The record store in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”

https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w640/108892-1532336916.jpg

post here when you notice interesting album covers, music mags, posters, or other good stuff

a good starting point: http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/04/13/alex-in-the-chelsea-drug-store/

https://media.giphy.com/media/Y3sjNVr0iXgGc/giphy.gif

In the record rack numbered 1-5 I spotted New York Rock Ensemble’s “Roll Over” and Iron Butterfly “Metamorphosis.”

Obviously After the Goldrush between Magical Mystery Tour and Atom Heart Mother

Don't really see the point of this thread when every single item visible in the store has been accurately identified on the webpage you posted.

I had fun in discovering this.

What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Cactus Flower (1969) with Goldie Hawn and Walther Matthau has a good one

Scroll down to get a couple of glimpses of Ingrid Bergman visiting record clerk Goldie Hawn:

http://onthesetofnewyork.com/cactusflower.html

Btw, the "Slipped Disc" discotheque you can also see there was a real-life discotheque called Trude Heller's.

Don't really see the point of this thread when every single item visible in the store has been accurately identified on the webpage you posted.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:13 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean, that webpage explicitly says:

When Alex wanders in he passes a large rack of albums, some of which elude my occasionally sketchy knowledge of 70s’ rock.

so in one picture e.g. there are maybe 12 or 13 visible covers and only five are identified.

lol I didn't even see/read the comments, so my "discoveries" were likely already discovered. I love things like this, we should just scatter/pose a bunch of our albums and photograph them. New ilm game thread.

Love that scene from Clockwork. Parts from the script:

INT. MUSIC BOOTICK ó DAY

Alex enters. Two pretty micro-boppers, Marty and Sonietta, sucking phallic ice sticks.

....

ALEX
Pardon me, ladies

He steps in between them and goes through the motions, looking through.

ALEX
Enjoying it then, my darling?... A bit cold and pointless isn't it, my lovely... What's happened to yours, my little sister?

Marty giggles.

MARTY
Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?

ALEX
What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players.
Come with Uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Hannah and Her Sisters

And what’s in that one

XXP - Made me wonder how many 80s/90s post punk/electronic bands were called Johhny Zhivago who never made it, Discogs says 5 at least.

something by some guy named Randy Wilson?

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-KoUc_l4nqRA%2FV7hBYkAz30I%2FAAAAAAAAmyw%2F9h67yiklRhstT3PygRDF3vFzVnekgIv_wCLcB%2Fs1600%2FHanna%252Band%252Bher%252Bsisters%252B-%252BWoody%252BAllen%252Bcon%252Bun%252Bdisco%252Ben%252Btienda.jpg&f=1

can't make out much here, not sure what she's carrying. Duran Duran poster duh:
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F94%2F6c%2F72%2F946c72515eead79161fa222d92be7ab1.jpg&f=1

I think I see Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water in the back there

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F60%2F04%2F44%2F600444cff6707bc01e11c58ecf6f3176--hannah-and-her-sisters-woody-allen.jpg&f=1

oh wait I guess that's Randy Weston, not Wilson

talented mr ripley (i think a lot of the records you see are anachronistic)
https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc47dceb038a6cffc72e3043c0e7004a/tumblr_mzvicnftf51rcnnxco1_1280.jpg

My favorite part of that Hannah scene is this old guy in the background of another shot inspecting a copy of Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore.

here's a good one

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvinylradar.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F04%2FJackie-Brown.jpg&f=1

Relevant Threads:

Sad vinyl fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around vinyl records?

movies wherein vinyl records are played

Can you identify any/all of the albums in the photo on the back cover of DJ Shadow, Endtroducing?

What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Godard, "Vivre sa Vie"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Pvt-lxYI-o/TuYl3i5oUVI/AAAAAAAAAmk/lqf3ZFxbDJY/s1600/karina-recordstore.png

Couple of Fassbinder films:

1. "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok" - funny scene where the titular character goes to a record shop to buy a single he'd heard on the radio for his wife, but he doesn't know the title or the artist, so he has to try to first describe the song and then sing it to the two giggly (female) shop assistants.

2. "The Third Generation" - one of the main characters works in a futuristic record shop, which looks amazing.

Pretty In Pink: Molly works at Wax Trax!

http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pretty-pink-record-store.jpg

ooh cool. look, there's a Kendra Smith record!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D1t9z-z591U/TcFRLchlIzI/AAAAAAAAA_w/vrYNcs9tZw8/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-04-23-02h35m35s96.png

and The Residents

I think I spotted a UB40 record and a Wah record.

American Gigolo

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TwF14j_FOqc/UOu7GfeID0I/AAAAAAAAEJQ/_JZoX7_t05U/s1600/GIGOLO_03_Title_1_00003.jpg

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/14847739/960full-american-gigolo-%281980%29-screenshot.jpg

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/14847738/960full-american-gigolo-%281980%29-screenshot.jpg

lol I don't recognize a single thing in that store

was surprised at how bad + boring that movie is when I watched it last year tbh

Also spotted in that Hannah scene: big promo for Barry Gibb's solo record. That and the poster for D'Jran D'Jran's Arena would put filming in late '84.

lol @ this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9l2kjjFw8

Fast Times: Damone using the life-size Debbie Harry cutout from a Blondie display at the mall record store to explain his 'Five-Point Plan' to Ratner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZSPYdJxCVc

Big Streisand display in background.

