Jewels of the Sea is a 1961 orchestral exotica album by American composer Les Baxter.
The album was inspired by fantasy ideas of the ocean from pop culture, such as mermaids and sea nymphs, sunken ships, and legendary underwater cities such as Atlantis.
[1][2][3] There was an overall erotic element to the album, whose tagline was "Titillating Orchestrations for Listening and Loving", and whose original cover featured actress and model Diane Webber smiling glamorously underwater, apparently naked.
[3][6][7] All tracks are original compositions with the exception of "The Enchanted Sea", an arrangement of Claude Debussy's La mer.
[13] Adapted from the liner notes of the CD reissue of Jewels of the Sea, track lengths from iTunes.