![]() ![]() “It’s us again, gang…mercenary Marble, trying to sell another million copies of NBE by presenting our voomy version of one of the most popular LP albums this side of ‘Sing along with Forbush-Man!’.” (That last, by the way, is a riff of Mitch Miller’s 1961-1964 TV program, “Sing Along With Mitch.”) Now, what about our parody? It starts with a “Golden Wreckord Dept” intro. ![]() Are these drawings “nostalgia for American folk culture” and “satire of contemporary American culture” or are they essentially sexist and racist? I’m not going to weigh in on that. More extreme is the illustration for “Summertime,” a Gershwin song originally from “Porgy and Bess,” in which Crumb portrays a stereotype of an African-American “mammy” who is holding a squalling white baby. For the song, “I Need a Man to Love,” Crumb posed Janis on a bed, looking out at us longingly, wearing fishnet stocking and, clearly, no brassiere underneath her dress. The cover illustrates the songs and the performers. You could also say that Crumb indulges in racist and sexist images. Crumb entry: “His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.” That’s one way of looking at it. While I’m on this Wikipedia kick, here’s a quote from their R. ![]() Wikipedia also tells us that “Initially, the album was to be called Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but the title was not received well by Columbia Records” and that “It is number nine on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest album covers.” He refused to be paid, saying, 'I don't want Columbia's filthy lucre.'" But Joplin-an avid fan of underground comics, especially the work of Crumb-so loved the Cheap Thrills illustration that she demanded Columbia place it on the front cover…There were no changes with R. According to Wikipedia, “Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Janis Joplin to grace the front. The cover is as notable as the music, drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. It is the record that made Janis Joplin famous so that she left the band and went solo at the end of 1968 even as the album became the top seller of the year. ![]()
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