Alfred Hitchcock – Ghost Stories for Young People album art
Front cover
From Wikipedia:
In 1962, Golden Records released a record album of six ghost stories for children titled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Ghost Stories for Young People. The album, which opens with the Charles Gounod Alfred Hitchcock Presents theme music, is hosted by Hitchcock himself, who begins, “How do you do, boys and girls. I’m delighted to find that you believe in ghosts, too. After all, they believe in you, so it is only common courtesy to return the favor.”
Hitchcock introduces each of the stories, all the while recounting a droll story of his own failed attempts to deal with a leaky faucet (which at the conclusion of the album leads to Hitchcock “drowning” in his flooded home). The ghost stories themselves, accompanied by minimal sound effects and music, are told by actor John Allen, four of which he wrote himself and two of which are adaptations:
1. “The Haunted and the Haunters (The Pirate’s Curse)”
2. “The Magician ('Til Death Do Us Part)”
3. “Johnny Takes a Dare (The More the Merrier)”
4. Saki's “The Open Window” (special adaptation)
5. “The Helpful Hitchhiker”
6. Walter R. Brooks' “Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons”
The album title combines Photo-Lettering’s Deckel Edge, a design by Davis Pennington which is a textured variant of Pennington’s Slanted Sable, and Kress Interlock, a design by George Kress. Additional text on the front cover appears to be set in Microgramma. The back cover features a lengthy note on ghosts from Alfred Hitchcock set in a rather soft Caslon Antique. The tracklisting pairs Akzidenz-Grotesk (a.k.a. Standard) with Trade Gothic.
Designer/s unknown.
Further album information at Discogs.
Back cover. Compare to this alternate (original?) back cover with no tracklisting and only previews of other Golden Records albums.
Front cover of original 1962 Golden Records issue without Wonderland as second label.
4 Comments on “Alfred Hitchcock – Ghost Stories for Young People album art”
Pennington Deckel Edge reminds me of Filmotype LaSalle.
Agreed – I’ve linked them as being related.
But no sample for Pennington Deckel Edge?
No, we sadly don’t have one. There’s a one-line sample in the 1971 catalog, but it doesn’t spell out the name. Pennington Slanted Sable is a smooth variant which appears to have been digitized as Martini JF in 2004 by Jason Walcott.