(vanity) Two more irresistable entries for "Worst Album Art Ever"

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[martin_fierro]

Dan Betzer and Louie - "Tell The Bible Classics Volume 3"

[rzeznikj at stout]

First I've heard of him...8^)

[Spruce]

Hahahahahaha....

Tell me that is not real. Please!


Hahahahahaaa....

[Clemenza]

How can it be wrong, if it feels SO right?

[rzeznikj at stout]

(digging around in attic) Or how could we forget these ones...8^)

[bootless]

Hey! Pet Sounds was a great album.

You are lucky you missed the disco era. I didn't. I worked in radio during that time, and saw ev-er-y single album.

How come there are no Ohio Players album covers yet?

[sully777]

A little 1970's history is in order:

If you wanted to listen to music AM radio was king. They played top 40 relentlessly. I kid you not, you could hear Led Zeppelin followed by The Carpenters followed by The Who followed by Hot Chocolate followed by The Osmond Brothers followed by CW McCall's Convoy...I can still recall Christmas break hearing Band On The Run (Paul McCartney) playing at least every hour right after Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce) on WABC Radio. WNBC was more risque with Imus In The Morning. That was NY City radio. And it was hell!

Now, my older sisters were rebels so they tuned into FM. Now, FM was the abode of black R&B, college stations playing punk/new wave, musak, and AOR Rock which meant you would hear Pat St. John mellow out to the entire album of Abbey Road while smokin a few doobies. Yeah, I'm talking albums that skipped relentlessly. So if Pat St john or Tony Pig were at the john while Side Two skipped for five minutes --so be it! Damn them all to hell, I still can hear "Carry That Weight" skipping relentlessly at the guitar medley...over and over and over and over. What's a little boy to do: Go downstairs and watch Space 1999?

Enter disco. Disco took over all of AM until the only airplay rock had was FM. Everything became disco. Disco nights, Boogie Nights, Boogie Ooggie Ooggie, Boogie Machine, Disco Duck, and Leo "I'm in Dante's Inferno" Sayers!!!

You see, my friend, there were very little options. We had to listen. And down south in the Bible Belt they heard only the Country/Western. And it wasn't the kind you heard at the honky tonk, it was what the big whigs wanted you to hear. And in some places C&W was the devil's music, which left you only Bluegrass Gospel and regular gospel.

The 1970's were HELLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! At least for me.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Haven't gotten around to it...

Pet sounds is the only Beach Boys album I haven't cared for--not to mention its cover art is a little odd-looking IMO...8^)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

One night in New Orleans, as my friend and I were driving around town, we heard Macho Man on three stations at the same time. I cried...

[sully777]

Ohio Players: FIRE...yawzah yawzah. which became

[sully777]

Cuz you light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You you light up my dreams
and fill my nights
with song
it can't be wrong when it feels so right
you
light
up
myyyyyyyyyyyy
liiiiiiiiiife

(puke)

[sully777]

Ethel Merman did a punk album too.

[InvisibleChurch]

why is that man on the phone?

[rzeznikj at stout]

...happens here too.

But is it followed by YMCA and Fire Island?

[bootless]

Great summary! I grew up in the NY Tri-State area, and was a WNBC listener at home when I was younger in my top 40 days. WABC at for the beach, because they reminded you to turn over every 20 minutes.

I did enjoy WPLJ for the album rock - there were some good album stations those days. There was also a terrific jazz station in NY, call letters temporarily forgotte, but I was very unhappy when they changed formats in the late 70s.

To this day, there are some songs I can't tolerate listening to because of the sheer number of times they've been hammered into my brain.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Seriously?

Ethel + punk -- for some reason, just sounds really weird...8^)

[bootless]

:-) Nice tagline.

[bootless]

Oh! I just want to take some pruning shears to the middle guy on that cover!

[rzeznikj at stout]

Thanks!!

I try to come up with something clever...8^)

[sully777]

Macho Man was not as bad as Muskrat Love and Elton John/Neil Sadaka Bad Love. I was like Mel Gibson at the beginning of Lethal Weapon contemplating suicide

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Probably something stupid like "The Rubber Band Man" or "Shake your groove thing" or "shake your boody"

But I survived both "The Copacabana" and "Cotton-eyed Joe" and then it was the 80s.