Streisand and Kristofferson – A Star is Born soundtrack
Contributed by Stephen Coles
on Jan 8th, 2015. Artwork published in
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Photo by Francesco Scavullo. Album © CBS Records. License: All Rights Reserved.
What a cover. Could it be any more soft ’70s? The shadow on the title type is regrettable.
For an alternative Simplex peformance from the 1970s: Deep Purple.
2 Comments on “Streisand and Kristofferson – A Star is Born soundtrack”
I’ve been wondering where this variant of Simplex with the alternate A and D glyphs came from. Apart from this album cover, I’ve also seen this type on the film itself, the opening credits for the first two seasons of Knots Landing, and the movie Resurrection (1980). Aside from the differences mentioned before, the typography in those titles also feature a normal looking T glyph.
I haven’t yet found a phototype supplier that offered these alternates, but that’s possible. It’s also possible that the designer of this cover and the titles simply redrew the letters so they would be more conventional.