THE SWAN - Kaper (on MGM Records) THE EGYPTIAN - Newman/Herrmann (orig. release on Decca Records) SHALAKO - Farnon (on Philips) OMAR KHAYYAM - Young (with THE MOUNTAIN-Amfitheatrof) (on Decca Records) GONE WITH THE WIND - Steiner (MGM Records - 1961, first release of Orig. Soundtrack) GONE WITH THE WIND - Steiner (WB Records - Muir Mathieson 1961 recording) BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE - Duning (Colpix Records) EL CID - Rozsa (Orig. MGM Records release) BEN-HUR - Rozsa (MGM Records) KING OF KINGS - Rozsa (MGM Records) MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Kaper (MGM Records) A FLEA IN HER EAR - Kaper (20th-Fox Records) RAINTREE COUNTY - Green (RCA Victor)
THE SWAN - Kaper (on MGM Records) THE EGYPTIAN - Newman/Herrmann (orig. release on Decca Records) SHALAKO - Farnon (on Philips) OMAR KHAYYAM - Young (with THE MOUNTAIN-Amfitheatrof) (on Decca Records) GONE WITH THE WIND - Steiner (MGM Records - 1961, first release of Orig. Soundtrack) GONE WITH THE WIND - Steiner (WB Records - Muir Mathieson 1961 recording) BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE - Duning (Colpix Records) EL CID - Rozsa (Orig. MGM Records release) BEN-HUR - Rozsa (MGM Records) KING OF KINGS - Rozsa (MGM Records) MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Kaper (MGM Records) A FLEA IN HER EAR - Kaper (20th-Fox Records) RAINTREE COUNTY - Green (RCA Victor)
You can strike A FLEA IN HER EAR from this list. I had misremembered it---it contains some real color photos in addition to the artwork. However, you can add the following:
SEARCH FOR PARADISE - Dimitri Tiomkin (RCA Victor) THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL - Elmer Bernstein (UA Records) KRAKATOA - EAST OF JAVA - Frank DeVol and Mack David (ABC Records) THE BUCCANEER - Elmer Bernstein (Columbia Records) THE VIKINGS - Mario Nascimbene (UA Records) THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - Andre Previn (MGM Records) MASTER OF THE WORLD - Les Baxter (VeeJay?? LP) ATHENA - Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane (Mercury 10" LP) RETURN TO PARADISE - Dimitri Tiomkin (Decca 10" LP) ROSE MARIE - Rudolph Friml, Herbert Stothart, etc. (MGM 10" LP) BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON - Gordon MacRae alternate version (Capitol 10" LP)
Saul Bass Covers, including THE CARDINAL ANATOMY OF A MURDER BONJOUR TRISTESSE EXODUS THE BIG COUNTRY
Also add: GENGHIS KHAN MARCO POLO (both in the Giant Letters "Ben-Hur/King of Kings/El Cid" style.....)
Manderley, I agree with most of your choices. I would also add the gatefold HOW THE WEST WAS WON, for all those wonderful Reynold Brown paintings (he did six panels in all).
Also THE GREAT ESCAPE and THE ALAMO (also by Brown). I'm glad you included Brown's cover art for THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.
Unfortunately I can't find better resolutions on the net.
I had never seen this particular cover until FSM's Rozsa Treasury appeared. If anyone on the Board comes across a superior resolution of it, please post it here.
Some good ones have been mentioned, but my three favorite "painted art covers" (suitable for framing) have been:
ONE-EYED JACKS (Liberty) THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Colpix) RAINTREE COUNTY (2-LP Mono; not the 1-LP with the "Living Stereo" banner across the top) (Just so beautiful - the beauty of the glossy 2-LP cover gets lost on a CD-size reduction) (You can't believe the ST collector frenzy that exploded in the early 1970s when copies of this very rare 2-LP set showed up in New York City in the "69-Cent Shops"!!!)
Thread revival, calling those with LP's or otherwise vinyl cover format found (in their vast collections) an appealing specimen, in the last say 6 months?
The only one I have :
Morricone has seen a number of his giallo covers recently,