The original soundtrack for the 1975 film Let’s Do It Again was performed by The Staple Singers, a vocal group from Chicago formed by Roebuck “Pops” Staples and his children. The music was written by Curtis Mayfield, who previously contributed the soundtrack to Super Fly from 1972. The title track became a number one hit on both the R&B and Pop charts. Screenwriter Richard Wesley “credited much of the film’s success to the success of the song, which was released prior to the film’s debut.” [Wikipedia]

The album cover by Brad Kanawyer features the same illustration by Sandy Kossin that also appeared on one of the movie posters, see the dedicated post on Fonts In Use. While the posters use Sanditype for the typography, the record cover was designed with Swath, a typeface of similar weight and proportion. Like Sanditype, it also has a dotted I. Maybe Kanawyer wanted to match the type on the posters, but didn’t have access to Sanditype, which was exclusively available from Photo-Lettering in New York. Swath was released as part of Alphabet Innovations, vol. 3. Settings could be ordered from any of the franchisees of Phil Martin’s type company. You can read more about the business model of Alphabet Innovations in Mark Simonson’s 2004 interview with Phil Martin.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees wrote “Israel” while touring Europe in autumn 1980, as a sort of Christmas song. It was released as a stand-alone single between the albums Kaleidoscope (1980) and Juju (1981) on 28 November 1980, with “Red over White” as B-side.

On this German sleeve, the song names are set in a rarely seen typeface designed by Phil Martin of Alphabet Innovations in 1970: Swath is basically a bold all-caps sans of condensed proportions. Added to that are various rounded details, hanging bits and extensions, as if the letterforms were bandaged up, with some of the gauze coming loose. I wonder if Swath was ever chosen for any mummy-themed applications.

The band name appears to be in custom brush lettering.

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