The Mamas & The Papas – California Dreamin’ album art
This compilation album with songs by The Mamas & The Papas was released in 1972, three years after the folk rock band broke up. Its cover design is not the most refined one, featuring a collage of mismatched photos of the four members that can be described as haphazard at best.
The title typeface is a rare one, though, which I haven’t seen outside type specimens before. It’s part of the Riverside Drive family, designed by pop artist Peter Max (b. 1937) and named after his address at 118 Riverside Drive in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Issued by Photo-Lettering around 1970, there were six styles, including solid, outlined, and contoured variants. This is the most spectacular one: the decorated Riverside Drive Stars E has letterforms filled with a pattern of stars, plus the occasional ringed planet. It’s here used in reverse.
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