unique covers for "non-US" Blue Note albums/singles?

[Rooster_Ties]

Just stumbled on this, which I'd never seen before (source) which gets me wondering...

Were there were other covers unique to non-US foreign territories??

[Stereojack]

I once sold a Horace Silver single from France with a unique cover photo. The record was a standard US Blue Note pressing, the cover was made in France.

[Rooster_Ties]

Some googling turned this up, a French single (source).

Don't know if it's unique to that market though, but here 'tis anyway...

[Rooster_Ties]

Here's a freaky looking alternate 70's(?) cover for "Somethin' Else", from France. (source).

[Rooster_Ties]

Thanks to Google, another French cover. Who the heck are these people pictured on the cover?? (source)

Edited May 20, 2011 by Rooster_Ties

[Rooster_Ties]

Don't know if it's unique, but this is French too (source)...

[Rooster_Ties]

And another (source)...

[Rooster_Ties]

Both Switzerland supposedly (source1, source2)...

Edited May 20, 2011 by Rooster_Ties

[Jim R]

None of your images shows up for me. (Mac, Google Chrome).

Also, this topic has nothing to do with discography...

[brownie]

Thanks to Google, another French cover. Who the heck are these people pictured on the cover?? (source)

They are French jazz critics who took part in radio shows on the French ORTF (they pose outside one of the entrances to the Maison de la Radio).

From left: Sim Copans, André Francis, ?, Jean-Louis Ginibre, ?, Philippe Koechlin.

Man in the single ID shot is Lucien Malson.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i dunno if i like these. its like: here, here is are photos, now you go and make some french cover for your record kinda like we do.

they knew better than let them cut the records!!! unlike prestiges over there and such they are STOCK USA VANGELDER STAMPED 45s w/ a little import sticker on them. yeyeea!

Edited May 20, 2011 by chewy

[Big Beat Steve]

You don't get it, Chewy. you don't get it one bit. If you had seen lots more French record covers (not only jazz) from that period (late 50s and early 60s) you'd have noticed that this combination of picture, typeface, subtitling etc. is typical of a HUGE lot of the French output of that period. Signs of the times. Just like BN or Prestige covers released in other countires were in their own right too. For the buyer of that time, though, the original AMERICAN "BN style" was of pretty little concern, I think. And if these were "variations on a (original Blue note photos) theme" then it suited the marketing purpose fine, so that's that.

Besides, it is not a BN phenomenon either. French Atlantic pressings (or licensed releases, such as on the Versailles label), for example, sometimes - but not always - had even more radically divergent cover artwork. It's just that people seem to be drooling about BN all the time, overlooking the "rest" and not getting the wider picture of the record scene (and the marketing strategies at work) AT LARGE. Oh yes, and they DID do their own pressings for French Atlantics, for example.

Edited May 20, 2011 by Big Beat Steve