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Usually their facts have been wrong, but the errors have been escalating in this decade due to the factually incorrect anointment of someone they claim to be \"The Inventor of the Record Album Cover.\" Alex Steinweiss is a talented and inventive illustrator, and was responsible for some of the most memorable illustrated record album covers. But in recent years several books and many articles and internet blogs have been crediting him with INVENTING the very concept of illustrated covers, and changing how records were displayed in stores, citing the outlandish theory that before Steinweiss, records were packaged in plain brown kraft sleeves and plain albums. Record collectors and archivists know that this isn't true, but the writers who are promoting these tales and elevating Steinweiss to mythical proportions are exclusively non-collectors or are limited to CDs and LPs. It has been impossible to convince them other- wise, and I am now setting out to demonstrate with actual photographic proof that there were perhaps hundreds of distinctive illustrated album covers issued by many companies for years prior to Steinweiss's first cover, Columbia C-11, Musical Comedy Hits by Rodgers \u0026amp; Hart, issued in 1940."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["The history of record album covers has long been the subject of interest among collectors, and there have been many books published of and about covers since the 1970s. Most of them are of the LP era, but occasionally they have attempted to give a history of covers on earlier formats. Usually their facts have been wrong, but the errors have been escalating in this decade due to the factually incorrect anointment of someone they claim to be \"The Inventor of the Record Album Cover.\" Alex Steinweiss is a talented and inventive illustrator, and was responsible for some of the most memorable illustrated record album covers. But in recent years several books and many articles and internet blogs have been crediting him with INVENTING the very concept of illustrated covers, and changing how records were displayed in stores, citing the outlandish theory that before Steinweiss, records were packaged in plain brown kraft sleeves and plain albums. Record collectors and archivists know that this isn't true, but the writers who are promoting these tales and elevating Steinweiss to mythical proportions are exclusively non-collectors or are limited to CDs and LPs. It has been impossible to convince them other- wise, and I am now setting out to demonstrate with actual photographic proof that there were perhaps hundreds of distinctive illustrated album covers issued by many companies for years prior to Steinweiss's first cover, Columbia C-11, Musical Comedy Hits by Rodgers \u0026amp; Hart, issued in 1940."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128006/file/239727","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2010_Biel_audio.mp3"]},"duration":3447.41369,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128006/file/239727/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128006/file/239727/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/727/original/ARSC_conf_2010_Biel_audio.mp3?1714072767","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":3447.41369,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128006/file/239727","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}