Willkommen in Mannheim zur Bundesgartenschau 1975 album art
Tabasco Bold with some of its extending alternates, on the cover of an album released on the occasion of the Bundesgartenschau 1975 – Germany’s biennial federal horticultural show – in Mannheim.
Local musicologist Klaus Hiltscher a.k.a. Affendaddy, the Rock’n’Roll Accountant, comments (translated from the German):
Just discovered in my archive. An unfortunate LP. In 1975, a year in which every young person in Mannheim between 10 and 39 had completely different interests than choirs, folk music and marches, such an LP was released. I had this LP in my record department at Musikhaus Pfeifer for a year and nobody, absolutely nobody, was interested in it. Okay, we were a rock & pop store, but we also sold Joy Fleming, Die Hemshof Friedel, and Joana, but this LP was totally out of place. Not the slightest touch of 1975 modernism. Probably sponsored by the Mannheimer Morgen!
The Hunter from Kurpfalz as drawn by comedian Loriot served as the mascot for the Bundesgartenschau.
Designed by John N. Schaedler and originally issued for phototypesetting, two weights of Tabasco were added to the Letraset range in 1974, and consequently saw wider dissemination.
The back cover with the city’s marketing copy in three languages is set in Univers.
