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English Rose, a December 1968 U.S.-only compilation by Fleetwood Mac, featuring drummer Mick Fleetwood in drag. I’ve owned this record since age 16.

As a longtime record collector, I have to admit that sometimes I buy records for the album art rather than for the music inside. I like oddball album art. Occasionally, weird album art and good music can be found in the same package, but that’s usually just a happy circumstance. Here are a few in my collection.

• Liz Anderson, Husband Hunting
This well-known country songwriter and mother of country star Lynn Anderson released this album in 1970. Here’s the opening of the title tune:
“I’m lonely and I’m looking for a husband
Like I do every Friday at this time
A frisky-thinking, whiskey-drinking husband
I’m looking for a husband and he’s mine.”

• Brother JT, The Svelteness of Boogietude
A great record with a cover that always catches my eye. This is a 2013 release. Brother JT is John Terlesky, a Pennsylvanian who channels Marc Bolan of T-Rex fame on this record.

• Johnny Cash, The Holy Land
This 1968 release probably doesn’t translate well in a photo. What you have to know is that the photo of Cash is presented in a 3-D hologram on the album cover. That must have been quite the thing back in ’68 because I have a record released that year by Johnny Nash (Soul Folk) that also features him in hologram 3-D.

• Ray Charles, Do the Twist
Pity the poor fool who bought this record in 1961 thinking they were going to hear Mr. Charles doing the Twist. It’s actually a compilation of nine previously released songs by Charles. In 1963, after the dance craze had faded into history, the album was re-releaed under the new title The Greatest Ray Charles.

• Cher, Half-Breed
I debated whether to highlight this cover or the cover for The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher. This 1973 release won by a Cher hair. Recorded with the famous LA Wrecking Crew band, the title song became Cher’s second hit single, after “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves” from 1971.

• David Allan Coe, Penitentiary Blues
Would you buy a record from this man? The cover for this 1970 debut record by country outlaw Coe says nothing. It just features his ugly mug. It’s pure redneck voodoo blues.

• Faces, Ooh La La
The last studio album by the band featured a movable face on the cover. Press down on the top to make the eyes and mouth move. It’s a 1973 release. You’ve heard the title track in many movies and commercials.

• Joe Farrell, Canned Funk
This 1975 release is on the glossy CTI label, which I have been collecting for years. Love the record by saxophonist Farrell, but don’t know why an eye is in a can of peaches.

• The Best of Freddy Fender
I do not know what Freddy is doing to that cactus and I do not want to know. All I can do is ask, why Freddy, why? This is a 1977 compilation release.

• Sally Field, Star of The Flying Nun
This 1967 release has Sally Field singing and capitalizing on her mid-1960s hit TV show The Flying Nun. I believe it was the last time Miss Field opened her mouth to sing.

• Roberta Flack, Quiet Fire
I love the way the designer used Flack’s afro as a design element in this 1971 release.

• Funkadelic, Maggot Brain
Great record. Strange cover. It was shot by Joel Brodsky, who shot many album covers, including Funkadelic’s Free Your Mind…and Your Ass Will Follow, as well as for The Doors, Van Morrison, MC5, Isaac Hayes and Herbie Mann. This is a 1971 release, and the final record by the original Funkadelic lineup. The 10-minute title track features amazing guitar from Eddie Hazel.

• Judas Priest, British Steel
This 1980 release makes my fingers hurt every time I see it.

• Mellodies of Dick Kossins
An in-joke from this Chicago polka band has the bandleader’s wife, Marian Kosskins, pulling the strings. I own two copies of this 1971 release. Why!

• Soul Asylum, Clam Dip and Other Delights
This is, of course, a spoof of the famous 1965 Whipped Cream and Other Delights album cover by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. That’s bass player Karl Mueller taking the role of Dolores Erickson, who fueled many a male fantasy on the Tijuana Brass cover. This is a 1989 release.

• Augie Meyer, Augie’s Western Head Music Co.
The first thing about this record, his name is Augie Meyers, not Meyer. Along with Doug Sahm, he was a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and played the Vox on great tunes such as “Mendocino” and “She’s About a Mover.” He and Sahm later went on to found the Texas Tornados with Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez. This 1971 album is great, but why is Augie trying to give his steed a joint?

• The T-Bones, No Matter what Shape (Your Stomach’s In)
This 1966 record is an oddity in that the title tune is taken from an Alka-Seltzer commercial and became a hit. When the record hit, the LA studio musicians who recorded it, known as The Wrecking Crew (they recorded for many stars, including serving as Cher’s band on the above-mentioned Half-Breed), refused to tour behind their hit, so a touring group of The T-Bones was formed. The touring group of the T-Bones went on to record in the ’70s as Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds.

• The Young Rascals
This 1966 debut by the blue-eyed soul group features the fellows dressed up like Little Lord Fauntleroy. It was the time of weirdly costumed groups, but this has to be the worst example of that time. The record included their first hit, “Good Lovin’” as well as the Steve Cropper/Wilson Pickett-penned “In the Midnight Hour” and the song that went on to become a favorite of bar bands everywhere – “Mustang Sally.”