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- The famous album cover Whipped Cream and Other Delights gets a special look, not at the music so much but the model who posed for the famous cover - Dolores Erickson. Matt goes through the photo shoot that made her famous and catapulted Herb Alpert's career into the stratosphere. Along the way, you will see several other of her album covers and films she appeared in.
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My parents had that album. We used to listen to it on the stereo in our living room in the 60's. Still there today.
Herb told a little story at a concert recently… he said how some guy ran into him and said how much he loved the Whipped Cream album, and Herb asked which song he liked the most and he replied “Oh I haven’t had time to listen to it yet.”
Herb is still doing concerts???
@@James-if3kcYes!
@@James-if3kc Yes, Herb is still doing concerts. Not as the Tijuana Brass , but he still plays some of that stuff.
@@imaprinta That's awesome!!!
@@James-if3kc Yes, he is…with wife Lani Hall and a great band he’s been touring with for about 15 years now. They sell out smaller, and medium sized concert halls and jazz clubs all over the world, including his own fantastic club here in LA. If you get a chance, I’d recommend his show.
I was an on-air talent at an "adult" or easy-listening station in San Antonio TX at that time. When the album arrived and the cuts had been vetted for airplay, it got a LOT of air time as the all-male DJs loved pulling out the album and prepping it up so that they could look at it while it was playing. I still have my copy of it.
Delores now lives in my area. Her and her attorney husband frequent the same restaurant my wife and I do. I have had the pleasure of meeting her, and of course, my dad had that album, which is now in my collection!
My parents had this album and would play it after church if there was nothing good on TV. Years later, I had it on cassette before finally getting it on CD. Still love the music today!
My father wrote Lollipops and Roses, and I am delighted, Matt, that you told the story about the Herb Alpert version being used on the Dating Game. Whenever I tell that story, people alive back then always remember it.
Nice to meet you! Lollipops and Roses is a wonderful song that takes you back! Thanks for sharing, Jess!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks to you, Matt. I have watched most of your videos, particularly as I am a huge Beatles fan, and I have found them fascinating. I look forward to more!
@@user-iy5rk2nq8g Thank you, I appreciate that.
We had that album. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was very popular. You would hear their hits everywhere you went, the mall, grocery store, restaurants, banks.
My story about the cover? I was about 8 and the only girl out of 5 kids when my family got this album. I just remember that my 4 older brothers really, really liked it!
Better question is; who DIDN'T have it at that time!
Ah, the hits, especially "Taste" and "Flamingo" !
This is the exact content TH-cam was created for. Thanks Matt!
Thank you!
Words fail to describe the electrified "wow" of that album -- 1965 -- high school senior.
Elementary school senior... coming of age kid...girls were far more interesting now.
I just happened to grow up in Studio City and two of my best friends had Herb as a neighbor. I was a teenager in 65 and was starting to listen to music from England but still liked Herbs music. Later I had a girlfriend who moved to LA from Cleveland and she and her sister worked at A&M at the old Charlie Chaplin studio on La Brea near Sunset. Time and place is such a factor in how we grow up and what our influences are. Thanks for evoking those memories through music.
I am 70 and one of my first albums. Love it!!
My dad had an original mono copy, he would often play it Saturday mornings and age 5, I would grab a couple of mom’s pots and pans, and in the living room, speakers in front, would drum along with the whole album. Years later as a club DJ I would end sets with “Tangerine”..
Dad’s copy and an amazing sounding Stereo broadcast copy hold a special place in my collection 🎶🏆❤️
Worked for a liquor store back in the 60’s. Made a delivery to Nick Ceroli the drummer. He gave me a copy of this album and signed it. Didn’t even ask for it. Great guy! Died way too young.
As a 15-year-old this album cover grabbed my attention as you might imagine. My dad brought it home. Thanks, Dad!
I had started playing the drums at that time and really enjoyed playing along with it. That was the second-best reason i liked it.