Nice one

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9I3j6LKDY

https://i.redd.it/j2zqwi7se1w01.png

As mentioned above, Fassbinder's "Die Dritte Generation"

https://d1uzk9o9cg136f.cloudfront.net/f/16781437/rc/2018/09/27/9ef0bf56938b1a85bd317fff700d3c428c1b4d29_xlarge.jpg

... and "Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?"

http://worldscinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warum-l%c3%a4uft-Herr-R.-Amok-19703-e1544291660597.png

my god, even their record sleeves were drab and colorless

Can't images or a clip, but there's that bit in The Man Who Fell To Earth where Rip Torn walks past a display of Bowie albums in a record store.

Love on the Run

https://pic.pimg.tw/giselemine/1387850637-3249304288_n.jpg

Cactus Flower (1969) with Goldie Hawn and Walther Matthau has a good one

http://onthesetofnewyork.com/locations/cactusflower/cactusflower24.jpg

at the top there's the roberto gerhard/maxwell davies, messiaen & xenakis releases from this series

Hm! Was wondering what those were.

More Goldie:

https://i0.wp.com/clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Cactus-Flower_Ingrid-Bergman-Goldie-Hawn-yellow_cap.jpg

And:

https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html

Sorry - you gotta scroll down again:

https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html

love those stills, thanks J

Pretty off-topic, but I’m watching Sixteen Candles — a cassette of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music is seen (but not heard) playing in the party scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjfJlCDisY

Before Sunrise had a record store in Vienna called Alt & Neu:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1oeI_YTvkMU/SG4NVy6APhI/AAAAAAAAHsw/ICNhKn3VxJg/s1600-h/Before_sunrise_music_shop.jpg

https://coffeebeanzandtealeavez.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/995bsr_ethan_hawke_011.jpg

https://vimeo.com/263697150

It's a real record shop as well.

Beaver joins a record club...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wm9c3

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With had a scene shot in Atomic Records IIRC

alas i have no screencaps

Deleted mall scene from X-Men Apocalypse

https://i.imgur.com/oeuqPQYl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/C1Zu0Cnl.jpg

Only things I recognize off the bat are Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Madman Across the Water, and Cats.

Oh, and Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Payolas' "Hammer On A Drum" is on the far left there

Andreas Vollenweider White Winds and the Kristofferson/Streisand soundtrack for A Star is Born.

Payolas! I was trying to figure that out like, "Crayolas? Loyolas?"

The light grey one with a picture of Anne Murray is "Anne Murray's Greatest Hits".

The Fixx Reach the Beach is next to the Elton John record.

haha xp Between "Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby" and "Madman Across the Water" is "Reach The Beach" by The fix (I think). And I reckon the one second from theleft in that row is "Anytime... Anywhere" by Rita Coolidge.

Wow, this one is really paying off.

The other side of Madman is another Elton LP, Victim of Love.

It took me a while to figure it out, but yellow dress in the first pic is Larger Than Life by Jody Watley.

wtf is on those horizontally stacked shelves in the Before Sunrise shot?

(T-)Shirts?

I guessed it was sheet music.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xEydCkbSnIk/VJT29l5uPwI/AAAAAAAAfxs/_UiWlZmpBdA/s1600/38.%2Bthe%2Bvisitor.png

is that a real record? seems unlikely

no. but, Jim O'Rourke did name his 2009 album after it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-kjSKaP0I

but that was the only photo I could find of the final scene, which takes place in a record shop.

XP That's the album Bowie's character releases. As I pointed out upthread, Torn passes a display for Young Americans in the same scene.

Recent example - Heart Beats Loud (2018)

https://i.imgur.com/iWgmZsx.jpg

haha

"Can't things... just be pretty?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxOc9D4dr0

This Christmas 1968 scene in Scrooged. In the window display (from different camera angles): Kinks, Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, The Zombies, The Electric Flag, Hair soundtrack and some others I can't quite make out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40rjU0r7oU

VU is the only anomaly, no?

VU & Nico came out in early '67, so no.

I think they all line up for the time period. Mitch Glazer co-wrote the screenplay, and had previously written for Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy so I'm guessing he had a hand in making sure it was accurate (though skewed with hindsight).

oh yeah Scrooged takes place in NYC. VU & Nico wouldn't have been in every record store in America like the rest.

The weird thing is that it's still in the window in late '68...and that 1968 Bill Murray looks just like 1988 Bill Murray.

...also the text on the vu & nico cover would suggest it's a late seventies or eighties reissue

(xp) Mullets were not a thing in 1968.

Somebody had one, I'll betcha

Bill Murray.

I had forgotten there's a good one in Peggy Sue Got Married but I can't find a screenshot.

Nicolas Cage sells a skeptical client on some Dvorak

also this scene in Juice, where they steal some records
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAR0frIn-uPs%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

That "Peggy Sue" scene is a great one.

I wouldn't really recommend watching PENNY SERENADE (1941) but the record store scene is kind of amazing: was that what record shops were like in 1941? Runs from about 3.30 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiNtZJItjE

Artie Fufkin, Polymer Records, with Spinal Tap

https://bestclassicbands.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Spinal-Tap-Artie-Fufkin.jpg

The Prisoner, Episode 15, "The Girl Who Was Death"

Potter tells Number 6 he is to go to Booth 7 in the Magnum Record shop to receive his instructions. Magnum Record was a fictitious business created for the story. The exterior of the store was shot at 187 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, now a Barnardo's thrift store.

