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The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica album art

Contributed by [deleted] on Apr 13th, 2024. Artwork published in
November 1964
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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”.

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  • Filmotype Rodgers
  • Filmotype Tailor
  • Vogue

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4 Comments on “The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica album art”

  1. 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.

  2. For the “Ronettes”, it looks like it’s from one of these fonts www.flickr.com/photos/28813…

  3. 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.

  4. Happy to report I was able to add samples for Rodgers and Tailor.

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