Svetla Stoeva – “Hayo-Hayo” / “Može bi” single cover
A decade ago to the day on which this contribution is being compiled, the Bulgarian singer Svetla Stoeva passed away at the age of just sixty. So, since this single sleeve happens to date from half-a-century ago, in the same year as a previous contribution by me, about the Zlatniyat Orfey album art, where Davida is also used for the Cyrillic script, today would appear to be a very good opportunity to highlight this artist.
“Хайо–Хайо” (“Hayo-Hayo”) is a Bulgarian-language cover version of the Bee Gees’ “I.O.I.O.”, taken from the film Cucumber Castle. “Може би” (“Može bi”, “Maybe”), however, is an entirely natively-composed song from the pen of Paraškev Hadjiev. The Cyrillic Л is once again a flipped Latin V, while the А on this sleeve is a different glyph from that which appears on the Salena Jones/Mieko Hirota album cover. As in the case of that sleeve the subsidiary text appears in Edel-Grotesk.
This occasion has also been marked with a post at the “Girls of the Golden East” blog.
