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Decca records seemed to also have caught on to the “Big heads” aesthetic, and the resulting album cover is designed to catch your attention and make you buy it before it sinks in that the cover is ugly and, well…
I would place this record in the mod-50s to mid-60s. Fritz Schultz-Reichel (his real name) was born in 1921 and acquired his alter-ego of Crazy Otto in 1953. He was touted to do the same for Jazz that Victor Borge did for classical music, and that is to be its court jester, poking fun at many aspects of the genre. A reissue was made in 2008 on Apple ITunes on the Hallmark label with a redesigned cover and Otto’s big head again. |
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Neil Young should be commended for still making records these days. This is his 40th year as a musician and he’s still at it, with his 2009 album “Fork In The Road”.
No more pretty boy record covers for him, like Decade. No, he would play the part of an Amish farmer better than of a travelling troubador. So you do what Amish farmers do when they see something like a camera: you say something like: “what happens if I press *this* button?” SNAP! and there’s your album cover. If we do a turn on an old ethnic joke: a <fill in your ethnic group> drives by and asks Neil for help. He can barely speak English: Neil: Can I help you? Ethnic: Me looking for a fock Neil: There’s a cat-house down the road a mile- Ethnic: I no look for cats! Meester, you no unnerstan’. I want a fock on the road- Neil: I don’t know if any of them are into that. Sorry I couldn’t help you |
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