messerschmitt 262

But here's something I just learned yesterday about the Blue Oyster Cult, and I will guess, you are going to learn this for the first time too. I hope so, I love to surprise and entertain all of you. 

things you did not know about rock bands names: 

A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, Mötley Crüe and the parody bands Spın̈al Tap and Green Jellÿ... 

Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter typeface is a form of foreign branding, which has been attributed to a desire for a "gothic horror" feel. 

The metal umlaut is not generally intended to affect the pronunciation of the band's name.

As Vince Neil recounts: "I can remember it like it was yesterday. We were drinking Löwenbräu, and when we decided to call ourselves Mötley Crüe, we put some umlauts in there because we thought it made us look European. We had no idea that it was a pronunciation thing. 

the 1950s brought about a cultural obsession with jet planes... but I hadn't seen them on LP album covers until now

https://thejivebombers.com/2023/09/02/lps-and-airplanes/

Hal Blaine even used a bunch of hot rods for his album cover

 

And the back of the album has a different photo. On the CD, the cover shot is only slightly different. How the hell the music companies in the CD era found more photos from this one photo shoot is a mystery 

1967 album covers were simple, but visually effective and evocative - Merle Haggard And The Strangers - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive

The cartoon art of Jack Davis has been on book covers, magazine covers, album covers, and TV Guide... all over the place

(1926-2016)

After high school, he joined the Navy for 3 years, serving in Guam, where he drew a comic called Boondocker for The Navy Times.

He returned to his home state and enrolled in the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art under the G.I Bill, where he drew for the student newspaper. Before long, his teachers were encouraging him to go to New York to pursue his art career. He moved north and enrolled in classes at the Art Students League.

After moving to New York in 1949 and studying at the Art Students League at night, he made his first entry into the art field as an inker for a comic strip, “The Saint.”

He got his start in 1950 selling drawings to EC Comics, which published horror fiction titles like “Tales From the Crypt.” Two years later, amid an outcry over the potentially harmful effects of violent comics on children, the company started what became Mad magazine, edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Mr. Davis was a member of the “Usual Gang of Idiots,” the nickname for the crew that put out the magazine.

 He was soon heavily involved in comic art of every description, and became one of its top practitioners for Mad Magazine, Trump, Playboy, and many other publications.

Jack has illustrated more than 100 books. He is an award-winning advertising artist with countless print ads to his credit. He’s a much imitated comic book artist and a prolific magazine illustrator​ for Esquire, Playboy, LIFE, and many others​. He worked for MAD - off and on - for 46 years. He’s a world-renowned caricaturist. He has illustrated​ many magazine covers including 23 for TV Guide​ ​and for ​25 ​for ​TIME magazin​e. He has done ​more than 65 record album covers and more than 40 movie posters in addition to animation, games, calendars, greeting cards​ and ​t-shirt designs.

Mr. Davis was a prolific artist, drawing posters for movies like “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “The Long Goodbye,” as well as record album covers.

The National Cartoonists Society honored him with a lifetime achievement award in 1996, and he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2005.

​Jack retired in 2014 at the age of 90.​

http://floobynooby.blogspot.com/2011/01/jack-davis.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/64387469658592064/

This is the 4th post of Jack Davis' art, and nothing repeated. That he designed a Coca Cola training manual cover, still surprises me https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-1949-artist-jack-davis-was.html

Roger Dean art as a response to the flying elephant helicopter (Thanks Kim!)

Of course flying elephants would remind annyone that's seen the above album cover art that it's not a unique idea (after all, Dumbo was created in the 1930s https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-dumbo-animation-20190329-story.html )

and when looking at the artists other album cover art, this one was striking me as in the same genre as flying elephants, and dodos. 

His art is very similar to the book cover art of the John Carter Of Mars series, and the Edgar Rice Burroughs other book series cover art, similar to Michael Whelen, and has the color factor of Maxfield Parrish a bit. 

