Ireen Sheer – “Goodbye Mama” / “Jemand wartet auf dich” German single cover
Fonts from the Flea Market #1450
“Goodbye Mama” by Ireen Sheer (b. 1949) was a top five hit on the German singles chart. A year later, the German-English singer represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, finishing fourth (the winner that year was ABBA with “Waterloo”).
The single sleeve for Sheer’s 1973 hit shows her in front of Nymphenburg Palace. The Art Nouveau typeface is Fantaisies noires, originally issued by Peignot & Fils in Paris by 1900. Reed in London (and later Stephenson Blake) had the design under the name Macaulay. Ludwig Petzendorfer reproduced a glyph set in his Schriftenatlas, Neue Folge. About seven decades later, Typesetting chain Typeshop made a phototype adaptation using the British name. It was probably this version that was used here.
