The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica album art
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From Wikipedia:
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes is the only album by American girl group the Ronettes (credited to “the Ronettes featuring Veronica”). Produced by Phil Spector and released in November 1964 through his label, Philles Records, the album collects the group’s singles from 1963 to 1964. In 2004, it was ranked number 422 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.
18 Comments on “The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica album art”
Hi Javi,
I’m not sold on the Madison-Antiqua ID. It’s certainly similar, but not quite a match, and also an unlikely choice for this place and time. At the moment, I don’t have a better suggestion, so I added our “uncertain typeface ID” tag.
You identified the bold italic as Caslon. While it has Caslon-esque moments, I’m not aware of a version that is that dramatically inclined, or matches the playful details. In Photo-Lettering’s 1971 catalog, I came across Racine Italic. This could be the face in question, but the sample is too limited to say for sure.
The only thing that’s certain is that the song names are set in all-caps Vogue.
For the “Ronettes”, it looks like it’s from one of these fonts www.flickr.com/photos/28813…
Top notch! Well done, Javi. Yes, I agree that Rodgers looks like a match. Added.
While it’s not impossible that the designer combined typefaces from both Filmotype and Photo-Lettering, it’s more likely that the italic is a style from the Filmotype library as well. And indeed it appears to be Tailor (not Racine Italic), see this one-line sample.
I can make scans and compile samples for these two typefaces, but it can take a little while. Please allow a couple of days.
Happy to report I was able to add samples for Rodgers and Tailor.
Filmotype Tailor was used on the 1968 album An Introduction To German Lieder by Felicia Weathers.
Racine Italic sample appears here
Also, Racine Italic looks like Filmotype Racine but not in italic
Here’s a different between Racine Italic (top) and Filmotype Racine (bottom)
I think you’re onto something. I took another look and found that Racine Italic appears to be a copy of Filmotype Tailor. The folks at PLINC realized that Tailor is an italic counterpart to Racine, and hence went for that name. Now why they carried a copy of the italic but not of the upright – at least not under the name Racine, AFAICT – is beyond me.
I’ve dissolved our page for Racine Italic and rather merged it into Filmotype Tailor (“Racine Italic” is now an alias).
The album Emilio Tuero y las canciones de Gonzalo Curiel used Filmotype Racine.
Filmotype Rodger was also used for the 1964 album The Black Watch by The Band of the Black Watch.
In 1968, Filmotype Tailor was also used in Feelin’ Good At The Cadillac Club by Billy Paul
Here’s the picture
Filmotype Rodgers (with its lowercase) was also used in the 1964 album Constant Desire by Otta Cesana
In 1964 (also), Filmotype Tailor was used in the Songs Made Famous by Joan Baez by Maura and Maria
Filmotype Tailor was also used in the 1963 album He’s So Fine by The Chiffons
In 1969, Filmotype Rodgers was used on the album Anniversary Album by Revivaltime Choir
In 1962, Toasting Derek Smith by Derek Smith used Filmotype Rodgers