Roy Clark – The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark album art
All three weights of Safari, used together on the cover of the debut album by country musician Roy Clark (1933–2018), released in 1962 [Wikipedia] or 1963 [Discogs].
While most of the title is set in the Medium weight of the 1960 release by Headliners, the artist’s name features the Bold – each with condensed letterforms and a couple of interlocking pairs. “The” is added in the Light, stretched to Semi-Wide proportions. The track names are set in condensed capitals from News Gothic.
No designer is credited. The motion blur photography is by George Jerman, a Capitol Records staff photographer who also worked on Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.
This cover of a French EP with four tracks features a cropped version of the photo and reuses the key elements of the typography.
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The typography on this album cover provided PintassilgoPrints with the inspiration for their digital font Sundowners, drawn by Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin and released in 2012.
Safari (Headliners) was used in the 1964 Back Again! by Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart & The New Golden West Cowboys