Number 6 receives his mission message from a record played at the Magnum Record shop.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C3bsxXFaH3A/TdtWdTTUxuI/AAAAAAAAA38/GQaHzgtARAo/s1600/PDVD_483.BMP

There's another scene involving buying records in Episode 10, "Hammer Into Anvil".

Having left the Green Dome, Number 6 observes the posters in the bay window of the General Stores. “Music begins where words leave off,” “Music says all,” And “Music makes for a quiet mind.” He enters the General Stores, selects a copy of The Tally Ho, then examining the sleeves of a selection of LP records, he selects the Davier recording of Bizet’s L’arlesienne and wants to hear it, well all six copies of the record as a matter of fact. But surely they are all the same!

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nDaW5hmq784/Wo7MMCOyEMI/AAAAAAAAf8g/7fLZLv-6AKQI3HAFqXgFK7_Ys-6jwnK7gCLcBGAs/s1600/PDVD_009.BMP

THE DAY THE MUSIC STORE DIED = when they were no longer jampacked with little promotional statues of nipper imo

that Penny Serenade scene is really cool, thanks

"You're like a plaintiff memory..."

melody, sorry

The 400 Blows had a record store scene, iirc.

The first gal with whom Cary Grant interacts in that "Penny Serenade" scene = the "High Fidelity" clerk of that era.

Tom D I'm pretty sure that's "Smell the Glove" by Spinal Tap, but I'd need a better pic to be sure

just putting this here cuz why not also becuz of prominently displayed copy of Lou's "The Blue Mask"
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F5xillqqt0Y0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

I wouldn't really recommend watching PENNY SERENADE (1941) but the record store scene is kind of amazing: was that what record shops were like in 1941?

I think so, because there's confirmation in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), where in an early scene Betty Hutton is a clerk at a record store which looks a lot like the one in Penny Serenade - sheet music gets a lot of display space, and they sell musical instruments on the side. The clerk plays the records for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_NSRTsoUkY

looks like Blackmarket Records...

and the Penny Serenade shop looks more like a music shop that sells records rather than a record shop, much the same way Rumbelows used to sell records.

It was more the super-refined atmos and quality decor (plus basically no promo past the statue of Nipper) that I was surprised by, not sure why, and I don't recall Rumbelows being quite like that.

Layout-wise this one wouldn't be so different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAB7zM_49d0

There's another scene involving buying records in Episode 10, "Hammer Into Anvil".

i suspect but cannot prove that this may be a parody of a very similar scene in the first episode of bruce geller's "mission: impossible" (when adam schiff was still the MI team lead).

hammer into anvil is one of my favorite episodes; there's something very comforting to me about seeing mcgoohan spend an hour straight gaslighting an abusive bully.

I think so, because there's confirmation in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), where in an early scene Betty Hutton is a clerk at a record store which looks a lot like the one in Penny Serenade - sheet music gets a lot of display space, and they sell musical instruments on the side. The clerk plays the records for you.

god, is that an oktavist she's lip-syncing to? anyway if i was running a music store in 1943 i wouldn't be pushing records too hard myself, what with the recording ban and all! (that's still a little amazing to me, that unions had enough clout to institute a ban on RECORDING ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS for several years straight.)

when did musical instrument stores and record stores become separate entities?

XP - Hammer Into Anvil is the best, such a great episode, for years now I will quote 'it takes a Frenchman' at the drop of a hat.

christ that Rockers scene is so great

xps

Can anyone identify the LP that Martha Plimpton is listening to, in her first scene in Running on Empty? It’s something Africa-related:

https://i.imgur.com/54qXONF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

"Trouble in Africa" by Papa Levi

Thanks!

The records and CDs of Edward Cullen (Twilight 2008)

https://i.imgur.com/XQpErIV.png

https://i.imgur.com/STL0KSb.png

https://i.imgur.com/QPYSJ5C.png

This is probably nigh-impossible with the second half of the CD shelf, but it caught my eye. Portishead Portishead is in the first half, along with Dwight Yoakam Live and others. My first time watching!

(if you open image in a new tab, you should be able to see much larger pics)

Squinting my eyes I can just about make out Billie Holiday, Vicente Fernandez, The Afters...

CD Maxi Single of You'll Never Get To Heaven by 54-46.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVhHOogIlw

Black Keys first album

Johnny Cash

The one right before the spherical bookend is Escape by Journey.

Ha! That Johnny Cash is his "Artist's Choice" mix from Starbucks!

Good catch!

I see Aerosmith - Get a Grip in the bottom image

The Afters - Beautiful Love

The Origin - Bend

The Billie Holiday Collection Vol 3

Is the one on the far right top pic Escape by Journey?

Immediately to left of ball that is.

lol @ "You'll Never Get To Heaven", that is some deep easter egg shit

In He's All That – the recent (and not recommended) "gender switch" remake of She's All That – the "outcast" dude who gets a makeover is said to be into "punk music" (or something). In his first scene, he's wearing a NY Dolls T-shirt... later you see him in a Stooges "The Weirdness" tee... and finally he shows up in a GG Allin tee. It's like – OK, we get it.

