I’m Sure Our Parents Looked Like This…

Let’s face it, when we first started to play, we sucked. Some of us sucked harder than others, but we all sucked. :devil2:

OK, OK… I hear the objections coming in already: What about the sax player who started doubling on sax after playing clarinet? Fine, you have me there. That person perhaps only sucked for a short while. 😉

The point is, no matter what instrument we started on, most likely at some point in our learning process, our parents were on the edge of nervous breakdown. They probably looked like the cover art on this Sax Sounds album by Saxomaniac. 

     Source: lpcoverlover.com

Now I’m not seeing the appeal here. If I was part of the 1950s, record buying public, I’m not sure why I would buy this. Yes, it would certainly attract my attention, but would I fork over my hard-earned cash to buy this album?

lpcoverlover.com says that this Apollo record is a jazz saxophone compilation. A quick Google search turned up an Apollo Album Discography, which indicates that this album was released in 1958.

According to the discography page, the following tracks were included on the Saxomaniac album: Pee Wee – Willis “Gator” Jackson/On My Own – Willis “Gator” Jackson/Break – Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson/The Count – Illinois Jacquet/Lover – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis/Mr. Big Horn – Leo Parker // Foxy – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis/Mad Lad – Leo Parker/Going Home – Arnett Cobb/South Street Special – Illinois Jacquet/Pick Up Boys – Ben Webster, Georgie Auld, Coleman Hawkins/Darkness on the Delta – Hilton Jefferson.

This is a pretty impressive line-up for sure, but how serious a sax fanatiac would you have to be to have a reaction like the woman shown on the album cover? She looks like one of those women who, in a few years time, just saw the Beatles.

No, this woman definitely looks a bit disturbed to me.

If the goal of advertising is to have the consumer identify with the product, I’m not sure I’d want to identify with this. Buy hey, I’m not a man. Maybe men would buy it because they want the woman/women in their life to have a Saxomaniac break of some sort. 😈

Meanwhile, in some unnamed company, in an equally unnamed city in the Midwest… 

(Andy): Hey baby, come on over to my place for some martinis. I just got the new Sax Sounds album

(Madge): Oh really? I heard that it will drive me mad. It happened to Mabel in Accounting. She’s still on Valium, after going out with Ted from Sales 3 weeks ago.

(Andy): Come on. You don’t believe that do you? You can trust me. I wouldn’t do anything to turn you into an Sexomaniac.

(Madge): A what?

(Andy): Um… I meant, Saxomaniac… Sure the saxophone is a sexy instrument, but really, you don’t really believe all that subliminal messaging stuff. Do you?  

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