My mom had all those albums. The one she didn’t have was Whipped Cream, and Other Delights. I can remember seeing that album in our local library, and sneaking into the adult section, to sneak a peek of that cover.
I'm 64 and my parents had this album in our big console record player-radio. I love the music and have fond memories. We were living near Corpus Christi Tx. A local tv station had a kids afternoon show named Col. Christopher. The tv show used Taste of Honey the shows theme music.
Thanks, Matt, for the backstory to that album and the GORGEOUS Dolores Erickson. This was the first Tijuana Brass album I bought (in 6th grade), all due to "A Taste of Honey." I think my mom was only milder concerned about the somewhat lascivious cover, because she knew I cared more about the music. I'm amazed to see all those parodies of the cover. Keep up the good work on the 60s.
Thanks for sharing, Wardog!
Dolores Erickson! A lady who has lived in the town where I now live - Longview, Washington. Turns out Ms. Erickson is an accomplished artist who has worked in various media over the years. It was intriguing to discover that she has been in this area for nearly 40 years.
Longview!! I grew up in Othello on the Eastside of the state and remember many trips passing through Longview on our way to Longbeach to visit relatives! Nice town!! Had no idea Dolores used to live there...nice!
My dad had all of his albums and I played them all 1000 times as a kid
For the obvious reasons I was drawn to this album cover... I saw it early on when it came out (within a year) ... I'm 66 and in 1965 I was 7 years old... for some reason at 8 I discovered I really liked girls....A LOT! My career of drawing pin ups can be attributed to seeing this and other images from this time period. From sneaking peeks at the Playboys in my dad's bottom drawer to finding discarded torn out pages in the trash.... I collected as much as I could get away with. Thank you, Herb, great cover!
There is an antique marketplace in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania. One of the stands is a record shop. His entire back wall consists of multiples of this album cover as wallpaper. There must be at least a couple hundred of this album cover on his wall. The stand no longer exists but I was always amazed and winked to myself because I always liked that album cover too.
As a very young Herb Albert fan in 1965, (I was 12), but I figured out a way to buy this album without my folks seeing it. When I started playing it at home, my dad fell in love with it. Then I showed him the cover… he said, “Don’t let your mother see this!” So, at that point I felt I had passed a rite of passage with him. It was our little secret. Loved it!!
Great story, cojax!
I have that album framed on my office wall. Brings back a LOT of memories...
Delightful trip down memory lane!! Thank you!!
My parents had this album when I was growing up in the 60's. I'm still waiting for that whip cream to melt ;)
My uncle who was ten years older than I, spent a couple summers from college in the late ‘60’s with my family. He had so many albums that I still remember. But for a ten year old boy, none more memorable than Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream.
My Dad bought this album in 1965. My Mom asked who was the cover girl and he said maybe its Herb's GF or wife...I have used this recording in my listening tests as an audio engineer and even today it is a file on my digital streamer. Herb Alpert is a legend and still a powerhouse in his 80s today.
Omg my father had this album he really liked Herb Alpert. The cover is so iconic! Just seeing it in this post drew me into watch this clip 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks for the great memories
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass was an extremely tight, well produced and cleanly recorded band. And the back story of the cover model, Dolores Erickson? Fabulous research and details Matt. And all those album covers? Wow. The A&M Record Label is legendary too. Thanks Matt, Thumbs Up~!
I was blown away by the DEPTH you went into on Dolores! Never realized she had been on so many LP jackets. But you never told us what her hubby thought about it !
I didn't have any "response" to share from the husband. I think they divorced about six years later. Thanks for watching, Bill!
I have a copy that I got from my dad also. I had to buy it on CD when it came out as I always loved Herb Alpert. Thank you for the blast from the past.
It was a listening staple in my house in the mid/late 60's. A babysitter, who happened to be a roller skate dance champ, complete with the ideal athletic figure, used to dance around the living room to it. Good times!
