Are you sure? I remember Slappy showing up on things like the Dean Martin roasts and I'm sure he was black. Is that guy on the album cover black? Is the girl? Wow--if not, they didn't sell that album south of the Mason-Dixon Line!
Also--the guy front and center on the Orleans album cover so generously linked to by Jeff is now (or was a couple of election cycles ago) a New York State representative.
Well, I was thinking there might be a "Slappy" White and a Slappy White, but that could be way wrong. Maybe they were afraid to put a black man on the cover, though that seems unlikely. Come to think of it, I have no idea what's going on.
Slappy White was definitely black. Just google him. Though Deb may have him confused with Nipsey Russell, who I'm sure also appeared on Dean Marin roasts. A.S.
My guess is at the time it would have been considered wildly inappropriate, not to mention in some places illegal, for a black man and a white woman to be photographed together in a tableau like that album cover, hence the white guy and the "featuring Slappy White" side note.
A.S.--I know who Nipsey Russell is, I wasn't confusing him with Slappy. I remember Slappy on the TV in the early 1970s, I thought on the Roast shows, but perhaps something else.
And looking at it again, it does resemble the Party Record equivalent of the Motown covers that studiously avoided showing the bands/choruses, since that would make sales a bit more difficult in more segregated towns...
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I can't believe they didn't include this one.
And let's not forget Tino.
Or better yet, let's.
Jeff
Those are really bad.
I think my classical array is still worse, on average.
And how can you do such an array of pop music and omit Millie Jackson?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_S**t!
That is NOT Slappy White on the cover of the Party Gags featuring Slappy White" album.
And where were the Ohio Players album covers? "Honey" featured a woman covered in honey...and nothing else.
No, that's "Slappy" White.
Are you sure? I remember Slappy showing up on things like the Dean Martin roasts and I'm sure he was black. Is that guy on the album cover black? Is the girl? Wow--if not, they didn't sell that album south of the Mason-Dixon Line!
Also--the guy front and center on the Orleans album cover so generously linked to by Jeff is now (or was a couple of election cycles ago) a New York State representative.
Well, I was thinking there might be a "Slappy" White and a Slappy White, but that could be way wrong. Maybe they were afraid to put a black man on the cover, though that seems unlikely. Come to think of it, I have no idea what's going on.
Slappy White was definitely black. Just google him. Though Deb may have him confused with Nipsey Russell, who I'm sure also appeared on Dean Marin roasts.
A.S.
My guess is at the time it would have been considered wildly inappropriate, not to mention in some places illegal, for a black man and a white woman to be photographed together in a tableau like that album cover, hence the white guy and the "featuring Slappy White" side note.
A.S.--I know who Nipsey Russell is, I wasn't confusing him with Slappy. I remember Slappy on the TV in the early 1970s, I thought on the Roast shows, but perhaps something else.
White was definitely on Redd Foxx's shortlived variety show, and probably was on the likes of LAUGH IN at least a little.
And looking at it again, it does resemble the Party Record equivalent of the Motown covers that studiously avoided showing the bands/choruses, since that would make sales a bit more difficult in more segregated towns...
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