Friday, October 28, 2005

Oodles of Doodles CXLI


I've been ignoring the fine folks over at Command for my doodles (with the exception of this Christmas doodle, which really isn't a doodle in the strictest sense of the word), but I've decided I need to right that wrong and start getting some of these excellent bits in here. So I'm starting with this great little sketch from an artist known only as Sandy from Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's Starring Enoch Light And The Light Brigade (Command RS 814 SD, 1960). Those of you familiar with the Command Records label know about the eye-catching cover art they helped the label stand out on record shelves. They all had a certain style about them, looking more like modern art than album covers. The music on the inside was always well recorded, and technically perfect, if not a little dry. Enoch Light was the mastermind behind the label, and he wanted everything to be his way or no way. The record jackets were almost all large gatefolds, and the doodles all seem to be on the inside of those, along with many, many paragraphs of purple prose about the recorded contents. You'd have to read fast to take it all in before the record ended.

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