Yup, my parents had it. As a toddler, I loved Herb Alpert, he could talk to the animals!
There is at least one copy of this in every Goodwill in America.
In between the Mantovoni albums.
True 👍
YES!!!!
I found a copy of this at a charity book sale a few weeks ago.
@@orlandopockets6372 🤣
An album I always ran into at thrift shops for decades. I never paid attention to the details in the photo because of how quickly I was thumbing through inventories. I just thought it was a woman wearing a big white dress. Later I would make the great "discovery". 😍
The Herb Alpert song, Spanish flea was used in so many television commercials, and on the dating game and other game shows. It probably garnered Herb Alpert the most money. I remember a sofa commercial that used Spanish flea in the background.
Tijuana Taxi was also used for commercials during that "Mad Man era". Clark's Teabury gum (both company and gum our long gone) used that song. I remember a bit of the commercial had some guy in a suit and fedora dancing to the tune while chewing the gum. I guess the message of the commercial was Teabury gum gives you pep.
My folks had this album, me and my brothers fantasied about this gorgeous gal a lot !
I've got all of Alpert's lps of the 60s and 70s. Really good stuff. I've read a lot about this iconic cover.
@orlandopockets6372 I got 45 rpms also. Mono has a different sound. I've been collecting all my life, and have hundreds and hundreds of both 33s and 45s.
Wow! We would never have known these things if you had`nt told us. Thank you.
OMG...when I was a kid in the early 70's my parents had this record, and whenever they were not around...I would sneak a peek! I own it now on both vinyl and CD...just a GREAT record that really encapsulates that time period perfectly! It took me almost 20 years to figure out that she was mostly covered in Cotton Batten, haa...
Same, as a young boy in the 70s, I came for my parents' LP and it's cover, but stayed for the music. One of the things that led me to pick up the trumpet and play it throughout most of middle and high school.
@@Agg1E91 Ahh nice....yeah Herb Alpert is an incredible player no doubt! Even though he is overshadowed by the lovely lady on that cover! I too played Trumpet from 4th grade into High School, loved it! But then in 11th grade I decided it was a better move career-wise to dropout of band and hangout with my burnout friends in the parking lot instead. Duh, I wish I could get a re-do on that one haha..thx!
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081My HS had a need for trumpet players to play french horn. I jumped because it meant 4 yrs of varsity. I did both (trumpet in HS jazz band) until Sr year. Had to drop the trumpet to focus on the FH. Plus I had discovered Apple //es at my HS and never looked back. Made the switch to a tech career upon arriving at college.
Great video, Matt! This one was an unexpected treat. I always enjoyed Herb’s music. My dad had South of the Border & played it a lot. When I heard “Whipped Cream”, later on, I enjoyed it just as much. Interesting to see how many covers Delores graced, such a beauty!
I remember seeing a huuuuuge blow-up of this album cover at Tower Records on Sunset, I believe! Thanks for the video!
My parents had the Whipped Cream and other Delights album. As a kid, I loved to look at Dolores Erickson. I now have my parents' album. An iconic album cover and great music. Thanks Matt.
Wonderful presentation!!! Thanks for posting!! Big Herb Alpert fan here! Not to mention,,, a huge Carpenters fan!!! As a 12 / 13 year old living outside Chicago, I bought 'Going Places', and in 1968 living in Milwaukee, 'Beat of the Brass'!! 👍🍻🎶. I love all those Tijuana Brass records, and have owned, 'Whipped Cream.. ' on vinyl for several years!
Hello Spyder, from a fellow Milwaukean, thank you for the comments! I have most of Alpert's 60s albums, so maybe I'll do a video on him someday.
A decade or so ago Dolores came up to Golden Oldies Records in Seattle a couple times for a fan 'meet n greet' and to sign albums. I was there one day and it was cool to see her. It was clear why she was a popular model. Meanwhile the album is a great listen. Like Shilo, Green Tambourine, or Incense & Peppermints -- its ubiquitous to most kids and teens from the 60's. And as the old saying goes... it was the first #1 pop album in America that both dad and son could enjoy together.
