Beverly Bremers – “We’re Free” / “Colors of Love” German single cover
Contributed by Jorge Iván Moreno Majul on Jun 9th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Bottleneck in early use for the German release of “We’re Free”, the controversial free love anthem by American singer and actress Beverly Bremers (b. 1950). Wikipedia has her comments on the surprise success of the song:
“We’re Free” was banned on a lot of stations, which sounds hilarious now. Back then a lot of people didn’t like the (idea) of living together without being married. That was the theme of the song and ironically it was a huge country hit. The Bible Belt didn’t care. It never got airplay on the coasts, but it was huge in Canada and in the South and the mid-West. It made the Country charts.
Tony Wenman’s bottom-heavy face can be seen with customized swash initials for the singer’s name – and an enlarged terminal s.
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It looks like the swash initials aren’t based on Bottleneck’s B, but rather on the German eszett glyph (ß). I wonder whether the designer only had a sheet with lowercase letters – for larger sizes, Letraset would split up the glyph set of a given typeface into two sheets – and made the most out of it.