Whipped Cream and Other Delights....

**johnniegold** · 02-17-2008, 06:23 PM

Whenever someone mentions this album/album cover around here many members chime in about this now legendary cover. So...

The girl on the cover is Delores Erickson. She was 3 months pregnant when that photo was taken.

I was 3 years old in 1965 when the album was released. But growing up I certainly remember that unforgettable cover. This image has become a piece of Americana. The follow-up cover didn't even come close to the original. The last photo is Delores Erickson in 2005.

**Jack Orion** · 02-17-2008, 07:10 PM

I was 14 in 1965, and that album cover is indelibly imprinted on my neurons.

Cover art: Just another reason CDs, as convenient as they are, can't hold a candle to the long playing 33 1/3 rpm.

**iron maiden** · 02-17-2008, 07:35 PM

I can remember my older brother's album cover with many fond memories.

**rtaylor61** · 02-17-2008, 09:10 PM

I was 4, but I am a Herb Alpert fan. I had the 8-Track, Cassette, Album, and guess it's time to get the CD!

Randy

**LukeInFlames** · 02-18-2008, 08:19 AM

hey, i own that too! and hell, my parents were, oh, 10 yrs old when that came out! fantastic period design + fun music.

trust something like this to be unearthed here...

-L.

**bman40** · 02-18-2008, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Orion

I was 14 in 1965, and that album cover is indelibly imprinted on my neurons.

Cover art: Just another reason CDs, as convenient as they are, can't hold a candle to the long playing 33 1/3 rpm.

* I bought my 16-year old son an old Pioneer stereo and a Sony turntable (gotta love craigslist) for $75 this christmas. We then answered an ad on craigslist from a crazy nutball record collector (really nice but sorta scary0 who has like 10,000 records! We bought my kid an original Pink Floyd Dark Side fo the Moon, a Doors album, the who, and a couple others.... he has also been granted access to my old album collection which has been gathering dust for years.... getting him set up made me start to play albums again, and I agree that CD cases just don't cut it...

Barry

**bman40** · 02-18-2008, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by LukeInFlames

hey, i own that too! and hell, my parents were, oh, 10 yrs old when that came out! fantastic period design + fun music.

trust something like this to be unearthed here...

-L.

YIKEs - Luke, that woudl make me old enough to be your Dad!

scary

**Straight Arrow** · 02-18-2008, 01:41 PM

Great cover shot and a pretty good record too. Representative of a genre of music that is light-hearted, fun, and funny.

**ouch** · 02-18-2008, 01:48 PM

I vote for the girl in the follow up cover.

**TorzJohnson** · 02-18-2008, 02:19 PM

It's so iconic, there's even a parody of it:

**johnniegold** · 02-18-2008, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by LukeInFlames

and hell, my parents were, oh, 10 yrs old when that came out!
-L.

Originally Posted by bman40

YIKEs - Luke, that woudl make me old enough to be your Dad!

scary

Luke all I can say about that is... Um, go to your room. You're grounded.

**sol92258** · 02-18-2008, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by ouch

I vote for the girl in the follow up cover.

+1 - twice

**mulepackin** · 02-18-2008, 07:46 PM

I too was 3 y/o when this came out. Still was old enough to remember it very well. Liked it and Herb's music so much I played the trumpet in school band. Don't think it got me very far though

**masonjarjar** · 02-18-2008, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by TorzJohnson

It's so iconic, there's even a parody of it:

Man, Soul Asylum were fantastic in that era..

**Joe Eckman** · 02-18-2008, 08:58 PM

I was 12 when this album came out. I played trombone in Jr. High band. We played some Herb Albert stuff. "Going Places" was my favorite Herb Albert album, but "Whipped Cream ..." was my favorite album cover.

**Mr. Gillette** · 02-19-2008, 10:05 AM

I had the album...was about 8-9 at the time, just starting to play the euphonium--- my mom took the album, BURNED the cover, and put it in something like "101 Strings Play Strauss Waltzes" with the "Whipped Cream" title written in magic marker over the picture on the front. She was VERY repressed...maybe she'd never seen a naked woman in whipped cream before?

Same deal with my subscription in High School to Popular Photography. She would get them from the mailbox and "edit" them with scissors.

What fun!

Thanks for listening. Shall we get together again next week? Thanks!

**johnniegold** · 02-19-2008, 11:25 AM

That's my mother on the phone. I'll put her on speaker.

(P.S This is not Kyle)

**LukeInFlames** · 02-19-2008, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by johnniegold

Luke all I can say about that is... Um, go to your room. You're grounded.

Beware the Ancients! I used to say 'don't trust anyone over 30' but now that i'm getting close, the phrase just seems faintly ludicrous.

This reminds me that I need my record player shipped from storage...

-L.

**Pretzellogic** · 02-20-2008, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by TorzJohnson

It's so iconic, there's even a parody of it:

And another:

and yet another:

**jazzman** · 02-21-2008, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Orion

I was 14 in 1965, and that album cover is indelibly imprinted on my neurons.

Cover art: Just another reason CDs, as convenient as they are, can't hold a candle to the long playing 33 1/3 rpm.

There's an entire generation (one and a half generations?) that has no concept of how wonderful album covers are. Try staring at the CD booklet while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. Or maybe the tiny picture on your iPod. What a loss