I love LP sleeve notes, me. They hark back to a simpler, more innocent time, before fancy artwork took over, to an era when the record companies felt they had to sell us the music via some florid prose and a litany of painfully earnest (and often painfully untrue) facts and figures about the artist(s) in question.
Looking back now, many sleeve notes read like something out of Dickens (or Mills & Boon). Which is why I love them so much.
Just like before, here are the sleeve notes from a famous album with the identifying words blacked out. All you have to do is tell us the album title and the artist(s) involved.
And, even though it’s a fairly labour-intensive business to join in, it would be great if others felt moved to post their own sleeve note challenge for us.
http://i.imgur.com/dm8OoQS.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
Now read on —->
Mousey says
OK, you’re on!
http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y448/MrMunkie/Liner%20notes_zpsupjlyeb8.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
Unless I’m mistaken, you’ve left a vital clue in the picture.
Mousey says
Erk – yes *hastily emails admins*
Arthur Cowslip says
(I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that, so when the admins remove it I can make a guess and look clever).
minibreakfast says
Haha!
mikethep says
Is it Biggles?
Vulpes Vulpes says
Must be an early Purple?
Johnny Concheroo says
A heavy rock album with sleeve notes? Whoever heard of such a thing?
hubert rawlinson says
I agree with the Foxy one, Shades of Deep Purple
Johnny Concheroo says
Exactly. It’s the first Deep Purple album from 1968.
Here are the full sleeve notes.
http://i.imgur.com/pVqGB2W.jpg
Black Celebration says
Well the album obviously has Hey Joe on it but the sleeve notes and the obviousness probably rules out Hendrix. And the notes are too clever and jaunty for a KTel copy thing, so you can put me down as a don’t know. Oh go on then – Rick Wakeman. Largely because of the wittiness.
Johnny Concheroo says
No, ‘fraid not. it’s a band. VV was almost there (above) despite my attempt to put him off the scent.
Johnny Concheroo says
Here’s another one. Quite far out for the time I think
http://i.imgur.com/4ls3cCH.jpg
hubert rawlinson says
No! go on who is it Mr Conch?
Sniffity says
If I didn’t know better, I’d guess Gary Numan produced by Joe Meek.
Johnny Concheroo says
Thank you for your interest. It was a 1966 EP by Manfred Mann called Machines with faux Jack Kerouac style sleeve notes by Tom McGuinness. I didn’t expect anyone to get it, but I thought it was interesting.
http://i.imgur.com/QIFRdIP.jpg
hubert rawlinson says
Ta Conchy will have a look for something later.
Sniffity says
As a youngster I always found Manfred Mann slightly confusing – there seemed to be a pair of identical twins who wore thick-rimmed glasses…there seemed to be no discernible reason for this to be so.
Johnny Concheroo says
That would be the eponymous Manfred and bassist Tom McGuinness. I think we did a thread about bands with horn rim wearing members started by @mikethep
Interestingly, around 1966, frontman Paul Jones and guitarist Mike Vickers left the band, to be replaced by Mike D’Abo and the Fabs’ old Hamburg mucker Klaus Voorman.
McGuinness switched to guitar and Klaus took over on bass.
Moose the Mooche says
I recommend Tom McG’s book So You Wanna Be A Rock’n’Roll Star if you can find it. Very honest and funny about the music industry.
Johnny Concheroo says
Tom has had a great life, starting out in The Roosters with a pre-Yardbirds Clapton. And just to amend my previous post, of course Jack Bruce played bass with Manfred Mann between Tom and Klaus and appears on their chart topper Pretty Flamingo
Moose the Mooche says
Also had a very good 70s in McGuinness Flint, making a shitload of money out of publishing and then ending up in the Blues Band. Not bad considering he can’t sing and wasn’t even that much of a guitarist until he was in his 40s. Terrific raconteur though.
Johnny Concheroo says
And now he’s touring with the Manfreds (minus Manfred himself). I saw them live last year, but Tom called off sick.
Johnny Concheroo says
OK pop pickers, I realise I’m pushing shit uphill with this one, as the Australian prime minster once said to the Queen. But I quite like this thread. So I’ll just do a few more then you can get back to your Showaddywaddy YouTube clips.
Here are some sleeve notes from 1965. Who knows from whence they came?
