13 comments to Sexual Album Covers, 1950s / 1960s

  • CatM

    I read #19 as “Bent Henry the Wrong Way”. Ouch! I can see how that could happen, though.

  • David

    Music for Hangovers! I see what you did there.

  • Brian Gonigal

    I’d like to sincerely thank you for not including “Two Virgins”.

    …Although for another album cover in much the same vein as that, try doing a Google Image search of “The Sensuous Black Woman Meets The Sensuous Black Man” (you may have to adjust your safe search filter settings to get any hits).

  • NicktheLick

    I like them all, especially the second one! Very much! That first one at the top is meant to be quite the collectors item nowadays…

  • Jmo

    In 1987 Iwas record shopping with my girlfriend and I bought an Albert King record called “The Pinch,” the cover of which featured a picture of a woman’s nice hotpants-clad ass. A couple of years later, after the girl broke up with me, she denounced me to her friends for buying a record with such a sexist cover, even though she had pretended not to notice the sexism (or sexiness) on the day of purchase. I’m glad the record outlasted the girlfriend.

    • White Camry

      Sad to say, it’s not out on CD. :^(

      No loss there! :^)

    • White Camry

      In 1987 Iwas record shopping with my girlfriend and I bought an Albert King record called “The Pinch,” the cover of which featured a picture of a woman’s nice hotpants-clad ass.”

      Sad to say, it’s not out on CD. :^(

      ***

      A couple of years later, after the girl broke up with me, she denounced me to her friends for buying a record with such a sexist cover, even though she had pretended not to notice the sexism (or sexiness) on the day of purchase. I’m glad the record outlasted the girlfriend.

      No loss there! :^)

  • Eve

    So ‘Mad Men’ really was accurate when it split women in ads into ‘Jackies’ and ‘Marilyns.’

  • Michele

    Excellent post and excellent replies. A lot of these covers are featured in the book “Vixens of Vinyl”.

    http://www.amazon.com/Vixens-Vinyl-Alluring-Ladies-Vintage/dp/0811831345/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1329152817&sr=1-1

  • Richard Wills

    When I was a kid one of the records my parents brought home was Stravinsky’s La Sacre du Printemps. I must ave played that record a hundred times or more. But it was a different cover with only a nude woman on it.

    My sister Adrienne accused me of playing that recording just so I had an excuse to drool over the cover image of a naked lady.

    Well, duhh…I was a horny teenage boy.

    Some of my favorite memories are of my father’s Playboy mags and his collection of Sex to Sexty joke books and a deck of cards featuring nude photos of Marilyn Monroe.

  • Klattu

    herb alpert and the tijuana brass… “Whipped Cream”…whew !

  • Marc Purello

    And these were before Electric Ladyland, and Blind Faith…go figure.

  • Whipped Cream

    What about the cover to “Whipped Cream” by Herb Alpert?

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