The New Generation was a 1970s US studio vocal group. This is the only album they released. It came out in 1973 on the RCA Camden label. Fonts that are used in half of the titles are in Bookman Swash and Uncle Bill. The songs titles are set in a version of Stymie.

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Wasting Light is the seventh studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on April 12, 2011, through Roswell and RCA Records.

Wanting to capture the essence of their earlier work and avoid the perceived artificiality of digital recording, Foo Fighters recorded the album in the garage of frontman Dave Grohl’s home in Encino, California, using only analog equipment. The sessions were produced by the band alongside Butch Vig, with whom Grohl had worked on Nirvana’s Nevermind. Since the old equipment did not allow for many mistakes to be corrected in post-production, the band spent three weeks rehearsing the songs, and Vig had to relearn outdated editing techniques. […]

The art direction was done by New York studio Morning Breath Inc., and keeping with the album’s analog recording, the images did not use computer graphics, instead being created with “old tools of the trade” such as copy machines, transparent ink and X-Acto blades; the result was not printed in CMYK.

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This album with interpretations of romantic music by Vilnius-born violinst Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987) was released by RCA Red Seal in 1971. It features the light weight of Caruso Roxy, in all caps and with white dots on the I’s.

“The violinist of the century” is set in a wide style from the Sacramento series, in contoured caps. The names of the tracks are in some Helvetica-like substance with a non-standard a. Since the other two fonts are Photo-Lettering exclusives, it stands to reason that their phototype adaptation included such an alternate.

The illustration is by Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) who is known for hiding the name of his daughter, Nina, in most of the drawings he produced after her birth. Zoom in to spot it.

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Lightfoot Country – Sings Canadian Folksongs Of Gordon Lightfoot is a studio album by American country musician George Hamilton IV, released in 1969 on the RCA Camden label. The album features Hamilton's interpretations of songs written by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. This album cover’s typography exclusively uses Oxford Italic

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Cover of the mono release, with the number (LM-2896) at the bottom, in Akzidenz-Grotesk

Julian Bream (1933–2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. In the fall of 1965 he recorded an album with his interpretation of the Lute Suites that Johann Sebastian Bach composed in the first half of the 18th century. It was released by RCA Red Seal in 1966.

The uncredited cover designer selected a typeface from the late 19th century. With the exuberance of decorative tendrils, it may still be described as baroque. It’s Nymphic, designed by Herman Ihlenburg and first cast in 1889 by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. Or rather, it’s Xenotype 3799, a phototype revival of Nymphic made at Photo-Lettering in the first half of the 1960s. The spacing is decidedly of its time: tight-not-touching – much tighter than what was possible with metal type in previous decades.

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For the stereo release, the number (LSC-2896) was moved to the top, pushing the typographic composition down. “Stereo” is added in all-caps Venus Extended.

A sample of 18 point Nymphic as it was presented in Inland Printer, volume 7, issue 2, from November 1889, here with its lowercase characters and the alternate oversized display caps, or initials. The four arrow-spoked asterisk used on the album cover can be found back as well.

The Art of the Spanish Guitar is an album by Julian Bream, released in 1970 on the RCA Red Seal label. It contains interpretations of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten and others.

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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (commonly referred to as the Purple Tape) is the debut studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, released on August 1, 1995, by Loud Records and RCA Records. [...] Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... has received acclaim from music critics and writers over the years, with many lauding it as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

The cover art is credited to Daniel Hastings (photography), Miguel Rivera (design) and Christian Cortes (set & logo design) of the company Cartel. Daniel Hastings was interviewed by egotripland.com about the making of the cover in 2011.

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Peter Max’s Riverside Drive including its star-spangled Stars E style, used together with E.R. Weiß’s Weiß-Initialen Serie II, featuring both its forms for A and the round uncialish E, for the album cover to the Philadelphia Orchestra’s recording of The Planets, led by Eugene Ormandy.

The illustration by Colos shows the seven planets featured in Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite, populated by their respective Roman deities and surrounded by various constellations. In this interpretation, the planets don’t revolve around the sun, but rather around a colorful Earth covered by dark clouds.

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“Hand Me Down World” is song written by Kurt Winter (1946–1997), performed and released in 1970 by Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The colorful sleeve for the Spanish release was designed by Ponce De León.

The richly ornamented capitals they used for the band name were conceived by Jean Midolle and shown under the title Romaine (genre arabesque) in his lettering sampler Spécimen des écritures modernes from around 1835. The version used here probably is the Mecanorma adaptation for dry transfer lettering which was released in 1967, six years after Armin Haab unearthed the alphabet for Lettera 2. Mecanorma also carried a version of Folio, as “Folio-Caravelle”, including the extrafett style seen here.

