Bill Harvey

Though he had not been a musician rather than closely associated with saving music in the studio or the direction of artists’ music careers, Bill Harvey made notable contributions towards the music business as the art director of Elektra Records. Elektra was most likely the most respected indie folk and (beginning in the middle-’60s) rock and roll label during most of the time Harvey proved helpful for the business, between your early ’50s and the first ’70s. A big component of its popularity was because of the quality of its display, of which the look, picture taking, and lettering in the LP sleeves had been essential. Harvey (occasionally defined as William Harvey on sleeve credits) was instrumental towards the high, exclusive specifications Elektra occur those relation. Elektra releases could possibly be determined by their lettering and logos by many enthusiasts also before they noticed the label’s name, and Harvey was to a big degree in charge of that. Harvey do his initial Elektra cover for Hally Wood’s obscure 1953 10″ LP O Lovely Appearance of Loss of life. By the specifications of your day, when the LP itself was still a fairly new idea, Harvey’s artwork was significantly above typical for record sleeves. The script he utilized to create the lettering of “Elektra” on that Timber LP would continue being applied to the label’s produces for about ten years. This was commensurate with the idea Jac Holzman was developing of making sure constant, quality trademarks to Elektra’s images within his objective to task a recognizable label identification to the general public. Actually, Holzman got upset with Harvey for carrying out work for another label soon afterward, and solved the issue in a reasonable way to everyone’s fulfillment by employing Harvey as an Elektra worker. Among Harvey’s mentioned achievements had been the look of your guitar participant that was utilized as Elektra’s logo design through the middle-’60s, the butterfly logo design that changed it, the logo design for Elektra’s non-esuch imprint, as well as the unique lettering that was utilized for Love’s music group name on all their releases (as well as for the music group generally). He also got the idea for the popular cover from the Doorways’ second recording, Strange Days, using its midgets and circus numbers. Whether or not the photos or the artwork on Elektra’s sleeves had been Harvey’s, these were always offered taste, frequently boasting striking pictures, like the Doorways on the 1st recording, Tim Buckley’s Goodbye and Hello using the bottlecap in his vision, Fred Neil standing up in the part of Bleecker and MacDougal, and Like posed around a mystical stone structure on the 1st album. Harvey passed away in the first ’90s.