So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Niko]

7 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Interesting. The only woman on a Patton cover that I seem to see as white is on "Got a Good Thing Goin'" and I could be convinced that was not a white woman as well if my arm were twisted and I saw stars. . . . 

"That Certain Feeling". . . I would see no reason to change that cover. That model reminds me of my childhood neighbor and often babysitter Iona Harris, who I thought was one of the most beautiful gals in the world at the time, and she was not a "white woman."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post

The passage is in this thesis here, just search for "white woman"

https://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html?m=1

It says clearly that Patton was offended by the cover of That Certain Feeling...(It's even implied that the cover made him so bitter he left the music scene for a while)

 

[jazzbo]

3 hours ago, Niko said:

The passage is in this thesis here, just search for "white woman"

https://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html?m=1

It says clearly that Patton was offended by the cover of That Certain Feeling...(It's even implied that the cover made him so bitter he left the music scene for a while)

 

Okay, thanks. That's sad. That does not look like a white woman to me. As I say looks eerily like my African American young neighbor in Philadelphia '57 to '66.

Edited 3 hours ago by jazzbo

[Niko]

52 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Okay, thanks. That's sad. That does not look like a white woman to me. As I say looks eerily like my African American young neighbor in Philadelphia '57 to '66.

I've been wondering whether the thesis is a bit inaccurate here and Patton would have been offended by any woman on his album cover regardless of color... That would be more consistent with what I know about islam

[jazzbo]

That's a point to ponder.

[Peter Friedman]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Groove Holmes had no problem having women on his covers.