Vinyl Album - Julie London - Calendar Girl - Liberty

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Julie London
Title:	Calendar Girl
Label:	Liberty
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	SL 9002 / SL-9002
Date:	Nov 1956
Format:	Mono LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	7 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Julie London	June In January	Robin, Rainger	Rate
A2	Julie London	February Brings The Rain	Bobby Troup	Rate
A3	Julie London	Melancholy March	Herman Saunders, Dory Langdon	Rate
A4	Julie London	I'll Remember April	Don Raye, Gene De Paul, Pat Johnston	Rate
A5	Julie London	People Who Are Born In May	Earl Brent	Rate
A6	Julie London	Memphis In June	Paul Francis Webser, Hoagy Carmichael	Rate
B1	Julie London	Sleigh Ride In July	Burke, Van Huesen	Rate
B2	Julie London	Time For August	Arthur Hamilton	Rate
B3	Julie London	September In The Rain	Warren, Dubin	Rate
B4	Julie London	This October	Bobby Troup	Rate
B5	Julie London	November Twilight	Pete King, Paul Francis Webster	Rate
B6	Julie London	Warm December	Bob Russell	Rate
B7	Julie London	The Thirteenth Month	Arthur Hamilton	Rate

Notes

Producer: Bobby Troup
Cover Photos: Gene Lester
Gatefold cover with pinup photo inside
Outer cover depicts Julie in 12 different monthly themed poses
Liberty burgundy labels with silver print, logo at top of label
Inside cover and record labels state "Liberty Deluxe Series"
Spectra-Sonic Sound

BB Dec 8, 1956, p. 28 (Review Spotlight)

Images

Number: 1055436 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Front Cover (Gatefold Right)	Number: 1055437 Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Back Cover (Gatefold Left)	Number: 1055457 Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: The Thirteenth Month (Inside Cover Right)	Number: 1055458 Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Liner Notes (Inside Cover Left)
Number: 1055459 Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Side One	Number: 1055460 Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Side Two	Number: 1060398 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Billboard, Dec 8, 1956, p. 28	Number: 2604430 Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: alt label side 1
Number: 2604431 Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: alt label side 2

Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 18th May 2016		According to Wikipedia, The first gatefold LP packaging used with a traditional 33⅓ LP may have been the Verve release Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, issued in late 1956, featuring 32 songs on two long-playing monophonic records, on Verve MGV-4001-2. As said there, that one was a double album which rather suggests a gatefold cover, but it was actually released some months earlier, around June 1956 (sold at costly $9.90, with heavy national promotion according to the Billboard review). I don't know the original price of this one here, but the Billboard reviewer was very impressed by the cover ("One of the most expensive pop album packaging jobs in some time, this is a double-fold deal with outside covers carrying a dozen pin-up poses of the thrush ...") and it was selected for the (possibly newly created) category Album Covers of the Week ("One of the flashiest covers brought out by the label, this features thrush Julie London in a dozen pin-up poses, one for every month of the year. ...", see uploaded snippet).



fixbutte 18th May 2016		This was apparently one of the first gatefold covers ever, and for obvious reasons. As Dr Doom commented on Facebook: Julie London's classic 'Calendar Girl' proving that record companies have been joyfully exploiting women's sexual allure for over 60 years. Does anyone smell cheesecake? Although the album was only the second entry in Liberty's new "Deluxe Series", it seems that it was the real reason for the whole series. Because of the gatefold attribute, the second half of the year is on the original front cover (actually the right side of the unfolded image), whereas the UK reissue of 1983, which was possibly no gatefold, has the first six months on the front cover.

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Linked Releases

UK - London - 1957

UK - Edsel - 1983