Posted on 08/17/2012 11:29:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
The Whipped Cream Lady who is the model on the memorable LP cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" is 76 now and living in Longview. Dolores Erickson wants to tell all you teen dreamers, "Enjoy the memories."
...The record spent 141 weeks on Billboard's Top 40 albums chart.
In later years, at concerts, Alpert would tell audiences, "Sorry, but I can't play the cover for you."
...Erickson drove up here to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Golden Oldies, the used-record store in Wallingford. A steady stream of fans stopped by, including, surprisingly, women.
...In 1965, she got a call to fly to Los Angeles for a photo shoot for A & M, a new label started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. The photographer was Peter Whorf, with whom she had done other covers.
Payment would be around $1,500 ($11,000 in today's dollars), plus expenses.
The shoot began midmorning and lasted through the afternoon. Erickson put on a bikini, but with the straps down.
She was 29 and three months pregnant. "But I wasn't showing," she says.
Erickson sat on a stool and from the waist down, Whorf placed on her a white Christmas tree blanket.
Then shaving cream was sprayed on Erickson. Under the bright lights, whipping cream would melt, although it was real whipping on top of her head.
The shoot kept going, Erickson remembers, and she didn't notice that the shaving cream kept slipping down.
Months later, Whorf mailed her two outtakes.
"He sent them to shock me. And it did shock me. I screamed," says Erickson. "I was a Christian girl."
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"Mas que Nada" is sometimes translated as "More Than Nothing." Neither of the ladies singing it know Portugese, according to the lore. They memorized the words phonetically.
I loved Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 as a fifth grader and I love them today. Not all their songs are that good; the ones that made it to radio airplay are pretty much the best.
If you like music of that era, something else you might check into is Mason Williams, composer/performer of Classical Gas. He was also a comedy writer; I believe he was the head writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Very, very talented guy. There are a number of YouTube videos of him playing in different venues.
That’s just wrong, but funny
I rediscovered vinyl about 10 years ago. I had kept most of my old stuff and added to it from bulk purchases at estate and garage sales. I now have several thousand, not counting the junk I threw in dumpsters. I have less than $200 invested. The Herb Alpert stuff is still some of my favorite. I can’t explain it. I guess it’s what I learned to love even before rock. As an amateur studio recorder myself now, I love to listen to the different production styles in the music. They were all top notch musicians, too.
I listen to his stuff for the same pleasure a guy gets out of driving a fully restored, but very old auto. It’s not for the handling...
She has kept herself very trim as well
Well, not so much. He was an alcoholic who split before I turned three.
I inherited my father's, not my mother's, looks. :(
Not all their songs are that good; the ones that made it to radio airplay are pretty much the best.
Yep. I got a lot of their stuff in my “estate saling” and some of their music is awful, but some is really catchy.
Then again, art is subjective.
One of the finest albums ever made!
I remember that too well.
I am much younger than that tho. : ) My older brother used to play the reel to reel of that album and 2001: A space odyssey at full volume. Well at least when my Mom wasn’t at home.
I still have that album on LP.
Man I was just 7 years old at the time...my parents were probably groovin to that tune back in the day.
HaHaHaHa!!! That’s FUNNY!!!
The best, IMHO:
I may be forgetting one.
I didn’t realize for years that “Fool on the Hill” was a Beatles’ song.
There was a record inside? I never looked.
Same here.
I remember back then American Airlines used to sell Reel To Reels of their Airplane Programs of music, my Dad had bought the A&M sampler, and that is pretty much how I discovered all of that stuff, Brasil ‘66, Wes Montgomery, Tom Jobim (”Wave”). I played that almost every day.
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