I see Aerosmith - Get a Grip in the bottom image

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, September 8, 2021 3:05 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I knew that one looked familiar!

Franky Perez - Poor Man's Son next to the Billie Holiday.

the blues magoos' psychedelic lollipop at the front of the pile of lps sitting on the floor

Cool!

I once watched a Law & Order rerun (circa S4) in which a young suspect had Bullet LaVolta, Unsane, and Mission of Burma posters hanging on his apartment wall.

The June of '44 poster in A Scanner Darkly always freaks me out a bit.

Never noticed until now that Ferris Bueller has a poster in his bedroom of Simple Minds “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” That’s so meta.

I’m watching American Gigolo, it’s pretty boring so far… but at the end of a scene where Richard Gere gets dressed while singing along to The Miracles’ “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage,” he turns off the stereo and there’s a nice shot of a Grace Jones album and some other records I can’t identify:

https://i.imgur.com/L43gdHw_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

(I see now this movie was also mentioned upthread, and also called out as boring, but not this particular scene)

Well I'm guessing the yellow rectangle is a Deutsche Grammophon release but the others are a mystery

“Black and Blue” by The Rolling Stones is poking out at the bottom right there.

Watching Everybody Wants Some!!, another boring movie… there’s a scene where one guy goes through another guy’s album collection, and walks off with Neil Young’s Decade.

IIRC, you also see Carly Simon's first Greatest Hits album and Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! among his albums in that film.

Yeah I noticed the Devo album for sure.

Knocked Up has a record store scene:

https://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/KnockedUp/RecordStore2.jpg

Rogan & Rudd have a brief conversation with four or five LP covers clearly visible in the rack facing the camera (but they’re not interesting enough to list).

Tommy, Who Are You, and The Kids Are Alright

The Tubes' self-titled in the middle row, fourth from right.

Bob Marley's Kaya next to Tommy

Rattle & Hum next to the end of the top row (four down from Tommy)

Bottom right under Who Are You: Allman Brothers, Brothers and Sisters

Top row, 3rd from left: Countdown to Ecstasy?

Bob Marley and the Wailers Live to the right of Tommy

I think one down from Kaya is "Every Picture Tells A Story" by Rod Stewart

Extreme lower left of the photo, the small bit of shelving nearest the camera, middle shelf: Nick Drake, Pink Moon

thread of interest

Twitter's dying, it's time for some real content.

So I came in to to living room to find Dad watching Only Fools and Horses with the sound off and pausing it at random frames.

"I was trying to work out what records he's selling in his stall."

So we worked them out together pic.twitter.com/H7TI7UYQqE

— get ahead - Kathy Griffin (@fireh9lly) November 18, 2022

Watching Less Than Zero (a clumsy, artless movie)… there’s a scene where Robert Downey Jr. breaks into his dad’s house, picks up a CD copy of Robert Palmer’s Riptide, and is about to put it on the stereo… but his dad walks in, and apparently isn’t a fan:

https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

(maybe he was waiting for Heavy Nova to come out)

Btw – the (Rick Rubin–supervised) music in this movie is bewilderingly uncool... it's mostly classic rock and trashy stuff like Poison covering "Rock and Roll All Nite." There's almost no hip, youth-oriented music of the day (even the big Bangles song is, of course, a throwback).

Then again, maybe it's true to the milieu / characters, and their expected taste profile (I did also once pull up next to Rubin driving a convertible in or near Beverly Hills, true to the film).

Have you read the book? The characters are a bit hipper and there's a set piece at an X concert at the Whisky.

I haven't... I did read the plot on Wikipedia (and – eek)!

One other thing about the music in the movie is that some of the cues are super corny, and meant to "complement" the action... like Hendrix's "Fire" is playing in a club as Downey lights a crack pipe (geddit?), etc.

(Downey’s performance is good, btw)

Diana Rigg, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWRzZsWAAAMKJZ.jpg

Aw. I was listening to that Jobim just the other day.

top left lp is josh white i would say

That Diana Rigg picture is too good to miss.

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/diana-rigg0_1.jpg

A few years ago I had discovered two photographs of Diana Rigg on the net, one black and white and one in colour, both from 1968, or a little later, that made me miss them.

They were taken at her home, presumably, and showed her standing (one) and sitting (the other) in front of her stereo. You could see her machinery, her books in the background, and even some of her records. Some of them were easily and clearly distinguishable:

1. Antonio Carlos Jobim's album "The Composer of Desafinado, Plays", probably the British edition on Verve, from 1965.

2. Otis Redding's album "The Immortal" on Atlantic in 1968, and...

3. Mikis Theodorakis and Odysseus Elytis' "Axion Esti", which was then only released in Greece, in 1964!

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/a_lifo_diana_rigg_1.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/release/12057569-Mikis-Theodorakis-Odysseas-Elytis-Axion-Esti-

i guess that obvious one can't not be this but the cover is very different

although discogs says Sweden

seems like it must be this version

Watching Risky Business… no record sightings (yet), but there’s a great moment early on when his dad detects “a preponderance of bass, perhaps?”; and scolds Cruise, “I told you, this isn’t a toy” as he adjusts the sliders back to his liking:

https://i.imgur.io/oPRodEs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

This movie’s boring, though… weirdly, it’s like “fake John Hughes” (right down to the Highland Park, IL filming location), but it predates all those Hughes teenager flicks.