You'll probably enjoy quite a bit of it https://www.rogerdean.com/paintings  it's so very 60's and 70's airbrush and fantasy stuff... no doubt a lot was added to the sides of vans

Roger Dean, born 1944, is an English artist and designer who is best known for his work on posters and album covers for progressive rock bands like Yes, Asia and Uriah Heep.

After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1968, Dean became involved with the music industry when he was commissioned to design the album cover for the first Gun LP. Many other covers should follow until 1974, usually for hard rock

A thorough look at his album cover art: http://www.cvinyl.com/coverart/rogerdean.php

https://tradingboundariesfineart.com/artworks/categories/4/85-roger-dean-osibisa-tankheads-2015/

https://popdose.com/popdose-prime-top-10-roger-dean-album-covers/

It shouldn't surprise anyone that album cover art is a source of a lot of vehicle art, or really damn good photography, I've already covered the album cover art of Barry E. Jackson on ZZ Tops 1980s albums, and Ron Cobb, the variety of amazing stuff on Westminster Gold albums,  Guy Webster photography   and dozens of some other mostly unknown stuff: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/album%20cover%20art 

Ann Margaret was just interviewed about riding her Harley in the press junket about the release of her latest musical collaboration album. She says she still rides her Harley, at age 81.

It's fascinating to me to read interviews that dive into a celebs life before they became famous, because it's discovering what they did and who they were before the Hollywood machine took over to pump up their "buzz" or ratings, or whatever.

I had no idea she grew up in Sweden, and didn't realize she was in Tommy, the Who's movie

One of the great beauties, and such a pleasure to enjoy in the Grumpy Old Men movies. Why Triumph or some chopper company isn't courting her to be in their advertising is a mystery to me. She absolutely is the most famous photo of a woman on a motorcycle that I can think of, in that 1971 Douglas Kirkland photo:

Her new album, Born To Be Wild, was released April 14 by Cleopatra Records and features guest appearances by the Who’s Pete Townshend, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, soul legend Steve Cropper, and Yes’ Rick Wakeman, among many others.

The first single is a cover of the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love,” which features Townshend, Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom, and veteran country singer/songwriter T.G. Sheppard. Throughout Born To Be Wild, Ann-Margret covers a host of vintage rock favorites, such as “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Rock Around the Clock,” “Earth Angel,” and “Splish Splash.”

“Being offered an opportunity to work with Ann-Margret, especially on an Everly Brothers song, was just too romantic to pass,” Townshend says. “Ann-Margret’s work on the Tommy movie back in 1974 (when she was most certainly not old enough to pretend to be Roger Daltrey’s mother) was a joy from beginning to end. Her sonorous voice, her Scandinavian beauty, her sense of humor, her stamina, and her strength all shone through.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/04/ann-margret-is-still-riding-her-harley-at-81

https://www.spin.com/2023/03/ann-margret-new-album/

https://www.nextavenue.org/faces-defined-60s-and-70s/

Her Vegas show back in 71 incorporated a Triumph, possibly the one above, but that era for her was around bikes, and she even did a biker movie with Joe Namath in 1970 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-1970-american-biker-film-starring-joe.html

Pontiac built excitement, and sponsored the Hall and Oates Big Bam Boom tour of '85

 

Promo item for their Big Bam Boom tour. The record itself is just a greatest hits album, interestingly it's sided as Side A and Side One.

The Fiero was the first two-seater Pontiac since the 1926 to 1938 coupes, and also the first and only mass-produced mid-engine sports car by a U.S. manufacturer.

https://totally80s.com/article/october-1984-hall-oates-make-big-bam-boom
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonrev/4655566412/in/photostream/

interesting to me, is that this isn't the 1st Hall and Oates post I've made, the one was about the diner on an album cover of theirs, one was about the car racing Oates did, one about the Porsche tractor, and another about the cover Hall and Oates did of Family Man  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=Hall+and+Oates

interesting cover art on Chemical Brothers 1995 album ‘Exit planet dust’

