the BACK cover art

[captainjames]

I loved the flip side of "Talk Of The Town", although none of them probably were from Talk of the Town. The "Love Child" album maybe because it has always been a mystery to me.

[lucky2012]

I loved the flip side of "Talk Of The Town", although none of them probably were from Talk of the Town. The "Love Child" album maybe because it has always been a mystery to me.

Yes, about Love Child! Three girlfriends there for each other on a fire escape. Why blue? I always liked this album's front & back covers.

Re: Talk of the Town. I miss my vinyl albums, so I'll take your words about the back cover. I loved the front cover.

[lockhartgary]

Yes, about Love Child! Three girlfriends there for each other on a fire escape. Why blue? I always liked this album's front & back covers.

Re: Talk of the Town. I miss my vinyl albums, so I'll take your words about the back cover. I loved the front cover.

Discogs site is my goto for album cover art. I love that they show front, back and vinyl scans.

[lucky2012]

Discogs site is my goto for album cover art. I love that they show front, back and vinyl scans.

Thank you, lockhartgary Not taking care of my albums and their album covers is one of my biggest regrets.

[sup_fan]

I loved the flip side of "Talk Of The Town", although none of them probably were from Talk of the Town. The "Love Child" album maybe because it has always been a mystery to me.

I liked TOTT too but i thought the image quality of the pictures was poor. they were pretty grainy if i remember. I think i have both the US and UK releases and the images are different on each.

[lucky2012]

not sure if we've ever really delved specifically into this topic. of course lots of dialog on FRONT cover art. but what about the flip side? and we can include the inner parts of gatefold albums too

which is the best? frankly a lot of them seem to be throwaway since they just mostly list the tracks and all. but some were definitely better than others. and some releases and multiple, different back covers!

best back:
Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
Jimmy Webb! hard to believe the front was so inane but the back was fascinating
New Ways - they could have simply stocked the lp backwards in the racks and probably sold more!
More Hits - again, the collage of photos makes for a fun lp to look at
DR 76 and Baby it's me - every image from each of these photo shoots is amazing and classy

worst back:
dynamite
GH 3
Reflections - one puny closeup shot of diana's head
A go go - the shaking title art is pretty lame
LTISH and Ross 78 - again, hate repeating the front art

wasted space - this is my list for those with useless gatefolds
NW and Mag 7 - why the hell bother with gatefolds?!??!
GH - ok this might cause some controversy. lol but i feel they could have done more with the inside of the GH set. the liner notes are fine enough but enough already with the sketching. the cover and the posters are fine but let's get some real pics of these fabulous ladies!

Best back covers: More Hits & Love Child. DR 76 & The Boss. NW & Touch [loved Elton John's liner notes].

You're right about GH 1&2 inside cover. Carol Channing liner notes?! Why not Berry Gordy, HDH, Smokey, even Ed Sullivan?

NW & Mag7 gatefolds were flimsy & useless. I was glad Motown didn't use them on DR's albums.

[sup_fan]

Best back covers: More Hits & Love Child. DR 76 & The Boss. NW & Touch [loved Elton John's liner notes].

You're right about GH 1&2 inside cover. Carol Channing liner notes?! Why not Berry Gordy, HDH, Smokey, even Ed Sullivan?

NW & Mag7 gatefolds were flimsy & useless. I was glad Motown didn't use them on DR's albums.

i believe Carol Channing was to write the liner notes for the Broadway To Hollywood lp, which would have included The Happening, along with a bunch of the tracks we got on the TAPFU hip o select cd.

apparently it was decided to skip that album and instead do R&H - completely agree because the material is much stronger on R&H. B2H was good but mostly used the As. it's nice enough but just another random collection of MOR songs. R&H was a more complete concept IMO.

so once B2H was canned, they had to do something with The Happening. it was a #1 and had to go on SOME album. they had canned the previous Supremes Gold greatest hits album from the prior year. so now i guess they decided to do a double GH album.

i don't have any idea if the painting style from the GH cover or the pencil drawings of the girls on the inside would have been used on the B2H album. i don't know if it ever got that far to have a cover mockup.