All of Cruise’s performance mannerisms were fully intact at this early stage, it’s really something.

Man i loved playing with the equalizer, though my Dad wasn’t a jerk about it

Risky Business ended up having some pretty good song selections (including Prince's "D.M.S.R.")... tho it's amusing hearing Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" used to soundtrack Cruise & De Mornay having chemistry-free sex on a commuter train.

I remember when the Risky Business soundtrack was the only way to get “D.M.S.R.” on CD.

following Diana Rigg, 1973...Francoise Hardy, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwv0uElWAAAcSCK?format=jpg&name=900x900

fantastic

for a sec I thought it was The Doors "Strange Days" behind her but nope

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/65/Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg/220px-Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg

The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.

"Bryter Layter" peeping out behind Carly, too. And I think that's her own album "La Question" to the right of the turntable.

to the right of five leaves left:

https://i.discogs.com/QqjRbhHpMvropMvmnDlVpMw4rnX8dnJ9leeY_tbNSac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTc2/MDYtMTM1NzIxNTMx/Ny0xNjE5LmpwZWc.jpeg

The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.

wasn't there some kind of plan for a hardy/drake collaboration at one point? pretty sure i read about it somewhere!

Yes, I think you're right.

I remember an Ian MacDonald piece about Nick D where he questions the obscurity thing - when he was at univeosrity in the early 70s, everyone had the albums, he reckoned.

Dolphin's Of Hollywood, circa 1948

https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/05fb2f8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103606_e1441670831d0144cd918d7eaa7c60d9_original.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fl5js4eRL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69e87dd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103605_5a7c53e60ad9be75fc07241f645ff3a5_original.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PWTBvePj3QI/maxresdefault.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/74273036/photo/an-interior-view-of-people-shopping-at-producer-john-dolphins-dolphins-of-hollywood-record.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=RMQhDGRedNlHQPaYtauB4TMBS79gXjVuIRktRAdRdMs=

You were right, these photos are incredibly good. Just reading a bit about the history of the shop - it was open 24 hours?!?!

I missed that, the place must have been really hopping back in the day!

It was the toast of the coast!

It had a radio station in the store! I think i remember hearing about this in an episode on Andrew Hickey's podcast.

what a life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolphin_(music_producer)

with Billie Holiday

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG/800px-John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG

(he's also the guy standing right under the big portrait of him on the wall in the pic before the Billie one)

https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.io/oPRodEs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Haha, same guy, right?

OMG, you’re right!

Now I need to watch Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home, in which he also placed the dad, to see if there’s a “disapproving stereo” scene…

The former location of an auto parts store near me is being dressed up for a production. Can we guess the year it is set?

https://i.imgur.com/zmzdNin_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

https://i.imgur.com/AVdARmU_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

late 1979

Is this anywhere near the filming sites for the alleged PTA Pynchon adaptation?

Huh, I don't know...

(Looks like that book is set in 1984, tho?)

Yeah, good point. Was just curious.

I'm curious too!

Would a 1979 record store have massive poster/murals like that? I don't recall anything that big. Also, those choices are very received wisdom. Blues Brothers, Eagles, The Knack.

Maybe this is remake of Record City!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z832IqZLXKs

a film that terrified a zoomer in my household more than Hereditary!

Vineland begins in 1984, but there are flashbacks galore - we're talking non-linear Pynchon time obv. So there could be scenes set in 1979, especially if this is a 'loose adaptation'.

xps That was my thought but the wikipedia page for Tower Records has a photo of their Sunset Strip location that looks just like this (though from a much later date).

Blurry pic from '78

Fake location def. has "cooler" murals (...not that I can identify most of the ones in that pic!)

Nice pics here as well: http://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-legendary-past-and-celluloid-future.html?m=1

For all these shows and movies that recreate Tower Records, maybe it would have been easier for them to just keep some open! Surprised at how much I even miss having a chain like that around.

Particularly now that the only national chain carrying a barely respectable amount of music is *Barnes & Noble*.

Fake location def. has "cooler" murals (...not that I can identify most of the ones in that pic!)

That blog post has a better scan of that '78 pic. There's a roof display for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack! Admittedly, that yellow Firebird >>> the albums in the window (Rainbow: You Can't Kill Rock'n'Roll; two guitar guys are England Dan & John Ford Coley; not sure About the others...fuel nozzle might be Robin Trower?).

Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.

Yeah all those cars parked out front are f'in fire-emoji

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2FlZTQ1NTktY2Y1NS00ZjVhLWE5ODEtZWE0ZTcyYmUyNDZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg

Still from the film FM (1978)

nice!

I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.

The album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.

That's really cool, I didn't know that! Sorry if this is one of those common knowledge things I should have known, but I missed that era and the chains I grew up with were all in malls and had just carboard cut-out things.

I figured hand-painting would be way too labor intensive for anyone to do that! Was it a chain thing? Or did the labels source then?

Someone on Pinterest has a post saying that the Peaches artwork was commissioned to a group from California. They also say, interestingly, that after six months of being displayed on the exterior of the building, the paintings would be displayed inside the store until they sold. That I did not remember.

Cool home movie footage from another point in '78. Starts @ 4:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNvv0KNTpk

LIVE GRAPE! SGT. PEPPER SOUNDTRACK!