I never thought about the 'dad and son' angle!
I think just about everyone had that album. I remember it too.
I can see soundtracks were always a way to push sales. I grew up in the 60s and my mum always had the radio on and Herb's music was a constant presence. Great video.
Thank you for the comment!
My dad had this in his collection. I remember it vividly! Thanks for featuring it. 😎
wow! bravo, matt!!! this one shows your fascination for lp covers!!!
I always appreciated this album when I was a kid.
Well Matt, what can be said? This album cover holds the Guinness World Record for most often spotted L.P.`s at garage sales. It is supposed to have sold 6 million copies but judging from my experiences of 40 years of garage sales, I would estimate it at 60 million.
As a teenager, I used to buy albums because of the covers. This one however ws purchased by my Dad. It was an instant hit with my 12-year-old self, and I actually liked the music also!
You have the biggest colleciton of Whipped Cream and Other delights of any music aficionado in the Western Hemisphere. Congrats.
Dolores Erickson forever.
Great topic for a video. I was not expecting you to be review a Herb Alpert LP, but I am so glad you did. I have quite a collection of Herb LPs and EPs (7 inch records with 4 tracks instead of 2) so I am a fan of his music. I love the focus being on the model and the cover rather than the music. I certainly didn't know Dolores was such a prolific cover girl! Thanks Matt!
Whipped Cream was everywhere at flea markets at one time. Every record seller seemed to have at least one of them. I didn't know there was story behind it of sorts. I like the Tijuana Brass, but I can see why they found their way into flea markets en masse. It's one of those easy records to lighten your load when moving house. It doesn't give you the same attachment as vocal recordings. As for Delores Erickson, I didn't know about her either. A fun one Matt and with some interesting 1960s trivia!
Whenever I went to a relatives house I would make a beeline to the living room which usually contained one of those console stereos so popular with young married couples back in the 60's. I would love looking over whatever records people would have. My older brother and his wife had a copy of this, amongst very few lps including their only Beatle album, Something New. Loved this video Matt, and as Bob Hope would sing, "Thanks for the Memories!😊
Thank you, Rick!
Most unforgettable album cover ever for me! Yeah my dad bought this ..I think I was 10 so it was awakening of a sort! I did like some of the tunes..which was apparently another “Wrecking Crew”performance on the charts. Taste of Honey and Lonely Bull…nice😁
Great topic and very interesting. Enjoyed all the album covers shown especially the one owned by your dad. I remember this album in my parents record collection and found myself always staring at it while the album played. I was 6-7 years old and it just drew my attention while enjoying the music, and I believe I would still look at it when the music wasn’t playing. Anywho its still a favorite with a few copies in my collection and enjoyed to this day. A fantastic informative vid and be well.
Thank you George!
I'm 61 and my parents had a large vinyl collection. They liked Herb Alpert. They had an album of the Baja Marimba Band featuring him. Rather interesting cover that was a painting of various characters including a blonde lady with a large green snake strategically wrapped around her regions. 😊 I'll have to check and see if they had this album. Thanks for a fun and informative video, I'm sure many including myself were curious about the model. 💚🌼
The cover of this album was very much in my focus even at seven years old, or whenever my father got it. And speaking of Dyan Cannon, as you did, on leave in Seattle from the Navy base in Kodiak, my father and a friend went on a double-date, probably around 1954, with two girls they met. The girl my father did not choose was Dyan.
ME TOO! talk about staring😅
Wow, to have the opportunity to NOT be the partner on a double date with her is impressive!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Great story, huh?
Interesting video Matt! As I recall, during the late 1950's and well into the 60's, there were quite a few records by various artists in the adult contemporary and jazz genres that used pictures of alluring women on their album covers. I bet there were quite a few of those albums which were bought but never listened to, LOL! The Herb Alpert, Whipped Cream album was bought because of the music, the cover photo was a like a bonus. It was good marketing because those albums definitely caught the eye!
