While that reply was only a cruel tease... I already have so many questions... well, two questions:
1) Who made the decision to release the "Chipmunk Song" album with cover art depicting grasshoppers? Either that guy was heavily into LSD before it was cool... or he had balls the size of cantaloupes... either way I want to shake his hand.
2) How the fuck wasn't K-Tel sued into the dirt for that "Looney Tunes" album cover? They were somehow able to completely rip off the Looney Tunes name, workmark and concentric circle thingy.. I guess they passed the legal test by using generic cartoon band members and not Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd?!? Lawyers and Law... I tell you... modern day witches and witchcraft...
Also, I am very disappointed that I've never come across any Freddie Fender in my thrift store browsing. His picture takes me back to my high school days in the late 80s / early 90s. I was into photography at the time, back in the days when you had to hunker down in a dark room and inhale noxious fumes from whothefuck knows what kind of chemicals in order to develop photographs onto paper. So of course, I spent two years on the yearbook staff. There was a shelf in the yearbook room where we had a copy of every yearbook the school ever produced dating back to it's founding in 1951 or whenever it was. There were a bunch of student pictures in the 1970s yearbooks when the crazed hair would take up all or almost all of the frame... leaving little to none of the background visible. Most of these were 1970s era black girls, but you'd get the occasional determined latino like Freddie or maybe a jewfro here and there... but mostly black girls. It looked a little something like this:
