The Chase #12 cover art
Hiroshi Nagai
A series of twelve spoken word records for a story called The Chase were released in Japan during the early 1980's. The stories that are told on these records were written by novelist Sidney Sheldon, who is also the man responsible for creating The Patty Duke Show and I Dream Of Jeannie among other television projects. The albums are narrated by Orson Welles, and they were created as a tool to help Japanese speakers learn the English language.
I haven't had an opportunity to listen to any of these records, but I'm fascinated by the pop art on the cover. Each of the albums features the work of artist Hiroshi Nagai. The cover of the 12th and final album in the series is my favorite, but they're all very good. You can see the rest of them (except for volume #5) on Flickr courtesy of David Faulhaber.
