The Dave Clark Five – American Tour album art
Two originals from the Photo-Lettering library used together on the cover of American Tour by British pop rock sensation The Dave Clark Five, released by Epic Records in August 1964. This was the band’s third U.S. album released within six months. See also their first one from March 1964, Glad All Over.
The Gothic caps decorated with stars and stripes are from Norton Dandy. This face – here printed in two colors, red and blue – is part of a pair drawn by S.E. Norton, Norton Dandy & Yankee. In Dandy, the stripes in the bottom half are horizontal. In Yankee, they’re vertical. James Fordyce made a freebie digitization of the latter. His Stars & Stripes (1994) isn’t 100% faithful in all details, cf. C or M.
The band name is set in West Behemoth, a formidable Clarendon drawn by Dave West in 1960. In 2009, Martin Wenzel made a digitization for the reincarnation of Photo-Lettering, Inc., now available from House Industries under the name Plinc Behemoth.
Back cover with liner notes by John Mahan, then Epic’s manager of East Coast promotion, set in Optima, and the track list in right-aligned caps from News Gothic