Ahh, those were the days, when people got excited about buying a packet of fags.
http://i.imgur.com/W3mCrLc.jpg
mikethep says
Wouldn’t be Marianne Faithfull, would it?
Kaisfatdad says
Good on you JC for paying homage to the long-lost art of the sleeve-note writer.
That really is quite a effectively gushy bit of writing.
Mim Farina …..Joni Mitchell….. Vashti Bunyan….. Judy Collins….Frank Zappa?
Johnny Concheroo says
Thanks KFD. Mike got it in one. From 1965 it’s the second self-titled LP by Marianne Faithfull. She really was every schoolboy’s dream, wasn’t she, chaps?
How were we to know she’d become an anorexic homeless junkie by the 70s?
http://i.imgur.com/PQ1A6Qt.jpg
Kaisfatdad says
Well done Mike!
This film consolidated her status as the ultimate schoolboy pinup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEOwybriej4
I saw it an impressionable age. The “plot” consisted of little more than Marianne getting dressed up in leathers, riding a large throbbing motocycle and then getting undressed. There were few complaints from the audience.
Moose the Mooche says
A few from the cleaners, though
Johnny Concheroo says
I went to the cinema to see this film on first release. I don’t recall much about the plot, but there was lots of slow unzipping of that leather body suit.
Moose the Mooche says
A lot of unzipping in the stalls too.
Thank the lord for home video.
*shudder*
Johnny Concheroo says
If only I hadn’t worn my 501s that day things might have been so different. That’s what I told the magistrate, anyway
Moose the Mooche says
PS. @johnny-concheroo what is “second self-titled LP” ??? The correct nomenclature is “eponymous sophomore effort”, as you well know.
I am concern!
Johnny Concheroo says
I was tempted to use “eponymous” I must confess, but managed to restrain myself. As for sophomore…
mikethep says
It was the heavy sweater that clinched it 😉
minibreakfast says
I didn’t realise she was a heavy sweater. Perhaps a side effect of being a heavy smoker?
Moose the Mooche says
I do like a lass in a nice bit of knitwear.
duco01 says
Mimi Fariña was certainly an interesting shout. If she’d had “Joan Baez on the record player”, as the sleeve notes say, she would’ve been enjoying one of her sister’s albums.
Johnny Concheroo says
Those punctuation-free mid-60s sleeve notes, as seen on Dylan albums, were hugely cool for a while, but they look a but clunky now, I feel.
Moose the Mooche says
See also the back of Scott 3. “Narcissus in Metamorphosis…. ” and all that bollix.
Declan says
epitomised by lowell george doing the same thing on counting backwards waiting for columbus last record album feats don’t fail me now sailin shoes and i would guess the debut and also third record dixie chicken although i can’t vouch for that as i’ve got the two originals package which probably cut the blurb for reasons of brevity on the sleeve anybody know get in touch
minibreakfast says
This might be a bit niche, depending on your age/tastes, but here goes:
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0458%202_zpsfuc0dflx.jpg
N.B. I would be a “knees-up-nellie”.
mikethep says
Is it Manuel and His Music of the Mountains?
minibreakfast says
Haha! No.
Johnny Concheroo says
Motown had several compilations titled 16 Big Hits (he said hopefully)
Kaisfatdad says
“Knees-up Nellie”: what a wonderful term. You don’t see many of those any more.
Are young people still necking, canoodling and spooning?
minibreakfast says
Maybe. But what’s a “gram deck” when it’s at home?
Johnny Concheroo says
Looks like a failed attempt to create a portmanteau word from gramophone and record deck.
hubert rawlinson says
We youngsters would fingerpop to the fab and groovy tunes our phonogram deck. Ah the joys of youth.
Ou sont les neiges d’antan?
Oh and is it Mrs Mills?
minibreakfast says
Nope.
Sniffity says
This reads a bit like those “Top Of The Pops” LPs
Kaisfatdad says
Ou sont les negligées d’antan?
Your post made me think of Mrs Mills in her frilly nightwear, Hubert.
minibreakfast says
A bit more:
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0460_zps17lxdpcb.jpg
Moose the Mooche says
Needs to sort his head out about this Johnny Worth thing.
It’s not Geoff L. is it?
mikethep says
Well, it’s certainly not Manuel & His Music of the Mountains 🙂
Is it Edelweiss hitmaker Vince Hill?
