 "Vixens
of Vinyl"
by Benjamin Darling
Chronicle Books, 2001
Vixens of Vinyl:
The Alluring Ladies of Vintage Album Covers is what you call a
perfect bachelor pad book. It touches on two of our favorite subjects...hi-fi
records and beautiful women. One of the great joys of lounge music collecting
is finding a great album with a great album cover...and by great we mean
one with a sultry woman draped over a velvet couch or learning on a bar
in a cocktail lounge. Artists like Jackie Gleason,
Martin
Denny, and Herb Alpert
knew that having a beautiful woman on the record could do wonder for sales.
Gleason had his glamour, forlorn beauties.
Denny
had the versatile
Sandy Warner who changed her look with
each cover. And who could forget the cover to Alpert's Whipped
Cream and Other Delights? Vixens of Vinyl includes
these famous covers as well as dozens of others, all from the golden age
of the hi-fi record. The author is very particular about just who qualifies
as a vixen, “This baddest of the bad girls looks out at us in the eye,
straight at us. Invitingly, engagingly, she looks out from the album cover,
commanding us with her come hither stare. Music appeals to our passions;
vixens do as well.”
What Vixens of
Vinyl lacks in text, it more than makes up for in page after page
in gorgeous album art. It has sections dedicated to the cosmopolitan vixen,
the exotic vixen, the mambo vixen, the famous vixen, the international
vixen, and a few others thrown in for good measure. Any swinger worth his
salt needs to own at least a handful of these albums, regardless if you
like the music. (But if you like the music, even better!) Below are a few
examples of album covers featured in Vixens of Vinyl.
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