Whipped Cream & Other Delights

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Whipped Cream and Other Delights
Whipped Cream and Other Delights cover
Studio album by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Released April 1965 (LP); 1990 (A&M Records CD); March 2005 (Shout! Factory CD)
Recorded 1965
Genre Jazz; Instrumental pop
Length 25 minutes
Label A&M Records; Shout! Factory
Producer Herb Alpert; Jerry Moss
Professional reviews
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass chronology
South of the Border
(1964)		 Whipped Cream and Other Delights
(1965)		 Going Places
(1965)

Whipped Cream and Other Delights is a 1965 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, called "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass" for this album, released on A&M Records. It is the band's fourth full album and arguably their most popular release.

This album saw the band nearly abandoning its Mexican-themed music, featuring mostly covers of popular songs, and also generating some major pop hits for the first time since "The Lonely Bull". One "tradition" of the early Brass was to include a number rendered in "strip-tease" fashion, and this album's entry for that style was "Love Potion No. 9".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. A Taste of Honey {Scott-Marlow} – 2:43
  2. Green Peppers {Sol Lake} – 1:31
  3. Tangerine {Mercer-Schertzinger} – 2:46
  4. Bittersweet Samba {Sol Lake} – 1:46
  5. Lemon Tree {Will Holt} – 2:23
  6. Whipped Cream {Naomi Neville} – 2:33
  7. Love Potion No. 9 {Leiber-Stoller} – 3:02
  8. El Garbanzo {Sol Lake} – 2:13
  9. Ladyfingers {Toots Thielemans} – 2:43
  10. Butterball {Mike Henderson} – 2:12
  11. Peanuts {Luis Guerrero} – 2:09
  12. Lollipops and Roses {Tony Velona} [ – 2:27]

[edit] Influence

Whipped Cream sold over 6 million copies in the United States and the album cover alone is considered a classic pop culture icon. It featured model Dolores Erickson wearing chiffon and shaving cream. The picture was taken at a time when Erickson was three months pregnant. The cover was so popular with Alpert fans that, during concerts, when about to play the song "Whipped Cream", Alpert would tell the audience, "Sorry, we can't play the cover for you!"

The art was parodied by several groups including once A&M band Soul Asylum, who made fun of the liner notes along with the back cover on their album Clam Dip & Other Delights, comedian Pat Cooper on his album Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights, the Frivolous Five on a Herb Alpert tribute album, "Sour Cream and Other Delights" and by Peter Nero on his album, Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

The singles included the title cut and "Lollipops and Roses". Many of the songs on the album were featured on The Dating Game, as in the song "Whipped Cream" as the intro to the bachelorette. "Spanish Flea", a cut from Going Places, became the theme for the bachelor. "Lollipops and Roses" was the theme used when the bachelor(ette) learned about the person chosen for the date (ABC version only).

Up until this album, Alpert had utilized LA area studio musicians, to back him. On this album eventual members of the Tijuana Brass (John Pisano, guitar and Bob Edmondson, trombone) were featured as well as studio vets Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Russell Bridges (better known as Leon Russell) and Chuck Berghofer. With the success of "Whipped Cream" came huge demands for concert appearances. It was at this time that Alpert formed the public version of the Tijuana Brass which included: Pisano, Edmondson, Nick Ceroli (drums), Pat Senatore (bass), Tonni Kalash (trumpet), Lou Pagani (piano) as well as Julius Wechter on marimba and vibes (studio only).

A remix of the album, was released in 2006 on the Shout Factory label with a similarly "clothed" model on the cover.

The pop standard "Tangerine" appeared around the time that another version of that song was used as the theme for a then-popular dietary supplement called SEGO.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • Herb's partner, Jerry Moss, suggested that the album be titled after food items, hence the titles of the songs.
  • New Orleans pianist/producer Allen Toussaint wrote "Whipped Cream" under the pseudonym Naomi Neville
  • In 2000, author Jack Gantos wrote Joey Pigza Loses Control, which includes many references to Whipped Cream and Other Delights. For example, in one part of the book, Joey tries to recreate the cover by covering himself in shaving cream, but realized that he didn't look like the cover. Also, he kissed everything in sync with "Love Potion No. 9", including a mailbox. He shot peanuts out of his nose while whistling "Peanuts". He also wanted to play "A Taste of Honey" on his trumpet while at the church choir practice.
  • The album can be spotted in the background of various episodes of Freaks and Geeks, in the living room of the Weir house.
  • Comedian Pat Cooper spoofed the album cover with his LP Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights, which featured him standing in a pile of spaghetti, splashed with tomato sauce, and grasping a bunch of bread sticks in his left hand while licking the fingers of his right. Image can be seen from this link, http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/A/Alpert/pat_cooper.jpg
  • "A Taste of Honey" is the introductory music of a famous Italian radio programme: "it:Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto" literally "All soccer minute by minute", broadcast every Sunday with match commentaries and the latest scores from Italian football.

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1965 Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) 1
1966
Preceded by
The Sound of Music (soundtrack)
by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II		 Billboard 200 number-one album
November 27, 1965 - January 7, 1966
February 19 - March 4, 1966		 Succeeded by
Rubber Soul by The Beatles
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