{"id":313288,"date":"2022-11-03T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/?p=313288"},"modified":"2022-10-16T20:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:45:27","slug":"the-real-story-behind-herb-alperts-iconic-whipped-cream-other-delights-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/2022\/11\/03\/the-real-story-behind-herb-alperts-iconic-whipped-cream-other-delights-album-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind Herb Alpert\u2019s Iconic \u2018Whipped Cream & Other Delights\u2019 Album Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Herb Alpert remembers it, he was in a recording studio one day in 1965 when the art director for A&M, the label Alpert co-owned, showed him the photograph that would soon grace one of the most memorable LP covers of all time. \u201cMy first reaction was, \u2018Holy shit, man. Too racy,\u2019\u201d<\/em> Alpert says. \u201cObviously now it would hardly register, but at the time I thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s a little much.\u2019 And I didn\u2019t know, quite frankly, whether it reflected the album \u2014 the music I was doing at the time. But we decided to go with it. That was obviously fortuitous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The final album cover design and chosen shot. The hero image above is one of the outtakes that doesn’t have quite the same sex appeal, and happens to show a little too much of Ms. Erickson’s nipple for the times.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was, because the LP in question, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, attributed to Herb Alpert\u2019s Tijuana Brass, was his breakout album, and the photo in question was the now iconic shot of a seemingly nude, doe-eyed young woman sunk up to her d\u00e9colletage in what appears to be a giant pile of the titular dessert topping. Looking askance at the camera, she touches a long, cream-tipped finger to her lips. On her head is an added dollop of white, evoking, maybe, one of Billie Holiday\u2019s signature gardenias. In her left hand she absently holds a long red rose, perhaps a sop to notions of traditional romance, or maybe an unneeded effort by the photographer to add color and more visual interest.<\/p>\n

From a straight male point of view, and perhaps from others\u2019, this was the sexiest album cover of the 1960s, as many then-adolescent boys can to this day vividly recall. Whether or not it accurately reflected Alpert\u2019s gently swinging, mariachi-inflected instrumentals, the photo surely help propel Whipped Cream & Other Delights, released in 1965, into the number-one slot on Billboard\u2019s list of top-selling LPs for 1966, beating out The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, Lou Rawls, and Barbra Streisand. This triumph wasn\u2019t a fluke solely attributable to art direction: Alpert and the Tijuana Brass\u2019s Going Places (also 1965)<\/em> and What Now My Love (1966)<\/em> held the third and fifth spots on the 1966 year-end chart despite pleasant yet far more anodyne covers. Two songs on Whipped Cream, \u201cLolllipops and Roses\u201d<\/em> and the album\u2019s title song, became swingers\u2019 anthems after they were used to play on contestants on ABC-TV\u2019s The Dating Game<\/em>… read more ><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/psyne.co\/products\/whipped-cream-other-delights-1965-vintage-mens-t-shirt\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Herb Alpert remembers it, he was in a recording studio one day in 1965 when the art director for A&M, the label Alpert co-owned, showed him the photograph that would soon grace one of the most memorable LP covers of all time. \u201cMy first reaction was, \u2018Holy shit, man. Too racy,\u2019\u201d Alpert says. \u201cObviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":313289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1048,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8833,8994,50579,50580,50581,50582,50583,50584,50585,50586,32603,50587,50588,11432,20902,50589,21620,50590,50591,50592,50593,11406,9592,9593,8840,50594,13512,24362,8931,50595,9535,50596,9008,50597,50598,50599],"class_list":["post-313288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggage","tag-1960s","tag-8994","tag-a-taste-of-honey","tag-bittersweet-samba","tag-blueberry-park","tag-brass-band","tag-butterball","tag-dolores-erickson","tag-easy-listening","tag-el-garbanzo","tag-erotic","tag-green-peppers","tag-herb-alpert","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-lover","tag-ladyfingers","tag-latin","tag-latin-music","tag-lemon-tree","tag-lollipops-and-roses","tag-love-potion-9","tag-mexican","tag-music-is-life","tag-musician","tag-nude","tag-peanuts","tag-pop-music","tag-record-collector","tag-record-store","tag-rosemary","tag-sexy","tag-tangerine","tag-tijuana","tag-trumpet-player","tag-whipped-cream","tag-whipped-cream-other-delights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}