Oily Rags – Oily Rags album art
Theodore Billards is in use for Cockney-based duo Chas & Dave’s first album, released on Signature Records (which uses Jazzbeau for their logo) in the US, going under the name Oily Rags. Haig Adishian is credited for the album’s design, along with David Redfern for photography.
John Theodore’s Billards was first displayed as four styles in PLINC’s Decotypes, with #6160 as a solid fill, #6161 as an outlined version, #6184 as a solid fill with an outlined southwest-facing shadow, #6185 as a reversed version of #6184, and #6186 completely outlined with southwest-facing shadow.
The back cover typography features ITC Souvenir and what looks like Helvetica.
All five variants of Theodore Billards as shown in PLINC’s One-Line Manual of Styles from 1971
