Soul Mann & The Brothers – Shaft album art

The cover of the official soundtrack to Shaft uses Pioneer. So does the movie poster. The record covers depicted here feature Pioneer, too — but it’s a completely different typeface. Designed by Francisco Gonzales, it was shown in PLINC’s Alphabet Yearbook 1969. A year later, ITC released an unrelated (albeit also shaded all-caps) typeface designed by Tom Carnase and Ronné Bonder under the same name. While ITC Pioneer is still around, the earlier Gonzales Pioneer is largely forgotten. I wonder if its appearance here is just a coincidence, or if it was picked by mistake, due to a name mix-up.

Music from the movie Shaft, arranged by Sy Mann, composed by Isaac Hayes, and performed by Soul Mann & The Brothers. Originally released in 1971 by Pickwick Records, with a cover design by David Lartaud and Frank Daniel [Discogs] that was used in similar form for other editions, too.