Different albums with the same artwork

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just listening to these two Earl Hines and wig albums and thought it would be interesting to see if we could find a lot.

 

MG

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In 1979, Tchico Tchicaya, a well known Congolese singer, spent some time in Nigeria, and made five albums there for the Gabonese label Namaco ( a subsidiary of Decca West Africa) which were released in France on Sonafric - and only allowed himself to be photographed once.

The first four are Sonafric issues, the last is a Namaco issue (but the Sonafric version is the same)

 

 

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Here's the Sonafric version

 

 

And the 45 version on Namaco

 

 

Namaco was obviously staffed by professional cheapskates.

MG

[HutchFan]

 

and

 

 

 

Not the same photo, but clearly from the same "orange knit cap" photo session:

 

[EKE BBB]

A matter of budget? 😄

[HutchFan]

8 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

A matter of budget? 😄

Probably. 

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Not the same photo, but clearly from the same "orange knit cap" photo session:

 

There's a thread for covers from the same photo shoot, with those Hutcherson  sleeves in it

MG

[GA Russell]

I recall that there was a thread about this many years ago.  There were three examples that I remember.

Herb Alpert had two album covers from the same photo shoot.

The cover of Cecil Taylor's Love For Sale was from a photo shoot which was also used for an album by somebody else.

Ronnie Hawkins had two albums using the same photo.

Also, the Dave Clark Five had two album covers from the same photo shoot.

Here you go!  2008!

 

Edited September 28, 2021 by GA Russell

[Teasing the Korean]

There are many instances in which two shots from the same photo shoot ended up on two different albums:

Martin Denny Latin Village and Don Swan Latino

Martin Denny Hypnotique and Ethel Azama Exotic Dreams

Nelson Riddle Sea of Dreams and Les Baxter Jewels of the Sea

Edited September 28, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not so many using the SAME image though. I thought there'd be more than a couple of examples.

MG

[Rooster_Ties]

How about a couple Boris Blacher CD's I dearly love, both of them...

I realize they're not identical, but they are *so* close -- and if you look closely, the cigarette is visible in the second image (in his mouth).

Anyway, identical or not, this is the first example I thought of.

Edited September 28, 2021 by Rooster_Ties

[Teasing the Korean]

23 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Not so many using the SAME image though. I thought there'd be more than a couple of examples.

MG

Two albums on Alshire both used the same cover art:  Tijuana Beatles and Les Baxter's Que Mango.

Some CD packages used LP covers from completely unrelated albums.  For example, the cover of Ralph Font's Taboo was used for an Arthur Lyman Best of CD, and Spencer Hagen's Essence of Romance was used for an exotica CD comp.  Identical images.  

Edited September 29, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh PIX please TTK. I'm gasping to see these!

MG

13 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

How about a couple Boris Blacher CD's I dearly love, both of them...

I realize they're not identical, but they are *so* close -- and if you look closely, the cigarette is visible in the second image (in his mouth).

Anyway, identical or not, this is the first example I thought of.

Interesting. Are they on different labels? Or is one a subsidiary of the other?

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Oh PIX please TTK. I'm gasping to see these!

I'm having issues with posting pix.  

[Steve Gray]

 

 

[HutchFan]

 

 

MG -- Just like your first post of Earl Hines on those Black Lion LPs.  Except this time it was Pablo being lazy.

 

Edited October 7, 2021 by HutchFan

[gvopedz]

A few people still believe that the cover of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album is identical to the cover of Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band album. 

Take another look at the two covers side by side.