On View
Musical Crossroads Gallery
Exhibition
Musical Crossroads
Published by
Decca Records, British, founded 1929
Recorded by
Fitzgerald, Ella, American, 1917 - 1996
Date
1955
Medium
vinyl with ink on paper and cardboard
Dimensions
H x W (b:album jacket): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.3 × 31.3 cm)
Diameter (a:disc): 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Description
A 33 1/3 rpm LP vinyl disc (a) with cardboard album jacket (b) of Lullabies of Birdland. The black vinyl disc has a black with silver text “DECCA” label that includes album title, artist, track listings, and copyright information. The front of the album jacket has a black background with a blue tinted photographic image of Ella Fitzgerald. Shown from the shoulders up, she wears an off the shoulders dark top and sings into a microphone with her eyes closed. Across the top is orange and white text with the title [LULLABIES / OF / BIRDLAND] on the left and the artist [ELLA / FITZGERALD] on the right, separated by a central graphic line. The Decca Records logo is in the upper right corner and the track listing, in alternating orange and white text, is printed down the left side. The back cover of the album jacket is off-white with black printing. It features two columns of biographical notes about Fitzgerald along with a black-and-white portrait of Fitzgerald within a birdcage illustration at the right side, above the track listing. The Decca Records logo is at the bottom right corner. At the top margin is a stamp that reads “QUALITY MUSIC CO.” Release number DL 8149.
Place made
United States, North and Central America
Classification
Record Albums
Type
record covers
long-playing records
Topic
Jazz (Music)
Singers (Musicians)
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Savanna Vaughn and C. Warfield Clark, M.D.
Object number
2011.173.46ab
Restrictions & Rights
© 1955 Decca Records
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5171519d1-7584-444a-8644-db1d713cc5e9

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