![]() ![]() However, it was the advent of the long-playing 33⅓rpm record that changed everything. The first signs of change came in the 30s, from pioneering designers such as Alex Steinweiss, whose illustrated covers – for singers such as Paul Robeson, or the classical records of Beethoven – led to huge increases in sales. Sometimes the discs were contained in a leather book, similar to a photographic album. The name “album” comes from a pre-war era when it literally referred to the album that contained the 78rpm shellac disc, held in a drab heavy paper sleeve with only a title embossed on the front and spine. ![]() Billions of music fans over the past century have taken pleasure from looking again and again at old album covers. Tony Bennett said of the marvelous album covers of the 50s that, when you bought a record, “you felt like you were taking home your very own work of art.” Indeed, artwork can be as much a part of the identity of a record as the sound. ![]()
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