LP cover: Help!

The Beatles on Capitol, 1965.

record as found, Deface Value

LP cover: Ghesseye Do Mahi

Gougoush on Ahang Rooz (Iran), 1960s

Jesse Kaminsky

78 RPM Record Labels, part 4

Someone in Riga, Latvia has a small collection of gorgeous 78s up for auction on Ebay. Moroccan folk, musette, calypso, Ghana highlife, and Congolese rumba are among the genres available. The collection will be dispersed around the world soon but in the meantime we can savor these delectable, rare labels.

alnimsaoui

see also: 78 RPM Record Labels, 78 RPM Record Labels, part 2, 78 RPM Record Labels, part 3

LP cover: I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me

James Brown on King Records, 1968

radiochantier

LP cover: Dit “Farka”

Ali Toure on Sonafric (France), 1979

Global Groove

LP cover: Patato & Totico

Carlos (Patato) Valdez and Eugenio (Totico) Arango, Verve Records, 1968.

LP cover: Tales of Manhattan

The Cool Philosophy of Babs Gonzales on Jaro Records, 1959.

Bob Jukic

LP cover: Shehnai Nawaz

Bismillah Khan on EMI (India), 1964

Anthems for the Nation of Luobaniya

EP cover: Donne-Moi Ma Chance

Sophia Loren on Barclay (France), early 60s.

silenta pop

 

LP cover: Quincy’s Home Again

Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold and his Swedish Radio Studio Orchestra on Metronome (Sweden), late 1950s