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“Big Energy” is a song by American rapper Latto. It was released through Streamcut and RCA Records on September 24, 2021, as the lead single from Latto’s second studio album, 777 (2022). […] A remix with American singer Mariah Carey featuring DJ Khaled was released on March 28, 2022, with an interpolation of Carey’s song “Fantasy”, which also heavily samples “Genius of Love”. Following the release of the remix, “Big Energy” earned Latto her first top 10 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three in April 2022. It also hit number one on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart for 2 weeks. Consequently, it became the highest-charting solo song by a female rapper since March 2021. The song also reached the top 10 in Australia and Canada, and top 20 in New Zealand. “Big Energy” became Latto’s breakthrough on mainstream radio, and she performed the song live on several television appearances. The live version received a nomination for Best Melodic Rap Performance at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.

The font in use is Lovelo Black, the solid style of Fontfabric’s all-caps display family, with a glow effect. The squarish sans used for “featuring” is yet unidentified.

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Richard A. Schlatter’s Wexford (VGC, 1972) in its lightest, unnamed weight, for an album with music by Antonín Dvořák, recorded by the Guarneri Quartet with Arthur Rubinstein and released on RCA Red Seal in 1973.

The Czech composer’s name is rendered in caps from the same typeface, squeezed and filled with pictures of sheet music in different pastel colors. The diacritics probably are custom additions.

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There Is More to Life is a gospel album by George Beverly Shea (1909–2013), released in 1970 by RCA Records and featuring a blend of traditional hymns and more contemporary gospel sounds.

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“maryfrances” is a album by Skeeter Davis, released in 1969 on RCA Records, and titled after her given first names. The artist’s name and the album title are in Vivaldi with the song list in News Gothic. The photography is by Bill Grine. No designer is credited.

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Mind Garage was an American psychedelic rock and roll band from Morgantown, West Virginia, and a progenitor of Christian rock music. Their “Electric Liturgy” performed in 1968 was the first documented Christian rock worship service, and their 1969 eponymous debut RCA album was one of the earliest Christian rock albums released.

The band’s name is set using Calendar.

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Tousan was the name used by Allen Toussaint early in his career. This album with instrumentals was released by RCA Records in 1958. The cover photography is by Nolan A. Marshall.

The typography combines Caslon No. 540 Italic with what looks like Condensed Title Gothic No. 11. The tall gothic caps used for “WILD” are from an unidentified typeface.

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Black Casual, the phototype adaptation of Walter Haettenschweiler’s Lettre Coupé, is probably best known as one of the arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath: it was used on the cover of their 1970 album Paranoid.

Here it can be seen in use on a 1975 French single sleeve by Seven Seas, with music produced Steve Alaimo, Clarence “Blowfly” Reid, and Willie Clarke.

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Excellent Jawsploitation Funk instrumentals.
1975 French pressing on RCA-Victor label.

The record probably was released around the time Steven Spielberg’s JAWS came to movie theaters fifty years ago.

The script is either Riviera by Headliners or its close follower Dolphin Script by Lettergraphics.

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Grazin’ is the debut album by The Friends of Distinction, released in 1969 by RCA Victor. The album features the group’s biggest hit, “Grazing in the Grass”, a soulful vocal adaptation of Hugh Masekela’s instrumental hit, which became a Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album cover was designed by Apple Graphics and prominently features the use of Futura Black.

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Robert Montgomery’s Pousse Cafe in early use for a compilation album with eight rare recordings of jazz and swing music by Barney Bigard & Orchestra, Albert Nicholas, Bernard Addison & His Rhythm a.k.a. Freddie Jenkins & His Harlem Seven, and The Little Ramblers, released in 1969 by RCA Victor in their Vintage Series.

The typeface’s “plywood” layers inspired the uncredited designer to apply a similar effect to the silhouettes of the two titular clarinetists.

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Found and suggested by Javi Gonzalez.

Il tabarro (The Cloak) is a one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini. This recording featuring Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes was released on RCA Red Seal Records in 1971. Erich Leinsdorf conducted the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

The title is set in all caps from Davison Moulin Rouge Gothic, filled with three colored stripes. The names of Puccini above and of the artists below use Helvetica, also in all caps.

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Released in 1977 by RCA Special Products, this triple LP compilation features songs by Neil Sedaka, Del Shannon, Paul Anka, Sam Cooke, Dion DiMucci, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Clanton, Bobby Vinton, Tommy James & The Shondells, Conway Twitty, and Fabian.

The cover design uses Pluto in tightly spaced caps, with a two-color fill.

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