Album Covers
Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) paints album covers for AirFlo
records in the film
Xanadu; Kira (Olivia Newton-John)
is his Greek Muse (Terpsichore) ~ Gene Kelly's (age 68) in
his last role in film (he will later host/narrate "That's
Dancing" and "That's Entertainment III").
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When it comes to the extras (AKA 'gatefold') in albums
you can thank Canton, Ohio native
Enoch Light who
pioneered the format...
"Gatefold packaging for LPs was popularized in the late 1950s by band leader
and stereophonic studio recording pioneer Enoch Light, so he could fit
notes he had written describing the sounds in each song on the album sleeve.
~ In order to fit all of his descriptions on to the album sleeve, he
doubled the size of the sleeve but enabled it to fold like a book, thus
popularizing the gatefold packaging format." A few of his album covers had
die-cut out areas to show art work on the inner sleeve.
This style of a cover would later be used for the Rolling Stones album
Some Girls (1978)
"An elaborate die-cut design, with the colours on the sleeves varying in
different markets, it featured the Rolling Stones' faces alongside those
of select female celebrities inserted into a copy of an old Valmor Products
Corporation advertisement." The faces could be seen thru the die-cut holes
in the cover.
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As Paul Harvey would say..."and now you know the rest of the story."
- for those who don't know who Paul Harvey was... a radio snippet...
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