Inside the store in 1971:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRnXhhRwtc

Interesting to see how many displays are simply records stacked up on their shopping boxes, warehouse-club style.

how it was supposed to be

I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.

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The album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.

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The main character in Xanadu (1980) was an album cover reproduction painter. And that's fictional, of course, but it feels like a pretty '70s thing to do.

It's not quite the same but the coffee table book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip discusses the folks who painted those huge billboards and what went into that (though most people who designed and painted them were never credited).

could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp

now I want to know when the profession died out, guessing it was the late-79 record industry recession/crash

The Tower Records podcast interviewed someone who was a store art director
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-58-tim-wessman-art-department-sf-nyc/id1624366888?i=1000622239312

A friend took an updated picture… looks like they added Barry and moved Bob:

https://i.imgur.com/aKh642e_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

see I was thinking that Slow Train Coming was a little early compared to the rest of these, that makes more sense

idk Damn The Torpedoes was released mid-October of 79, I know this because it was when I started buying records and listening to the radio and that shit was everywhere, with good reason

We drove by the location earlier; they’re actively filming there tonight.

My wife says someone was talking about it online, and teased that they couldn’t reveal the project, but “it involves a famous drug addict from the ‘80s, who’s no longer with us.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.

Screened it last night. It's really not good, just dumb as hell, and probably started dating horribly as soon as the director called "Cut!" on the first setup.

HOWEVER

Hats off to the production designers. From what I gather, they took an old grocery store up in north LA near Glendale and turned it into a near-clone of the Sunset Tower Records sales floor. If you've followed/posted in this thread, it's totally worth digging into just to savour all the album covers, posters, displays, signage etc.

One of the most interesting bits (which ties in to some discussion upthread) is this tall triptych poster from Island Records UK promoting Michael Nesmith's From A Radio Engine..., Bruce Cockburn's In The Falling Dark, and...Bryter Layter! Which I guess had been reissued?

yep Antilles did a 1977 US reissue of Bryter Layter, they did Five Leaves Left the year before, but did not reissue Pink Moon

So I was going through some old vacation pictures from my father-in-law which we had backed up here on our PC and by coincidence saw this one, taken somewhere in California in 2006:

https://i.postimg.cc/QtDPq8Qb/W4m1cz-NRx-pb5-Fed-O2vg-Q.jpg

I didn't crop this or anything, this is the picture, not really sure why it was taken, I'm guessing those are 3 album covers which we can just barely see the top of. I don't recognize any of them, but I tend to be pretty bad at these kind of things

I think the middle one is Beck, The Information

I'm trying to place the store. It might have been the one on Sunset?

Yeah, pretty sure it is. It's a Supreme store now.

https://wehotimes.com/long-lines-are-back-at-supreme-store-west-hollywood-for-fall-winter-2023-collection/

Springsteen on the left there, and yeah Beck. not sure about the one on the right.

Someone on Facebook (I dunno who) has now apparently "confirmed" that the Tower Records set is for a new Michael Jackson movie.

I was coming home on a train about 10 days ago, and saw someone had left a Supreme water bottle on a seat. I was the only one in the car, and thought of taking it, but decided not to. When I got home I googled it (didn't know anything about the brand) and saw that similar bottles retail for $90 or some such ridiculous amount.

finally had time to look at this tower records blog post and all the videos ... thanks for sharing these

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*NJbrhn13szTCe0m8I71aUw.jpeg

I can't identify a single one of these, but it must be from the LP era? guessing late 50s?

I think I see https://www.discogs.com/master/596736-Max-Steiner-Gone-With-The-Wind-Original-Soundtrack-Album

??

(which is 1967 fwiw)

One on the right side is Latin a la Lee! by Peggy Lee

thanks, that's from 1960 with a '62 repress so I think we're talking early 60s here

Not 100% sure, but one of the album covers might be 'Here We Go Again' (1959) by the Kingston Trio. It's one from the bottom of the column of six albums just to the left of the right-hand pillar in the picture.

^ Gotta be that. So I’d say the photo is from 1960.

Irving Caesar (third from left), songwriter and Grand Street Boy, at Colony Records in Manhattan for the publication of the Grand Street Boys’ song, 1960

higher res
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9116b0404d812e8aa6c170c59194ee95/tumblr_inline_op183nEREa1r0yq0k_1280.jpg

There’s a Jack Scott album upper right and the cast album to ‘Fiorello!’ on right side of the entrance, but rest are too indistinct even in the hi-res image.

Della Reese to right of the column at the bottom. Stumped on the others.

Bottom, left of the Fiorello poster

https://i.discogs.com/6N9zyCp-VU2jhmEb4DW9gHB1vcPdGTe1YQMVPSlGdsI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:594/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzODQ0/MDAtMTQ1NjExMDEx/OC01MTIyLmpwZWc.jpeg

Wow, good catch

top right: Rusty Warren - Songs for Sinners

The guy below Rusty Warren and Jack Scott sure looks like Henry Mancini, but I can't find a jacket that matches, either in LP sleeve or garb.

I was wondering if that was Neil Sedaka, but also can't find a match

Top right seems to be "Songs for Sinners" by Rusty Warren, not sure if this img will work:

https://i.discogs.com/-n9zXuJPWwQCUhJ-AxH1-LJ8IghU6pfI6yra8g79GDg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1MTY3/Njg4LTE2Njg0NzA1/ODgtMTg2MC5qcGVn.jpeg

(Also 1960, fwiw)

wow, nice work all!

