The Lennon Sisters were known for their performances on the Lawrence Welk Show. This album showcases their style which was often characterized by soft harmonies and covers of popular songs from the era.

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Detail from the back cover, showing the band name in Benguiat Discotheque Contour B.

This compilation consists of five LPs with a total of sixty songs recorded by Percy Faith (1908–1976). For the name of the Canadian–American bandleader and composer, the uncredited cover designer used the lightest weight of Benguiat Discotheque, with some horizontal stretching. The title is in Bookman Swash Bold Italic, used with its characteristic swash alternates for several letters.

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Ed Benguiat’s Discotheque in use on the cover of Robert Lory’s novel The Thirteen Bracelets. This cover is from the first edition published by Ace Books in 1974. The cover art is uncredited (presumably by Davis Meltzer). The title is set in the lightest of Discotheque’s three weights, with the author's name set in a (likely manually) widened version of that weight.

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The synopsis on the back cover is set in all-caps Optima.

The bold weight of Ed Benguiat's Discotheque in use on the jacket of The Other Side of the Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol, a biography of Judy Garland, known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, by author Mel Tormé. It seems the first and second editions of the book used this design.

From the publisher's notes:

“That winter of The Judy Garland Show will never be forgotten by anyone who shared in the unbelievable confusion, excitement, humor, sadness, and frustration of it all. It is a story that has never been told, a profile in some depth of a frenetic nine-month period in Judy’s life. It is a book for the many thousands who were deeply saddened by her death and wonder why her world went to pieces.” Steve Allen wrote, “Mel Tormé sensitively reflects the reality that was Judy Garland. Perhaps only another entertainer could so clearly suggest the puzzling mixture of ego and self-destructive insecurity that tortures so many prominent performers.”

Benguiat Discotheque Bold in early use for the cover of an album with easy listening music, recorded by orchestra leader Billy Vaughn (1919–1991) and released on Pickwick Records in 1967. The track names are set in all-caps Franklin Gothic, with every other line italicized.

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Discotheque was added to Photo-Lettering’s library sometime after 1965. See a previous post about a paperback cover from 1968 for a sample showing three weights of Ed Benguiat’s design.

Benguiat Discotheque is one of the lesser known designs by Ed Benguiat. Drawn in the second half of the 1960s, the amorphous caps appear to be loosely modeled after Walhalla (Klinkhardt, ca. 1900), or after an untitled alphabet shown in J.M. Bergling’s Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914). Discotheque is shown in the One Line catalog (1971) in three weights plus Outline and Contour variants. Benguiat Bravado is a related design. To my knowledge, neither has been digitized yet.

Can Cija – Princess of Atlantis – escape the brutality of Zerd, the “Dragon General”?

The City is part of The Atlan Saga by British fantasy writer Jane Gaskell (b. 1941). First published in 1966, this is the Paperback Library edition from 1968. The cover art is by Jeff Jones.

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A sample of the three solid styles of Benguiat Discotheque, compiled from Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual of Styles (1971).

Art Direction: The Graffiteria / David Krieger. Creative Direction: Larry Shaw, Ron Gorden. Photography: Joel Brodsky.

The light type for “Jean Knight” is unknown to me.

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