They've been away for a whole year - but Bad Record Covers are back, with a vengeance!

Let's start with Songs for Swinging Necrophiliacs:

I wonder if O.J.'s legal team is still available? 

Naughty! Johnny Cash, Robert Plant - and the great Don Covay/Mick Jagger controversy

Listen to "Crescent City Blues" by Gordon Jenkins, which was released in 1953. The song starts 35 seconds in. It will remind you strongly of a far more famous recording released two years later:

Recognise it? Well, of course, it's...

Yet more awesomely strange LP covers - because everyone needs a hobby

Bad Record Covers Pt 4 - courtesy of the world's greatest Twitter feed

I'm sure you can get a cream for it in Boots 

The strangely selective racism of 1950s American LP covers: Little Richard made the cut, but James Brown didn't!

I was thoroughly enjoying a review in The Spectator by Roger Lewis - one of our great comic writers - when I came across this statement:

At home and in America, Little Richard and Ray Charles never had their faces prominently shown on album covers.

After reading on for a bit I suddenly thought, “Hang on! That can’t be right!” So I had a look online and discovered that (with one semi-exception) these two geniuses of popular 20th Century music had their faces prominently displayed on the covers of each of their first three American LPs, all released in the 1950s. Let's start with Brother Ray:

And those wonderfully terrible old album covers just keep on coming...

Bad luck!