John Worth is actually quite interesting. As Les Vandyke, he wrote most of Adam Faith’s hits, as well as this.
https://youtu.be/AdeXqBJPnNw
minibreakfast says
Mr Worth, as Les Vandyke, wrote all the music on this album. The arranger in question hails from Scotland. His most famous work is probably the theme to a certain TV show.
Wait a minute – “actually quite interesting”? Your surprise is a little insulting, Mr Thep 🙂
minibreakfast says
^^^CLUES ^^^
Moose the Mooche says
Andy Stewart?
minibreakfast says
Och, nooooooo!
minibreakfast says
Geoff Love? Manuel (also Mr Love)?! Mrs Mills?!! Is this how you lot see my record ‘collection’? And I’ll have you know, young Sniffity, I don’t have any Top Of The Pops albums. Er, except that one I bought a couple of weeks ago for the Space Oddity cover. Um…
JQW says
Johnny Keating, isn’t it?
minibreakfast says
Hurray! Here’s the sleeve in all its glory.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/4_zpsfclzegke.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
That a great sleeve. Look at those cats go!
Interesting record collector fact.
Ace of Clubs was Decca’s budget label releasing only music by UK artists.
There was a sister label Ace of Hearts which released material by American and non-UK artists.
John Walters says
Think I’ve still got a John Mayall album on Ace of Clubs. ” The Blues Alone”.
Johnny Concheroo says
One of the biggest sellers on Ace Of Clubs and one of few to receive a CD release 20 years down the track.
Another one was Raw Blues a various artists Brit blues compilation with pictures of Clapton and Mayall on the sleeve (taken at the Beano Album cover shoot!). Although that one is long deleted on CD.
mikethep says
And another one from a little further back was this corker.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/billy-fury-billy-fury-vinyl-record-lp-ace-of-clubs-1960-45056-p_zpsnall7c7j.jpg
Raw Blues wasn’t strictly Brit only, containing as it did Champion Jack Dupree, Otis Spann and Curtis Jones, though I suppose CJD was an honorary Brits at the time.
Johnny Concheroo says
I think the US artists on Raw Blues were recorded in the UK and backed by British musicians (thus qualifying for the Ace Of Clubs “British recordings” proviso). And as you say CJD actually lived in Britain (Halifax!) at the time.
minibreakfast says
There are four medleys, three of them fairly ordinary, but the first, “Hully Gully”, is fantabulously groovy. Here are those notes in full, plus a close-up of the man himself.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0462_zpsbfvajj6u.jpg
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0461_zpse67bmvsa.jpg
minibreakfast says
The TV theme was of course Z Cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cQh-b11vcM
Moose the Mooche says
Haggis eh? Love that racial stereotyping!
I wouldn’t know Johnny Keating from John Keats. My loss, evidently!
minibreakfast says
I think if you were dancing to this in ’64 you’d be considered a bit square, but I love it.
Johnny Concheroo says
I seriously did consider the Z Cars theme but then remembered it was based on the traditional tune “Johnny Todd” and so dismissed it.
hubert rawlinson says
Here you go, I hope.
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u577/Mrpolly/sleeves_zpskbnvknmt.jpg
Kaisfatdad says
Swarbrick is playing, so I was suspecting some kind of Fairport connection. But then this bloke is some kind of world champíon…..
Football? Boxing? Wrestling? Table tennis?
hubert rawlinson says
One of those is correct, I saw him sing with Fairport once at Cropredy..
Peanuts Molloy says
Here he is!
hubert rawlinson says
Well done it was Brian’s debut album. He made another with even more Fairport members.
duco01 says
Crikey. I’d never heard of this guy Brian Maxine.
Next you’ll be telling me that the album had Kendo Nagasaki on psaltery and Giant Haystacks on crumhorn.
hubert rawlinson says
They were on Brian Maxine’s ill fated medieval/renaissance album tentatively called ‘Brian Maxine gets Medieval on your Ass’ Alas never released.
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u577/Mrpolly/bria_zpszvkxlzrv.jpg
hubert rawlinson says
Here is in in 82 with Fairport.
minibreakfast says
I got another Johnny Keating record at the weekend. No sleeve notes, but a groovy cover.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20161028_162731_zpsggio132h.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
Here’s one more. Probably not that hard, but I couldn’t resist it, if only for possibly the first mention of Jimmy Page on a record sleeve.