The cove was intentionally a world away from the 90's ‘fractals’ and computer graphics that adorned other dance albums of the time; as Ed told Medium in 2017, “We wanted something a bit more romantic and otherworldly with soft, nice colours. It’s the wrong way round as well — intentionally. “If me and Tom are in that picture we’re in the car going Oh she’s alright, I wish I had a guitar on my back with her.”

https://medium.com/12edit/chemical-brothers-about-hippie-cover-art-for-exit-planet-dust-af7b18a63216

I think it's a 68 Satellite 4 dr

the Staple Singers’ bestselling 1972 title Be Altitude ..... 50 years ago

Beginning in 1948, Roebuck “Pops” Staples and daughters Cleotha, Mavis, and Yvonne began singing in churches across Chicago. Pops had grown up in Drew Mississippi, next door to Charlie Patton, and played guitar with him, and Robert Johnson (legendary guitarists)

Staple Singers songs including 1955's "This May Be the Last Time" (later adapted by The Rolling Stones as "The Last Time") and "Uncloudy Day"

Songs Respect Yourself, and I'll Take You There are simply wonderful groovy stuff. 

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/staple-singers-be-altitude-50th-anniversary-edition/

posted for the fantastic music, but mostly, because of that album cover (I've posted a lot of album cover art over the years, even an album cover photographer) is unusual, using a airliner engine 

The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus was a bubblegum "supergroup" created by record producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz, consisting of various Super K Production groups. Probably the most cars ever on a album cover that weren't in a parking lot or aerial photo

For the first album, the fictitious concept was to take eight Kasenetz-Katz produced groups and bring them together for a "live" performance at Carnegie Hall on 7 June 1968. The roster included:

1910 Fruitgum Company
Ohio Express
Music Explosion
Lt. Garcia's Magic Music Box
Teri Nelson Group
1989 Musical Marching Zoo
J.C.W. Rat Finks
St. Louis Invisible Marching Band

According to the inner gatefold cover's liner notes, the "supergroup" consisted of 46 members.

Kasenetz-Katz came along and coined the term "Bubblegum", Their production company "Super K Productions" was a New York "bubblegum" hit factory, where a seemingly unending array of unusual sounding alias' were used in production so it wouldn't appear as the same group. In this manner Kasenetz-Katz managed to pull off a string of Top-40 hits in just under two years.

The generic 'Bubblegum" groups were manufactured in studios, some like "The Monkees" & "The Banana Splits" were made solely for TV. They prolifically recording lightweight, fluffy pop songs, mostly one-hit wonders and were often given quirky names. Below I've listed some of the groups that rolled off the "Super K Productions" conveyer belt.

• The Carnaby Street Runners                             • Chicago Prohibition 

• Crazy Elephant                                                  • J.C.W. Rat Finks 

• The Fat Man's Music Festival                           • The Flying Giraffe 

• The Charles E. Funk Rebellion                         • The Great Train Robbery 

• Lt Garcia's Magic Music Box                           • Music Explosion 

• 1989 Musical Marching Zoo                            • 1910 Fruitgum Company 

• Ohio Express                                                    • Professor Morrison's Lollipop 

• Shadows Of Knight                                          • St Louis Invisible Marching Band

https://invanddis.proboards.com/thread/6400/kasenetz-katz

https://www.discogs.com/release/10163248-The-Kasenetz-Katz-Singing-Orchestral-Circus-The-Kasenetz-Katz-Singing-Orchestral-Circus

https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1264#post-3420362

what a strange choice for an album cover

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-368#post-13418579

a bizarre place for an AMX to show up, the cover photo on a sample album for DJs to play in 1968

https://vinylempire.cz/bazarove-vinyly/2952-the-capitol-disc-jockey-album-november-1968-lp-vinyl.html   via   http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-913#post-3230111

see the rest of the 1968 album covers at https://hotvvheels.tumblr.com/post/178632158606/take-a-spin

album cover art website

Some are mystifying like the above harmonica- bus- sleigh?

some are amusing

http://elrancho--1.blogspot.com/