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The cover serves 3 main purposes:

  • To advertise the contents of the music product.
  • To convey the artistic aspirations of the original artists (see Cover art and Alex Steinweiss).
  • In reproductions of the artwork, to serve as a primary image in the promotional efforts surrounding the product, as an identifiable image associated with it.

Also, in the case of all types of records, it also served as part of the protective sleeve.

Early History

Around 1910, 78 rpm records replaced phonograph cylinder as the medium for recorded sound. The 78 rpm records were issued in both 10" and 12" diameter sizes and were usually sold separately, in brown paper or cardboard sleeves that were sometimes plain and sometimes printed to show the producer or the retailer's name. Generally the sleeves had a circular cutout allowing the record label to be seen. Records could be laid on a shelf horizontially or stood upright on an edge, but because of their fragility, many broke in storage.

German record company Odeon pioneered the "album" in 1909 when it released the "Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky on 4 double-sided discs in a specially-designed package. #1 (It is not indicated what the specially designed package was.) The practice of issuing albums does not seem to have been taken up by other record companies for many years.

Beginning in the 1920s, bound collections of empty sleeves with a plain cardboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as "record albums" that customers could use to store their records (the name "record album" was printed on some covers). These empty albums were sold in both 10" and 12" sizes. The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them.

Starting in the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78 rpm records by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums. These albums could include either a collection of popular songs, on several 78 rpm records, related either by performer or style, or extended length classical music, also on several 78 rpm records, including complete symphonies.

In 1938, Columbia records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director. He is credited with inventing the concept of album covers and cover art, replacing plain covers used before. (See Alex Steinweiss for more information and links.) After his initial efforts at Columbia, other record companies followed his lead. By the late 1940s, record albums for all the major companies featured their own colorful paper covers in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes. Some featured reproductions of classic art while others utilized original designs.

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Kris Allen's 'Heartless': The Story Behind The Cover

MTV Music TelevisionOn Tuesday night's "American Idol," Kris Allen made a bold move covering Kanye West's "Heartless," which just came out in November.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611249/20090513/west_kanye...

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It's gonna be all White

Herald SunMANY bands have had a shot at Beatles covers, but four of Australia's most popular singers are about to cover an entire album.http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25469988-2862...

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Detroit NewsLike the pile of prescription pills that forms his likeness on his new album cover, Eminem's new album, "Relapse," has spilled out across the Web. After a series of individual songs was posted on hip-hop blogs on Thursday, the full-length album -- or ... http://www.detnews.com/article/20090508/ENT04/905080434/1424...

About time for Manics' Richey album

MSN UK NewsJames explained: "Two or three times a year, I'd get them out and look at them, and every time it was always the same ... Already supermarkets won't accept the album cover, which I am really startled at," Nicky said. http://news.uk.msn.com/entertainment/article.aspx?cp-documen...

Adam Lambert's 'One': The Story Behind The Cover

MTVBlige recorded a gospel cover of the tune for her 2005 The Breakthrough album, and she performed it with Bono and the group at the 2006 Grammy Awards. That same year, it was used in ads for the World Cup soccer tournament. Among the other acts that ... http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611251/20090513/u2.jhtml

'This album could seriously damage us'

Guardian UnlimitedAlready, supermarkets won't accept the album cover, which I am really startled at. You can have the Pussycat Dolls poledancing, but you can't ... " His voice trails off again. "So already I'm thinking, 'Oh fucking hell, are we putting them off alreadyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/08/manic-street-pre...

Latest Akron/Family album unexpected mix of indie rock, psychedelia

ShorthornSeldom has an album cover been such a declaration of a band’s intentions as with Akron/Family’s latest, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free . A ragged, homemade American flag stands starkly against a black background with a tie-dyed burst of white and ... http://www.theshorthorn.com/content/view/17027/243/

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Seventies' Greatest Album Covers

54 of the Seventies' Greatest Album Covers ... he forced retirement of the vinyl LP in the mid-Eighties brought an end to a dynamic era in rock art in which the marketing needs of ... http://www.superseventies.com/greatestalbumcovers.html

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Album Cover Art Downloader

Album Cover Art Downloader. Here's a program that will semi-automatically download album cover images for your music collection. All you have to do is point it at the root of your ... http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/

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Album cover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_cover

Cover version - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded, commercially released song.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_album

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Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released in 1976, and was the first album of the band to attract attention outside Europe ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

Abbey Road (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history. Paul McCartney is bare-footed.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_%28album%29

Category:Album covers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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sulfuricfire@rocketmail.comAlbum Cover?sulfuricfire@rocketmail.comReally it depends on your genre and what kind of art your looking for I've done a couple before And it generally helps if the artist listens to the album, gets a feel for itSassmoWhat super famous Country music album cover features a fancy belt buckle with the artist's name on it?SassmoMusic man/Black on Black by Waylon Jennings. http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/jennings_waylon/730481/album.jhtml OR Nashville Rebel (Box Set) Waylon Jennings http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/jenning...clicker99@ymail.comHow do I get an album cover onto my ipod touch after I have songs downloaded?clicker99@ymail.comin itunes, go to the advanced tab and click get album artwork, when it is done downloading, sync the ipod with the library so it adds the pictures. No songs are deleted unless you removed them from yo...WaiHow do I get the album cover art downloaded from iTunes to appear on the .mp3 files itself?WaiWhen iTunes downloads album covers, or you purchase a song from the store with a cover, the image is implanted in the ID3 tag, which is the song information like title, author, genre, etc. When you mo...Neil DWhat was the copyright lawsuit over a rapper's album cover based on the arrangement of his jewelry?Neil DToo my knowledge you cannot copyright arrangement of jewelry on your body, a suit could of been filed... but it would of been more frivilous garbage.
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