From 1964, let’s read all about Big Jim and Little Jim.
http://i.imgur.com/fmB6jIr.jpg
mikethep says
Big Jim and Little Jim …Sheffield lad Dave Berry’s first album by any chance?
Johnny Concheroo says
That’s it! Well done Mike. I haven’t looked at this LP for decades and had no idea Jimmy Page (then just a session man) was credited so prominently 4 years before Led Zep were dreamed of.
http://i.imgur.com/dFDb9pC.jpg
mikethep says
I had (still do, for all I know) the My Baby Left Me/Hoochie Coochie Man single, and I always seemed to know that Little Jim did the guitar work, including the blinding solo , although I can’t have done at the time.
Johnny Concheroo says
I knew Page played on some of the Dave Berry singles (especially The Crying Game) but only found out after Zeppelin became big around 1969
Colin H says
You might enjoy thid LP, JC – essentially Bobby Graham & Jimmy P in January 1965 getting a load of their sessioning mates in, writing some tunes, covering some others, and getting a big cheque from French labelmaestre Eddie Barclay:
https://www.discogs.com/Le-London-All-Star-British-Percussion/release/2428847
Those credits in full:
Arranged By – Nicky Welsh
Bass – Alan Weighell*, Arthur Watts
Drums – Andy White, Ronnie Verral*
Engineer – Bob Auger
Horn – Jim Buck Sr*, Jim Buck Jr
Lead Guitar – Jimmy Page
Organ – Kenny Salmon
Percussion – Barry Morgan, Eric Allan*
Photography – Hulard
Piano – Arthur Greenslade
Producer, Liner Notes – Bobbie Graham*
Rhythm Guitar – Johnnie Mac Cloughlin*
Saxophone – Bill Skeets*, Don Honeywell*, Keith Bird, Rex Morris, Roy Willox
Trombone – Jack Thurwell*
Trumpet – Albert Hall (2), Bert Ezard, Ray Davis*, Stan Roderick
Trumpet [Tenor] – Gib Wallace, Johnnie Edwards, Keith Christie
Johnny Concheroo says
I suspect it’s only me and @mikethep playing this game now, but here another golden oldie for y’all to have a crack at.
Note: his group is not a “raving” group.
http://i.imgur.com/50H5CwP.jpg
Moose the Mooche says
The big beat…. it could be Bentley Rhythm Ace.
hubert rawlinson says
I’m playing I just don’t have a clue.
Johnny Concheroo says
Thank you anyway hubert!
Johnny Concheroo says
“The leader…..then lambasts the vellum of a tambourine with all the venom of a boxer getting at a punch-bag”
Ee, they knew how to have a good time in them days.
Here’s the sleeve notes from the second album by the group/artist above.
http://i.imgur.com/SkqDMsR.jpg
NigelT says
The mention of Jack Baverstock probably means it is a Fontana release….Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders..?
Johnny Concheroo says
Very good. Was Jack the Fontana in-house publicist/sleeve note guy as well as the recording manager?
The sleeve notes are from the first two Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders LPs, 1964 & 65 respectively:
http://i.imgur.com/BJMte5F.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ReCXBCH.jpg
NigelT says
The name rang a bell for some reason. Just fact checked….this is from the Phillips website….
In 1958 Philips created a subsidiary record label Fontana and appointed Jack Baverstock (who had worked for the New Musical Express and had assisted in introducing the Top Twenty charts to the UK), as the label’s A&R Manager. Jack had previously also produced discs for Oriole and Embassy Records.
http://www.philipsrecords.co.uk/Fontana%20Records.html
NigelT says
I never knew that Fontana released CBS material before they set up their own operation in the UK. I knew they released licensed Island product from Chris Blackwell and Vanguard stuff (Joan Baez in particular).
Johnny Concheroo says
I knew that Philips (Fontana’s parent company) handled CBS material in the UK before they got their own imprint around 1960/61. All those early Johnny Mathis and Doris Day albums (and even a Johnny Cash LP or three) appeared on Philips in the UK before CBS was established.
Johnny Concheroo says
That’s good research Nigel.
The Woolworth’s Embassy label was, of course, part of the Oriole label.
mikethep says
*pant, puff* Only just got here. You won’t believe this, but Manchester and tambourine put Wayne and his Mindbenders into my head – but Nigel got there first. Teach me to lie in of a Sunday morning…
Johnny Concheroo says
I left Manchester in thinking it may be a bum steer, leading to Freddie & the Dreamers or the Hollies.
