{"id":5776,"date":"2009-07-29T03:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2011-11-11T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:36:36","slug":"the-fabulous-fifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/07\/29\/the-fabulous-fifties\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fabulous Fifties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay, so it’s not all Fifties’ design\u2014the Moog album is from 1974\u2014but these are more choice Flickr postings from a set devoted to album sleeves<\/a> of the Easy Listening variety. Much of the music would no doubt erode my patience very quickly but there’s some nice (uncredited) design work going on. Viva! Percussion!<\/em><\/a> has a distinct Saul Bass quality while The Sound of Chris Cross<\/em><\/a> looks like something from the Designers Republic 20 years before its time. The Bolero<\/em><\/a> album I picked solely out of shameless nostalgia. My mother used to have this among her collection of light classical albums and I’d completely forgotten about it until today. This recording would have been the first I heard of any of Ravel’s works. My sister and I used to find the cover slightly rude due to the red points on the ends of the model’s steel brassiere.<\/p>\n

Lots more great sets at the same Flickr account; go and lose yourself<\/a>. Thanks to Thom<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n

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Okay, so it’s not all Fifties’ design\u2014the Moog album is from 1974\u2014but these are more choice Flickr postings from a set devoted to album sleeves of the Easy Listening variety. Much of the music would no doubt erode my patience very quickly but there’s some nice (uncredited) design work going on. Viva! Percussion! has a … Continue reading “The Fabulous Fifties”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[600,646,436],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-music","tag-designers-republic","tag-maurice-ravel","tag-saul-bass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}