Ugella and the Viking Pops Orchestra

Here's an lp with pretty standard label format. What attracted me to the composition was the hand drawn viking mask with the downward-pointing V. There's a real Baphomet vibe about it. It ties in well with the song titles.

The Man-Thing

Monster mummies in professional wrestling poses. Lots of kid appeal. I was surprised that the "powers" at Power Records didn't put the actual Marvel Man-Thing on the label. Maybe the Ent-Skookum-Snuffleupagus Man-Thing was too difficult to simplify in label form.

Man's Inhumanity to Man

The next two posts are monster tale labels. The graphic design and story writing are done by the same person: Frank Daniel. Pickwick records.

unknown

The look of this label kind of gives the impression that after one lesson, you'll play like John Fahey. Silver on black with a formidable font.

Mr Executive

One way to have a full human figure on a record label is to have the person doing jumping jacks. I think it was that initial idea that got the brains at Mr. Executive to do a fitness album.

Rip Rig and Panic

Punk rock and rollers and teeny boppers

Because You Care Flexi

With the name Baptist Children's Home, I think of a Nursing Home with children knitting in a full-immersion baptismal font.

Jiggers!

There's a big bite out of the vinyl, so I can only imagine what Jiggers knows about ghosts and happiness.

Help!

I found this 45 at a thrift store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It seems that if nothing else, the illustrator is between the ages of four and nine, and has a definite sense of how to create an exclamation point. I hadn't really started collecting records when I got this one, so maybe this was my great start.