Declan says
And there’s your man from 10CC looking very young indeed.
Johnny Concheroo says
And future Macca collaborator too
Sniffity says
He’s always had an expression of smirking smugness to me…mind you, with his output, he can probably get away with it.
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s probably worth a thread of its own: seemingly anonymous beat boom band members who went on to eclipse their original groups
Johnny Concheroo says
Wayne Fontana had a sad end to his career, of course.
From Wiki:
In 2005, he fought off bankruptcy but was arrested after police were called by bailiffs who went to his home in Glossop, Derbyshire. He poured petrol on the bonnet of a bailiff’s car and set it alight with the bailiff still inside. Fontana was remanded in custody on 25 May 2007. He later appeared at Derby Crown Court dressed as Lady Justice, complete with a sword, scales, crown, cape and dark glasses, and claiming “justice is blind”. He dismissed his lawyers. On 10 November 2007 he was sentenced to 11 months for setting fire to the car but was released because he had already served the equivalent of the term, having been held under the Mental Health Act 1983. After his release he settled in Spain. Fontana continues to perform, notably in the Solid Silver 60s Shows.
Johnny Concheroo says
“I got close to going berserk”. High praise indeed.
Here’s an interesting one. The writer of these sleeve notes is probably better known to most of us here than the artist in question. I’m expecting great things from @Colin-h here, by the way.
Two answers please.
http://i.imgur.com/xezk185.jpg
Junior Wells says
The Doors
Richard Meltzer
Junior Wells says
Hmmm no way it’s them – silly nomination
Johnny Concheroo says
No, not the Doors.
mikethep says
Massive clue left in there, JC – my lips are sealed, unless/until…
Johnny Concheroo says
I can’t see it, unless it was their hometown? If that’s not it, maybe send me a PM?
Junior Wells says
How about Electric Flag ?
Junior Wells says
and Ralph Gleason
Johnny Concheroo says
Good answers both, but not correct
Junior Wells says
complete guess 1 : HP Lovecraft
complete guess 2 : Robert Palmer as the writer of the liner notes
Johnny Concheroo says
No, sorry.
That would have been funnier had it been HP Lovecraft with sleeve notes by HP Saucecraft
Colin H says
Is it The Flock?
Johnny Concheroo says
And the sleeve note author?
Colin H says
well, I have the album but I can’t recall offhand (and I didn’t recognise the note – mustn’t have read it in decades). Go on, tell us…
PS This may surprise you, but I had the first Flock album (which is brilliant) long before I owned any Mahavishnu albums. An uncle gave me his copy for some reason, when I was about 14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-oOLTal79o
Johnny Concheroo says
Yes, it’s the first album by The Flock and sleeve notes by the king of the blues boom – John Mayall
http://i.imgur.com/4sNNmEn.jpg
Colin H says
we’ve not heard that blues boom talked about round here much. Do you know anything about it, JC?
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s something of a niche topic Colin, discussed only in hushed tones in the most far-flung recesses of the Afterword. Or the “dark blog”, as I like to call it.
Colin H says
It’s anagram for ‘slob muse Bo’ – clearly, a load of people dressing scuffily and playing turgid extemporisations on Bo Diddley riffs. which isn’t too far from the truth, is it?
Colin H says
or, indeed, ‘be slob muso’…
Johnny Concheroo says
Bet Hobos Mule
Colin H says
Drat – just realised I used the S twice. But then you’ve cheated and added ‘the’… 🙂
Johnny Concheroo says
Be Subtle Homo
Colin H says
Mob Use Hotel (on the foreign tours, naturally)
mikethep says
Or indeed O lesbo bum…
Johnny Concheroo says
We cater for all orientations in the world of the 12-bar
Junior Wells says
I wondered about that but was thrown by the reference to gospel.
Junior Wells says
So the Jerry Goodman Mahavishnu connection
Johnny Concheroo says
Exactly!
Johnny Concheroo says
Intrigued by Mayall’s sleeve notes I played the Flock LP today for the first time in decades and was pleasantly surprised how good it is. It’s very much the Jerry Goodman show, with his violin all over every track, but there’s much else to enjoy.
