Nancy Sinatra – Boots album art
Front cover
Boots is the debut studio album by Nancy Sinatra (b. 1940), released by Reprise Records on March 15, 1966. Arranged and conducted by Billy Strange, the album was produced by Lee Hazlewood. It includes cover versions of songs by Bob Dylan (“It Ain’t Me Babe”), The Beatles (“Day Tripper”, “Run for Your Life”), The Rolling Stones (“As Tears Go By”), and others, alongside three songs written by Hazlewood, including “So Long, Babe” and the smash hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”.
For the cover typography, art director Ed Thrasher chose Cooper Black. First released in 1922, the chubby face was far from a mid-life crisis at 44. In fact, it had quite a moment in 1966: in addition to this album, Cooper Black also appeared on records by The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, and Frank Zappa’s The Mothers of Invention.
On the back cover, Thrasher’s black-and-white photography and Walter Haettenschweiler’s Schmalfette Grotesk make for a supercool 1960s look.
Back cover
Stereo release