A great look at an iconic cover!
My dad had the 8track and played it in our boat constantly. This music always brings me back to those days on the boat. Great memories
Putting the Pop in Pop Goes The 60s! Perfect topic, Matt! The decade was as much about Pop culture as it was about the music.
My father had a copy, as I'm sure almost everyone's dad did. Born in '61, I can recall being captivated by this cover, though being too young to understand much more than what was in front of my eyes, my thoughts were more of 'what a lot of whipped cream!'. I do remember listening to this album many times and it's still a sentimental favourite 60 years later. For Adult Contemporary fluff, the songs are generally quite strong. As my father never allowed Rock into the house (except when mum would sneak us albums - Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, More Of The Monkees), this was my first exposure to A Taste Of Honey so I recall being surprised hearing The Beatles' version.
Yes, the pop culture aspect of the 60s is personified in this single album cover!
Great detour, Matt. Interesting subject, enjoyable listen (I listen while driving) and very sixties.
I loved the song “A taste of honey” as a kid.
I had the parody album by the Frivolous Five "Sour Cream and Other Delights." Great album cover!
This album has always been in my collection. Though I never listen to it, it's always been a "must own" 😍
I was in kindergarten when when A Taste Of Honey was big on the radio, and my Mom bought it for us. I use to sit and stare at it, trying to psychically see behind the whipped cream. Plus I very much enjoyed the album.
As far as album sales with Delores' photo on the jacket, "Sold Out" by the Kingston Trio has to be way, way up there!
Big fan of Herb Alpert-still have my copy! Thank you for the video!
I remember very well that album cover. My mom played it all the time when I was a little one. I always found the cover so fascinating when I was a kid. I'm surprised to see she's still alive at 87 years old! I had no idea she did so many other album covers. As for the Whipped Cream album, the music is pretty darn good too!
Quite a while back, I was on FB reading a thread about this album in one of the vinyl collectors groups. The general consensus was that EVERYONE had this in their collection. Sure enough, a few months later I was flipping through my own collection and there it was!! I know I never bought it, so no idea where it came from. I think it just appears out of thin air, or literally grows between other albums LOL! Great episode.
LOL, too funny!
My dad was a huge fan of the Tijuana Brass. He had this album and all of the others and had transferred them to his ROBERTS reel to reel tape library
My dad who recently passed, has this album. It's now in my possession.
A family heirloom!
A&M knew how to press a good sounding record. All my Herb Albert records are audiophile quality and have great masterings.
Far and away the best album cover in my parents' collection. I stared long and hard at this for many hours as a kid...and a little later. Great video!
Thanks Steve! It is a bonafide classic!
I learned so much from your video. Thanks for this.
Great episode Matt. My grandparents had this and a lot of other Herb Albert records in one of those early 1960s wood console stereo hi fi sets. They would have been in their mid 40s when this album came out in 1965.
Growing up in the '60s, this music was in every house in our neighborhood, In Nor Cal. 6 years old, dressing up in halloween costumes in July running around the living room to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Fast forward to 1981, I'm a 20 year old making a mixtape with Dead Kennedys, Elvis, Strangles, Animals, and A taste of Honey was first song, side 2. (Hit the road Jack was side 1) Almost every mixtape I made in the 80s had a song off of Whipped Cream. Later, as a father myself I always played the CD in the house when making Tacos, just to pass it on to my kids. Now my daughter plays it on Spotify when making tacos. The circle of life ...Whipped Cream and other delights......
Thanks for the info about one of my favorite album covers, interesting to learn about the model and the many parody covers. I have this album.
My parents had it too, the picture was memorable.
What a cool episode!
I loved herb Alpert’s music. Saw a recent bio and he’s still creative and happily married.
