Johnny Williams and His Orchestra – Rhythm In Motion album art
Rhythm In Motion is a 1961 album from Johnny Williams and His Orchestra. Johnny Williams would later become far better known as John Williams, composer of film scores for Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others, as well as the Music Director of the Boston Pops from 1980 to 1993.
The front cover features the title and artist name set in all-caps Eurostile Bold [or rather Microgramma Bold, see comments], quite large, with some smaller text – “and His Orchestra” and song titles – in Old Gothic Bold Italic. On the back cover, the the itle and artist name are in Univers and the track titles in News Gothic Bold. The liner notes by Jim Harbert are set in Akzidenz-Grotesk. Cover photo by Scott Hyde.
Back cover
The vinyl LP with some of the original sheet music (Courtesy of JoAnn Kane Music Service on Instagram)
2 Comments on “Johnny Williams and His Orchestra – Rhythm In Motion album art”
Eurostile apparently wasn’t released until 1962, so this cover must be using Microgramma instead, right?
Good point, Bryson. Patrick found an announcement of a Microgramma with lowercase (i.e. Eurostile) from October 1961. But that includes only two extended styles. The regular-wide bold followed in 1964, according to type historian Hans Reichardt. The 1961 date for the album seems to be correct. I’ve tagged Microgramma.