Diagonally one up and one left from Fiorello! is the Original Soundtrack to "Can Can":

https://i.discogs.com/PM89fNjMXQeRc4XD8HMbQCe9cOOORcLY6HQLs5uubbg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3NjE3/NzQ1LTE2ODg4MzM3/NTItODQyMi5qcGVn.jpeg

(Sorry for the Rusty Warren duplicate Budo Jeru, I completely missed that post - hope I haven't missed someone naming Can Can also)

Second from top, to the right of the door

https://i.discogs.com/af1QUdbsL1ye5WyVP9Pw8x7xOqp4Un2ArMHC1W7Pb48/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2ODU1/NzItMTQ4ODY2MDEy/MS00NjYxLmpwZWc.jpeg

thank you, that one was driving me crazy

Les Baxter - Baxter's Best, bottom of inside the doorway

https://i.discogs.com/ojSM16CKSEP_OrV_RglBpa5FZfhOTgcsjYZK88NYeVM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:491/w:491/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0MzU3/NjYtMTM0MjEzNDcx/My02NDc3LmpwZWc.jpeg

Norrie Paramor's Orchestra - Amor, Amor! , top row 2nd LP

https://i.discogs.com/jgtw4tHipLl8sgcveyiXDRhGhkU4zAC_kL1VyOzsGh4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk3MzM5/NzYtMTU4NzAyMDIw/MC00Njg2LmpwZWc.jpeg

This Peggy Lee record is in the doorway window on the left, only about 2/3rds of the cover showing second from bottom

https://i.discogs.com/FsSeDy7O52-U0kz3hQRz5qgLCTpQWc7ldIMHbUgdUeA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:594/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNTQ2/MjI2LTE1NDU4MDI3/MzctNjY1Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

Wow, that Dakota Staton album cover is beautiful

Josefa clocked Latin à la Lee right off the bat

but great work on the dakota staton record, i know i had seen that one but it was driving me crazy

Ah shoot, I'd missed that - sorry Josefa. But yeah the Dakota Staton one was killing me. From that distance I thought it was some Blue Note or something.

same!

Here's another - Anna Maria Alberghetti in the middle of that group between the doorway and right column

https://i.discogs.com/ucOmpYuZ0MCWVG-5VHoq89Ob-Au8bxkHbzH_mu8joGo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ2NDUz/MDMtMTYwOTA4ODg2/OC0yMzg4LnBuZw.jpeg

two to the right from Cole Porter's Can Can is Yukiji Asoaka

https://i.discogs.com/zqLfPW8rO0Fsq3vJ3XWfzW8ut76j1LqW5_8bfE-670c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:447/w:441/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2MDQw/NjEtMTM5Nzc2Mjcw/NC01NjU0LmpwZWc.jpeg

*Asaoka

Ah shoot, I'd missed that - sorry Josefa. But yeah the Dakota Staton one was killing me. From that distance I thought it was some Blue Note or something.

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Charles Mingus's "East Coasting" is what immediately came to mind for me

I thought Dakota Staton might have been Sinatra or Bennett, lonely crooner leaning on a lamp post.

on the left door above Peggy Lee is the Little Mary Sunshine cast album

https://i.discogs.com/imEJO1ExkWCCgwegvq1CpieTD58sipgb4oR8suNj_tY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:351/w:355/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2ODgx/ODEtMTQ2MDQxMjky/Ni0zMTQ0LmpwZWc.jpeg

All of these covers are gorgeous.

damn y'all are good

One up from Yukiji, "On and Off Broadway" by Evalyn Tyner

https://i.discogs.com/rDqx5aNQCHfdKdmDcx-S_LAZdaOup-1C652YZt8cslw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxNzk3/ODEtMTQ1NzMyMDU0/NC01Nzc0LmpwZWc.jpeg

directly to the right of Fiorello is Tennessee Ernie Ford's Hymnal

https://i.discogs.com/rwVDwlo-5p2CjuM4QI35hfaJVgHzsitYe-w0NkmA4ec/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:606/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMzE0/MDYtMTQ1NjUzODgw/Ny01OTI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Nice one.

Don't think we've got this one yet: "In Person" by Chris Connor, other side of the column from Tennessee Ernie:

https://i.discogs.com/1aQ_5CaTmlortSqWCDData264aqganZ4Wu36ppdmyCU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2NzEw/NzctMTU1MjM0NTg2/MS02NTMwLmpwZWc.jpeg

there you go. if only we could get the cardigan man under chris connor and the mysterious building art above evalyn tyner -- then i could sleep tonight

It's so hard to imagine all these albums covers crisp, unblemished and in that gleaming storefront, rather than musty in a basement or interspersed with Dan Fogelberg, Grand Funk and Godspell at the Goodwill.

There’s a second Kingston Trio album, Sold Out, three albums above the other one.

Haha I had decided that was a cartoony OST / original cast recording from some show, I was looking for something that had virtually nothing in common with that Kingston Trio cover.

i love when this thread gets revived, it's like watching a special ops team from a heist movie go to work

Are we sure about Della Reese in the bottom right? The R in Reese sure looks like a K to me, and the second E might be an L--Kelly maybe?

all credit to Josefa but it's this one

https://i.discogs.com/AW3OCkUr3EXt3qUU0V3U70ryBKRgPbBlMCdK8IFhixw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMjQ4/NjYtMTY0NTY1MjM1/OS0yMDI0LnBuZw.jpeg

Wow, great finds everyone. Any idea why so many of these are Capitol LPs? I suppose it could be as simple as the label just paying for displays in the shop.

I wish I could know who was doing the art direction for Capitol LPs in the late 50s/early 60s...I've developed a real soft spot for some of them and while the styles are not as immediately identifiable as Blue Note or maybe Prestige...the covers across all genres from that time are pretty impressive and not just linked to one style.

now I'm searching for popular Capitol LPs from 1960, lol

some history of this era of the label from wiki:

In 1957, EMI's classical label Angel was merged into Capitol. Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and stereophonic sound. These included William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras (including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and albums of film music conducted by Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman.

In the realm of "Sweet Jazz" big-band music, Capitol also joined forces with the bandleader Guy Lombardo starting in the mid 1950s to issue a series of approximately thirty recordings until the late 1960s.[13]

The Capitol of the World series introduced in 1956 and active into the 1970s encompassed German Beer Drinking Songs, Honeymoon in Rome, Australian Aboriginals, and Kasongo! Modern Music of the Belgian Congo. Many were produced by Dave Dexter Jr. This series contained over 400 albums. It was also in this period that Capitol issued Christmas music recordings from various countries outside the United States.[14][15] In the 1960s Capitol established subsidiary labels including Tower Records. Capitol was the US distributor of the Beatles' Apple Records.

have we gotten the one to the left of Fiorello! yet?

I think the one might be "That Lonely Feeling" by Alvino Rey:

https://i.discogs.com/d54QjfcYlm3oL45RG2E5XbSbMy-3ac474eTnjJgjVT4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1MTA3/NzMtMTYxNDEzMjk1/OC02OTcwLmpwZWc.jpeg

What's a console guitar? What's a string choir?

... and above Little Miss Sunshine (visible through the door) is POW! by Billy May, not a record I'd like to run into on a dark night.

https://i.discogs.com/WZKxaSgsSUP8mBtCnGfT2mOux48AcrbVDqPi9jGfwAs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3NjU0/OTMtMTM3NDgwNzkz/My01MTU5LmpwZWc.jpeg

It looks like Frank Sinatra's No One Cares in the same row as Little Mary Sunshine, to the right

beastie boys 'paul's boutique' just to the right of norrie paramor

xp haha Nick quite so.

Josefa I'd never have got that one. Below it might be "Sands at the Sands" by Tommy Sands:

https://i.discogs.com/m3The-TLYRctMVRh_ivwprOHIo2_z-zCjPoe5bdojqI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3ODY5/OTktMTQ3Njc4MjIx/OS04NDI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Sinatra's son-in-law at that time

Take it over to Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name

Just inside the door - Polly Bergen's Four Seasons of Love

https://i.discogs.com/h-p4AFMjLiBXXVt0iPWCcz7q-5F5ns-fQJm0BX64468/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTIx/MDU1LTE2MjQ2MjMw/NzAtMzQxOC5qcGVn.jpeg

checking out Billy May lead me to this amazing sleeve.

fascinating stuff, this really was the era where arrangers were on top of the pile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_May

At Barnet's request, May closely studied the musical language of Barnet's idol, Duke Ellington. May soon developed a harmonic and sonic palette rich with Ellingtonian colors.

...his biggest hit as a composer was the children's song "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat", which he recorded with Mel Blanc in 1950.

how do you guys do this??? truly in awe. beat that, ChatGPT!

they're using albumcoverGPT

Amazing work and amazing cover art. Billy May is giving big Brian Dennehy vibes.

It's a shame Roy Kinnear never got to play Billy May in a dicey British movie.

what i ended up doing was toying around with the filters on Discogs. so for instance i went to the Capitol Records label page, clicked on "1,174,024 copies" to show everything in the marketplace, then filtered by [LP] and [1960] and at that point a lot of the records started showing up as i combed through

Here's the thing that Sleeve thought might be Gone With The Wind: "Out Love Story" by Gordon and Shiela Macrae.

https://i.discogs.com/Rzxcxe4Xn_mRpCfWJTOkGsC6zn4bjfod0oq0WEaobiQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYxMDcz/NjEtMTQxMTI0NTgy/NC05MjQ5LmpwZWc.jpeg

ahhhhh thank you!

on Capitol, of course

Above Dakota Staton:

https://i.discogs.com/2vNsg5UQmiFnI9GuHW1-xrr_OSac4059CeOvW8yB3sM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc5MTcx/NzMtMTQ1MTYxNzM0/My0xNTA0LmpwZWc.jpeg

Haunani – Moon Of The Southern Seas

Amazing.

hot dog!

Billy May has 500k monthly Spotify listeners! Probably mostly because of Christmas songs? While I surely ran across him in the bins, I must not have seen any of the records with his face on the cover, 'cuz it woulda stuck.

https://i.discogs.com/zGmbjACDaF45pbo0hohnMuwlXSa7Dj7vYMLacYadmIk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODc2/NjAtMTMxMjg4MTk1/NC5qcGVn.jpeg