A high percentage of early LPs featured pop singers. We've neglected them here, so let's start to make amends with this album from a fine vocalist, Georgia Gibbs.
I wish there were a way to make amends to Her Nibs (as she was called) for this cover. Yes, her skin is really the color of a rotting lime on the original artwork. Yes, there are cobwebs attached to her head. And yes, there are rolls of flab on her neck. All of which signifies that the cover was designed by my very own "discovery," Fred Steffen!
We first encountered Fred in the early days of this blog. He did the outrageous art for a Steve Gibson LP featured way down below. I said then that I didn't know anything about the artist. Since then I've found references to him as being a Chicago resident (Mercury was headquartered there) who designed book illustrations and a couple of pieces of art for Rogue, a men's magazine. I surely hope the latter were more alluring than his work for Georgia Gibbs.
Gibbs deserved better. A talented singer with a gutsy approach, her biggest hits were R&B covers like Dance with Me Henry. This is a enjoyable record in good sound with nice backing by an anonymous group.
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