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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Then we'd all just continue on our way.... ;-)
I miss those days...can't ever get them back. :-(
Another thing in looking back that was funny, is that other pretty moms, when no one else could here, would ask us kids: “So tell me, how old is your mom?”. I tell ya, certain moms would never give up, and we’d never give in. Every once in a while when I’d get sick of their sleazy little envy game I’d say: “I’m pretty sure she’s younger than you.”. ;-)
Ugh. Here=hear. I saw that I had written her and for some stupid reason put an e on it in misreading my sentence.
When I was going to Whittier High School, one of the students owned a large French-built car from the 1920's and always drove it to school. He said that the Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass contacted him about buying the car, apparently to use as their Tijuana Taxi. However, he turned them down, as he did several other offers.
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