TIL There Was You was from the Music Man. A Taste of Honey wasn’t even written until after the Rita Tushingham-Tony Richardson movie came out. The Ann Francis Honey West show featured it and got it rolling.
Thanks for that correction, Dale.
According to Wikipedia: ""A Taste of Honey" is a pop standard written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow. It was originally an instrumental track (or recurring theme) written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play A Taste of Honey which was also made into the film of the same name in 1961."
@@richardcleveland1763 Thanks. I know it was played by The Beatles in Hamburg in 1962.
"A Taste Of Honey" was on the Beatles' "Please Please Me" album, which was released in England in early 1963. It was also on Barbra Streisand's debut recording "The Barbra Streisand Album", which came out around the same time. The Beatles' version was released in America on "Introducing The Beatles" in January 1964. But apparently the first vocal version of the song was recorded in 1961 by Billy Dee Williams (yes, *that* Billy Dee Williams!) There were several other instrumental versions of it recorded before Herb Alpert had a big hit with it in 1965.
I can't find any evidence that the song was ever featured on the "Honey West" TV series though. I used to watch that show and I don't recall ever hearing it there.
I had a roommate in 1969 who had this album. He always kept it on top of the stack and visitors went right to it and had their own story. He also had a poster of a bikini clad model with markings all over as if she was a side of beef. It was very popular. Maybe you have seen it.
My boss from work bought me a few Herb Alpert albums and this happens to be one of them. My mom and dad got me into him in the 70s. The first album I heard from him was Rise in 1979. I love his music. ❤
Great video for a great album!
I bought my first copy around 1987 - bought another two over the years, then stopped myself right there. Used to be quite common in opshops, not so much now. The hipsters are onto it!
One cool pastiche i did buy was Dave Lewis Plays (HA&TTB) Its on the Australian W&G label, licenced from Jerden Records. The trio features Lewis (organ), Joe Johanson (guitars) & Dean Hodges (drums)
The sleeve image features a smiling (and clothed) Lewis with a dollop of cream on top of his head.
Boy do I remember that album.... Love me some Herb..... ThanX Matt....
I have this album! The price sticker is still on it - $2.22. I never got rid of it.
This is a great channel! My story of first hearing this LP is from the 1960’s and hearing this many times while riding in my grandfather’s Lincoln Continental. This 8-track tape was part of his collection of tapes kept in an “Alligator” tape box he always carried in his car. These “state of the art” 8-track tapes were constantly being played while riding back and fort to Myrtle Beach, SC with my beloved grandfather “Papa” D.W. Soles. He had this tape and many others including tapes of Dionne Warwick(who I recently saw perform) and similar artists of the era. He also loved to listen to The Beatles with me. All these years later, I miss him but I share all of this great music with my grandchildren now. Part of Papa’s legacy…a love of music.
Thank you for sharing, Buddy. My grandfather also had an 8-track player in his 1973 Buick which I thought was the height of luxury!
my parents had the album and as a kid i really noticed the cover. it was pretty cool
At 6 or 7 years old in the mid seventies I was in the record store and I saw this album cover……..my life was never the same!
My mom had that album, she really liked Herb Albert. I think that's why she bought me a brand new Bundy trumpet when I was in 3rd grade.😂😂😂
I still have that album. I’ll have to dig it out to see which colors are on it………and play it of course.
I enjoyed this video so much!
Still great I was like 7-years old. True about Elvis. Back in those days, you had to be good, great!
I read somewhere that Gino Vanelli and his brother approached Herb Alpert as he was going into his office and he was kind enough to listen. He's a nice person.
If you find a copy without the whip cream, I'd be interested.
LOL, love your humor!
This is an excellent video. Great Job!
The joke when digging in used record bins back in the day was you would always find a copy of Whipped Cream and Frampton Comes Alive! Thanks for another great informative video! Of course I was very enthralled with the cover as a young lad!
Very cool video! Excellent subject