Kool & The Gang – Wild and Peaceful
Wild And Peaceful (1973) was the fourth album by the American funk band Kool & the Gang, and their commercial breakthrough album. The record contains a few hits including “Jungle Boogie”, which became very popular in nightclubs; it was also used as a musical background in the opening titles of Pulp Fiction some twenty years after its release.
“Jungle Boogie” is just so awesome! Funkiest song ever recorded in my opinion, sorry James, Sly, Parliament, and whoever else, but Kool & the Gang has it. Everything about it is shear perfection. (…) I played this for a girl I was dating one time and she said she’d never heard the song before. Needless to say, that relationship didn’t last long. — Dick_B1, rateyourmusic.com
The band name and the album title are set on a curve with Benguiat Downsie (Photo-Lettering, Inc., ca. 1971). A reversed contrast display type, with a design similar to Gothic Bold (1899) and Zipper (1970) but made in four differently shaded versions. For this album, Richard Askew used variant “C”, with a solid shade, and combined it with art by Joseph Askew. The back cover uses Univers, and the text on the stickers is set with Frankfurter.
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Legit find! Downsie is a doosie – one of the many faces drawn by Ed Benguiat that didn’t make it to digital yet. I hope the folks of Photo-Lettering.com have plans to remedy that.
I wonder if the cover artist is identical with Joseph F. Askew:
This would explain why the only other album cover he is credited for on Discogs is an Austrian schlager pop record from 1982.