With its avant garde classical-tinged instrumental flourishes, opening track Introduction could almost pass for the Mahavishnu Orchestra in places. Elsewhere things are more mainstream and there’s even a Kinks cover (Tired Of Waiting) and, gasp, a blues of sorts (the 15 minute extravaganza Truth). Guitarist Fred Glickstein is heard sparingly, but when he does stretch out, he’s a fiercely capable player.
The brass section recalls Chicago or Blood, Sweat & Tears at times and my only reservations are the vocals. Those distinctly American close harmony vocals (think: Vanilla Fudge) sound very dated now.
The back cover photo shows Goodman in full flight, his hair billowing in the breeze and it reminded me that the same picture was used for the front cover of the 1970 UK CBS sampler 2/LP set Fill Your Head With Rock. Most buyers probably didn’t know who he was at the time, I’ll warrant.
http://i.imgur.com/IiG1uMZ.jpg
Here’s The Flock in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKxzxab3hs
Johnny Concheroo says
Here’s another. The writer of these sleeve notes was a well-known BBC radio panel show kind of guy, so I can’t work out if he’s taking the piss here.
This one harks back to the very dawn of rock & roll (British rock & roll, anyway)
You won’t know the album, so let’s have the name of the artist and, if you’re feeling cocky, the author of the sleeve notes, too.
http://i.imgur.com/pD2Tqza.jpg
mikethep says
I’m thinking the pundit was probably Steve Race, choosing his words very carefully? As for the group, unless the word skiffle is a red herring, it can only be Lonnie Donegan – or possibly the Vipers. Or Chas McDevitt and Nancy Whiskey? I’m struggling here, but I imagine they were the only skifflers allowed to make an elpee.
Johnny Concheroo says
You’re half right there Mike.
mikethep says
Well I can’t be half right with a choice of 3 skiffle groups, so I must be right with Steve Race.
Johnny Concheroo says
To recap. One of the three artists you named is correct. But Steve Race is incorrect.
Sniffity says
Dennis Nordern?
Johnny Concheroo says
No, think jazz.
garyjohn says
Hi JC – I think it might be Benny Green.
Johnny Concheroo says
Correct Gary. And as Mike guessed it’s the one and only 10″ LP by The Vipers Skiffle Group from 1957. That’s future kids TV star Wally Whyton second right.
Sleeve notes are by Benny Green the jazz sax player turned doyen of radio panel shows.
His son Leo Green also plays sax and in 2005 was appointed Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, booking rock acts like Jeff Beck and Van Morrison,
As you can see, my copy has seen better days.
http://i.imgur.com/7AtC90B.jpg
NigelT says
Excellent! Those sleeve notes are quite prescient given what subsequently happened.
garyjohn says
He looks a bit different from his panel show days, but I think this Benny is playing on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIekZvhyrsk
Johnny Concheroo says
Yes! I forgot that jazzer Benny slummed it for a while with ersatz rock & roll instrumental outfit Lord Rockingham’s XI
Johnny Concheroo says
While Mike is thinking about the last one, here’s another easier one from the same era. Who is this?
http://i.imgur.com/rMo27hw.jpg
Sniffity says
Tommy Steele?
hubert rawlinson says
Tommy Steele?
I thought it was Steve Race above too, Gilbert Harding?
Johnny Concheroo says
Yes! It’s Tommy Steele from 1957 with one of several 10″ LPs he released around that time. He’s playing a big ass ol’ Hofner guitar on the cover there and the way his guitar strap is all gathered in the photo has been playing havoc with my OCD for decades.
Re. the earlier one. Not Gilbert Harding or Steve Race, although you’re on the right lines with jazz.
http://i.imgur.com/5YzmHLt.jpg
hubert rawlinson says
Not Gilbert Harding? How about Lady Isobel Barnett?
hubert rawlinson says
Humphrey Littleton?
Johnny Concheroo says
See above
Johnny Concheroo says
After seeing off the “Beatle Blight of ’64” this band “literally skyrocketed to European fame” .
But who are they?
It’s interesting how the entire UK/British Isles really just equates to “England” in the collective American consciousness.
http://i.imgur.com/qTeznn6.jpg
Sniffity says
I’m guessing…The Searchers.
Johnny Concheroo says
Bah! I mean, well done Sniff.
Yes, it’s the first US LP by the Searchers
http://i.imgur.com/igjrbHC.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
Famous band and an equally famous sleeve notes writer. Pseud’s Corner awaits, I suspect.
But who is it?
http://i.imgur.com/SsORKuY.jpg