David Carrol and His Orchestra – Dancer’s Delight album art
Dancer’s Delight is an easy listening album recorded by David Carrol and His Orchestra and released with Mercury Records in 1956. Carroll (1913–2008) was a studio arranger and conductor who served as Mercury’s musical director from 1951 to the early 1960s.
His name and the album title are set in caps from Filmotype Wand. The wide slab serif with low contrast was released the year before, in 1955. In 2015, Charles Gibbons made a digital version, adding Cyrillic and Greek characters. Interestingly, “dance album” at the top left uses a related older design which was reissued by Bauer and ATF as Hellenic Wide. Filmotype had an adaptation as “HW”. The names of the instrumental tracks are rendered in caps from Copperplate Gothic Light Extended, a.k.a. CP36.
