Music To Make Your Eyeballs Pop
July, 1958
Music to Make Your Eyeballs PopDuring The Last half decade, LP manufacturers did a lot to pep up the product – outside as well as in. They called on top-notch artists and designers to turn out genuinely jazzy jacket art (we reproduced a batch of the better efforts in May 1956) that helped sales to soar. They also turned to a discovery made by the paperback publishers before them: that a seasoning of sex on covers could jack up the sales curve still higher.Playing a fast game of one-up-womanship,...