Andy Warhol designed album covers

[mikeweil]

couw's posting of a rare Prestige 16 2/3 rpm record cover designed by Andy Warhol was the inspiration for this thread: let's compile a gallery of all covers Andy Warhol designed for Blue Note, Prestige, any other labels ... I'm sure it will be nice to look at.

I'll start with the cover couw found - thanks for posting this rare bird, I like it, but these horns somehow look (ancient) Greek to me, not like trombones, he must have been suffering a heavy Picasso influence at the time!

Edited September 28, 2003 by mikeweil

[Jim R]

[Jim R]

This one isn't coming up for me. Here's the source: Warhol page

Edited September 28, 2003 by Jim R

[Jim R]

There's one other cover which I have in a book, but can't locate an image on the web. Artie Shaw - BOTH FEET IN THE GROOVE (RCA LPM-1201), from 1956...

[mikeweil]

And this is the cover designed by some T. Tanaka & F. Fujiyama for the first release of this Grant Green session in Japan, highly derivative of Warhol's covers:

Edited September 28, 2003 by mikeweil

[BruceH]

Too bad Warhol didn't stick to album covers.

[JSngry]

No banana?

[White Lightning]

ok...

[ajf67]

Here's a page with some Warhol covers.

As my avatar would suggest, I'm a Warhol fan.

[Jim R]

Here's a page with some Warhol covers.

Uh... see above.

[Joe]

"1958: ANDY WARHOL'S MOTHER WINS A GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARD.

Warhol's mother often did the lettering for his designs. Her lettering on the cover of a Louis Hardin album, The Story of Moondog, won an award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts as "Andy Warhol's mother". The writing had been rearranged graphically by Warhol for the cover. (AWM58)"

(http://www.warholstars.org/chron/192862.html)

This cover is reproduced in the booklet to the OJC CD MORE MOONDOG / THE STORY OF MOONDOG...

Edited September 14, 2004 by Joe

[EAshley]

Whoa, I had no idea that Andy Warhol designed album covers! The only connection I thought he had to music was the Velvet Underground. I mean, sure, he basically started them, so it's not a small connection or anything, but I didn't know he did this too. If you guys are interested, there's some interesting info about his involvement with the music scene at that time in this Andy Warhol biography. Warhol is really just unlimited! I'm a huge fan of all his work, including those cool covers.

[Teasing the Korean]

In another thread, I mentioned that he did the inside booklet to the Munch/BSO album of Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe" on RCA Red Seal. This is the earlier mono album from the mid 50s.

[mjzee]

[Jim R]

Looks like most of the old image links above have died, so...

Edited August 21, 2009 by Jim R

[JSngry]

[Joe]

[JSngry]

There's a book about Warhol Album covers what have just recently come out. I think it has pictures.

[zzaj]

There's a book about Warhol Album covers what have just recently come out. I think it has pictures.

A book about Warhol album covers that has pictures? Unbelievable...

Edited September 12, 2009 by zzaj

[Chuck Nessa]

Andy's mom and Reid Miles was the art director.

Edited September 12, 2009 by Chuck Nessa

[Bright Moments]

There's a book about Warhol Album covers what have just recently come out. I think it has pictures.

A book about Warhol album covers that has pictures? Unbelievable...

hey! zzaj is jazz backwards!!!

[JSngry]

So, is Wynton posting here now?

[Free For All]

So, is Wynton posting here now?

Actually I think his screen name is Nedlob Yddub.

[JSngry]

[Free For All]

Eden Ahbez. And that's not even backwards!