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Just a thought about the Sam Cooke album cover. I didn't live through the era but I've seen enough album covers from the 60s in thrift shops to know that those line art/illustration covers were very much in vouge with MOR artists. When I first saw the Supremes Sam Cooke cover, my immediate thought was that Motown wanted the parents to look at that album and think Andy Williams, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole...THE SUPREMES! Look kids! Your old mom and dad bought some of your music! I thought the cover was just fine. Of course, stuff could always be done better, but as I learned from an interview with Bernard Yeszin, he and the others in Motown's art department were still learning and basically learning on the job in those earlier years.
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