Sam & Dave “I Thank You” vinyl record sleeve

This is a vinyl record sleeve that contains a vinyl record featuring the Sam & Dave song “I Thank You,” which was written by Issac Hayes and David Porter and sung by American soul singers Sam Moore and Dave Prater, who were performing together as a singer duo from 1961 to 1981. In addition to featuring the song “I Thank You,” the vinyl record in this sleeve also includes the 11 other songs that are part of Sam & Dave's “I Thank You” album, including “These Arms of Mine,” “Wrap It Up,” “Love Is After Me,” and “That Lucky Old Sun.”

This record, along with its sleeve, was released in 1968 by Atlantic Records, and the sleeve that contains the record was designed by Haig Adishian, who used to make artwork and designs for various music album covers that were released by various companies. Also, the photo of Sam & Dave on the front of this cover was photographed by Jim Cummins, who was an award-winning American photographer that shot photos for covers of music albums that featured music from many musical artists of the era that Sam & Dave performed in, including Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, The Temptations, and many more.

The back of this record sleeve includes paragraphs of information about Sam and Dave being a singer duo, and it also shows a list of the names of all the songs that are included in this record, which make up the entirety of Sam and Dave's “I Thank You” album. The first six songs of the album are on one side of the record, and the last six songs of the album are on the other side of the record.

What made this vinyl record sleeve stand out to me as a graphic design piece is the typography that is used for the title on the front of it. The typography that is being used for the title of this music album appears to have a geometric but slightly psychedelic feel, and some compositions of typography and lettering with styles like the one of the typeface used for the title on this album cover showed various ways of how wacky typography and lettering had been for certain graphic design pieces that were made in the 1960s.