Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – “Emboscada A Matt Helm” / “¿Qué Hará Ella Esta Noche?” single cover
Contributed by Laura Corona on Apr 6th, 2025. Artwork published in
circa 1969
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Cover of a Mexican single record by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart released by the local label Discos Tizzy under license by A&M Records back in 1969.
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Thank you, Laura!
This is the theme song of The Ambushers, the 1967 spy comedy film starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm. The photo by Martin Mills shows the actor surrounded by Susannah Moore, Penny Brahms, Jan Watson, and Alena Johnston.
The Spanish song titles at the bottom don’t seem to be typeset: they rather repurpose glyphs from the lettering made for the movie’s promotion, see the theatrical release poster.
The names of the singers are in Ginger Snap, as you say. The line includes a C that is lacking the inner dot – just like in Spatz, a copy by Tipograph Fotoletras, a photo-lettering supplier from São Paulo. The B and the O are also different from what we’ve seen in previous Uses of Ginger Snap: they have an extra counter. However, these details aren’t found back in the Spatz specimen posted by Fernando Mello. In all three counts, the letterforms on this Mexican sleeve match those on a German single cover from 1970. Maybe there was yet another close follower of Ginger Snap? Or maybe these forms were available as alternates?