[78-L] Alex Steinweiss article

[David Lennick]

Think it'll do any good? I don't. Writers with no frame of reference grab 
whatever they can find, and we've been arguing this matter (as well as 
Steinweiss not being the first to come up with illustrated album covers) as 
long as I've been on this list. I didn't realize Steinweiss was still alive. 
Someone should tell HIM to clarify these matters, don't you think? Or is he 
beyond the point of giving credible interviews?

Here's another example of misinformation becoming permanent. Earlier today I 
was looking for links to a Heritage LP of Alan Jay Lerner songs, since someone 
had said it contained the only uncensored recording of "My Mother's Wedding 
Day" with its original lyrics. It doesn't contain that song, as it happens. But 
every link to that LP that I checked misquoted the catalog number, including 
one that showed the album cover which has the correct number on it, H-0060. One 
person listed it as H-0600 and everyone else copied it. Amazing.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> The Los Angeles Times-and-Throwaway had another article perpetuating the myth that Alex Steinweiss "invented" album cover art. It's plain that the author of the article knew nothing about the subject, saying that before Steinweiss came along, albums "were packaged in plain brown paper sleeves with no lyrics or credits." If we can bombard her with complaints about her article, maybe a clarification will be printed. Her name is Liesl Bradner and she can be reached directly at liesl.bradner at latimes.com. Be polite. She know not what she hath wrought. I've already written to her.
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> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/12/alex-steinweiss-father-of-album-art.html
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> Cary Ginell
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