Jazz flautist Herbie Mann’s 1971 album Push Push is widely considered one of the worst examples of album cover art ever, noted online and in books on the medium. (In fact, The Art of the LP, by Morgan and Wardle, devotes a lengthy paragraph to the cover which starts out with a response to the…
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Laura Nyro’s “Christmas and the Beads of Sweat”
For somebody who used to wear Christmas ornaments as earrings, it’s surprising that Laura Nyro never released a Christmas album. Oh, she did release an album with ‘Christmas’ in the title, of course. But, you have to wonder how Columbia Records and the record buying public reacted back in 1970 when Nyro presented them with…
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