The second box set in the series of NBC audition packets I have in my collection, contains a full episode of the news show Voices and Events.The show was highly innovative for its time because it integrated tape recordings of actual audio clips—the literal “voices […]
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“Night Beat”: the first Warhol record cover pictured in a magazine
Already in 1949, the first year Andy Warhol worked a s a commercial illustrator in New York, he received commissions for record cover art. He did spot drawings for at least two LP’s on the Columbia label (Carlos Chávez, A Program of Mexican Music and […]
Voices and Events: toast to a newly discovered Warhol cover
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine to write a post like this: I was able to add an original Night Beat box to my Warhol cover collection, and on top of that also the fabulous Voices and Events box, of which no one knew […]
The Nation’s Nightmare Shooter Boy
Less rare than the Night Beat ep box, yet still pretty rare is this other 1950’s spoken word album with radio broadcasts and Warhol cover design: The Nation’s Nightmare. According to the archives of the American Institute of Graphic Arts only 2.936 copies were pressed. The […]
The voice of Tennessee Williams
The speciality of record label Caedmon was literature and spoken word, preferably read by the author in person. Andy Warhol delivered a beautiful illustration for the cover of ‘Tennessee Williams reading from The Glass Menagerie, The Yellow Bird and Five poems’. Warhol’s cover art is used only from […]
Andy Earhole 