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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Hanging on the Telephone with Andy Warhol in Krakow
Temperatures rose to a scorching 39°C in the beautiful city of Krakow in Poland, the day of the vernissage of the exhibition Andy Warhol: Od linii do legendy (Andy Warhol, From Line to Legend). I have given in loan a complete collection of Warhol record […]
“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 […]
Clap Hands, Here Comes Archie! Two variations on Warhol’s “Al Escobar” cover drawing
Art critic and Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik kindly wrote about my discovery of the hitherto unknown Warhol cover art for the album Al Escobar (Cadence Records, CLP-3014, 1958) on his website Warholiana.com. “To prove it’s by Warhol (he was working in a shared style), Minnebach […]
AL ESCOBAR – the mambo record no one knew has an Andy Warhol & Reid Miles cover
Thunderstruck. That word hardly describes what I felt when I first laid eyes on this mambo music album, a couple of weeks ago. Could it still be possible to discover a nearly 70 years old LP with undocumented Andy Warhol cover art? The answer is: […]
Latin Rhythms in Japan: first Warhol cover overseas?
A project I have been working on lately, is listing all Andy Warhol record covers from the 1950ies outside of North America (USA and Canada). I have always been curious about when exactly Warhol’s commercial illustration work reached other continents. Record covers were without a […]
‘Early Andy Warhol’ returns to art school
‘Early Andy Warhol’ is a four week exhibition held in PXL Mad (Media, Arts, Design), an art college in Hasselt, Belgium. Mid January I received a message from famed art curator Luk Lambrecht, if I was interested to participate in the expo, by lending record […]
The Debbie Harry portraits, or: The face Andy Warhol would have liked to have
In 1980 Andy Warhol created a series of now iconic portrait paintings of Blondie’s frontwoman Deborah Harry, herself of course a living icon on her own artistic merit. The portraits were not made as a commission for a record cover. Debbie Harry bought one for […]
Music and Flowers Matter: Johnny Griffin’s The Congregation on 45 rpm
There is an unwritten rule in the community of Warhol covers collectors: one can never ever have enough copies and versions of Johnny Griffin’s excellent Blue Note album The Congregation. So, here we go again! I seemed somehow to have missed the 2011 release of […]
Billie Holiday drawing part of ACT Art Collection
About a year ago I wrote a post about a jazz album by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit, on the German label ACT. The cover illustration was borrowed from a Warhol drawing I already mentioned a few years earlier, a cover design for an imaginary […]
Velvet Underground’s Scepter master tapes (and 100 bananas) at The Warhol
Last year November I received an email from Matt Gray, manager of archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, with truly fantastic news: “We recently identified the master tapes to The Velvet Underground & Nico album from a large donation from Warhol’s estate. Exciting to say […]
Kenny Burrell and Andy Warhol: Tone Poet & Design Master
The re-issue of Kenny Burrell’s Blue Note 1543 album in the audiophile series Tone Poet finally got its release. At first it was planned for June, but boy, it was worth the wait. What a brilliant release this is, both in regards of music production […]
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