Start Movin’ With Sal

Okay, before you start reading this, please remove the pop stars of the last ten or fifteen years from your head.

How often is it you get to see a musician’s private parts?!? Exciting right?? I know, it’s pretty common in the sex sells culture we live in today, but historically it hasn’t always been that way. There were fines for hip shaking and everything was hush-hush, even during the hippie 1970s, it wasn’t like today. Sal Mineo got naked for art though, pretty amazing art too!

Sal Mineo was the model for Harold Stevenson’s painting The New Adam. The painting currently is part of the Guggenheim Museum’s permanent collection, and is considered “one of the great American nudes”. You can check it out HERE (NSFW).

Side One

Start Movin’ (In My Direction)

Side Two

Love Affair

Sal Says You Shouldn’t Do That

Salvatore “Sal” Mineo, Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976), was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John “Plato” Crawford in the film Rebel Without a Cause. In 1957, Mineo made a brief foray into pop music by recording a handful of songs and an album. Two of his singles reached the Top 40 in the United States Billboard Hot 100.

After a lull, Mineo’s career had begun to turn aroundby 1976. While playing the role of a bisexual burglar in a series of stage performances of the comedy, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, in San Francisco, Mineo received substantial publicity from many positive reviews, and he moved to Los Angeles along with the play.

Mineo was arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, when he was stabbed to death in the alley behind his apartment building in West Hollywood, California. Mineo was stabbed just once, not repeatedly as first reported, but the knife blade struck his heart, leading to immediate and fatal internal bleeding.

Side One

You Shouldn’t Do That

Side Two

Lasting Love