A Brief History of Album Covers, 2017. It’s A Beautiful Day. “It’s A Beautiful Day” [1969]. The sky really was the limit for It’s A Beautiful Day, whose incorporation of flute, violin and keyboards gave them a musical edge over some of their better-known San Francisco contemporaries. Though in tune with strands of the emerging prog-rock scene, they weren’t afraid to incorporate folk, classic and arguably, even world music into their wildly eclectic repertoire. While most of ‘Its A Beautiful Day’s West-Coast contemporaries were still working with designs that threatened a musical content designed to please Timothy Leary’s ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’ crowd, “It’s A Beautiful Day” reflects the album’s musical diversity by showing much more scope than many other sleeves from the West Coast that year. #rockandroll #sanfranciscomusic #sixtiesmusic #itsabeautifulday https://www.instagram.com/kjmr97fm/p/CXb-ru3ukuZ/?utm_medium=tumblr