Bobby Womack – Fly Me to the Moon album art
Oring Title, a capital alphabet with horizontal contrast, is used with condensed letterforms for the cover of Fly Me to the Moon by Bobby Womack (1944–2014), released in early 1969.
From HHV:
1968’s Fly Me To The Moon was Womack’s first solo long-player, after a decade of forging a singular path as R&B morphed into soul music, first with the Sam Cooke-sponsored Valentinos, and subsequently as a songwriter and guitarist for the likes of Wilson Pickett. Indeed, the album features Womack’s version of Pickett’s “Midnight Mover,” along with very groovy interpretations of “California Dreamin” (a small hit at the time), “Moonlight In Vermont,” and the title cut. But it is the singers own superlative material – “What Is This,” “Somebody Special,” “Take Me” – that shines best on this fantastic debut, produced by the estimable Chips Moman at his American Studios facility in Memphis, utilizing one of the finest session crews in southern soul.
Read more about the origin of Oring Title in a previous post. Song names are set in all-caps Futura with alternating line colors. The cover design with the lunar phases is uncredited.
Reissue by Premium Cool from 2016
