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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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I remember that cover. Boy, do I remember that cover. hmmm................................................................................................................................................... uh, what is this thread about anyway? Oh yeah, the whipped cream lady is 76. Not in my dreams she aint.
What you said amigo. I remember a lot of so-called music experts in the sixties wondering what marvelous music awaited us in the future. Little did we know that for the most part, the sixties was the end of the creation of great music. Classic music's best period was the 19th century, pop, jazz, and rock died after the sixties. Some musicians still made a few good records, but we went downhill fast after the sixties. Disco and rap...need I say more?
So do my parents! They played it all the time when they had parties. :-)
Yep.
What I loved about 60s music was how diverse it was. Top 40 might have something from Iron Butterfly followed by Elvis followed by The Monkees followed by Andy Williams followed by Louis Armstrong followed by Paul Mariat followed by Dusty Springfield followed by The Doors, etc.
My parents bought almost every TJB eight-track tape and they looped endlessly in our station wagon. It’s like comfort food to me.
Yep, including my mom. She was (and still is,) drop dead gorgous...and super-nice too. It was weird when men leared at her when we (little) kids were with her...we always gave them dirty, long looks in return. :-) We protected her. ;-)
Misspelled gorgeous. Great thread bump.
I have the album. Good to see she’s still roarin’ ...
I'm trying to buy all the LP's and 45's I'd been collecting since the early 60's in CD format. It's been a challenge but second hand stores help.
No, they didn't. The 1920's had the best looking ladies.
Mason Williams was also a poet. On his radio show, Dr. Demento used to play recordings of him reading his poems such as "Them Sticker Gitters." Some of them are available here.
My personal 1960's top 10 reflects that diversity:
Evil, man. Evil.
I’m amused when radio stations start playing “sixties” music and leave off much of the popular music of the sixties. Sinatra and Martin, country musicians, pop stars, the odd novelty record, as well as the rockers could all have big hits. That’s what was great about that time. Whatever was number one was known by virtually everyone. There’s nothing like that today. Now I couldn’t tell you what the number one song has been for the last twenty years. And the song is probably awful anyway.
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