Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Whipped Cream and Other Delights
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	28:22
Label	A&M
Producer	Herb Alpert; Jerry Moss
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass chronology
South of the Border (1964) Whipped Cream and Other Delights (1965) Going Places (1965)

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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".

Track listing

Side 1

1. "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) – 2:43
2. "Green Peppers" (Sol Lake) – 1:31
3. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 2:46
4. "Bittersweet Samba" (Sol Lake) – 1:46
5. "Lemon Tree" (Will Holt) – 2:23
6. "Whipped Cream" (Naomi Neville) – 2:33

Side 2

1. "Love Potion No. 9" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:02
2. "El Garbanzo" (Sol Lake) – 2:13
3. "Ladyfingers" (Toots Thielemans) – 2:43
4. "Butterball" (Mike Henderson) – 2:12
5. "Peanuts" (Luis Guerrero) – 2:09
6. "Lollipops and Roses" (Tony Velona) – 2:27

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 1989 EP 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," Cherry Capri and The Martini Kings' "Creamy Cocktails and Other Delights," the compilation "Right to Chews: Bubblegum Classics Revisited," Sweet Cream's 1978 album "Sweet Cream & Other Delights," Jabberwocky's 2005 release "Eat Shit and Die" and by Peter Nero on his album, Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

Singles taken from the album included "A Taste of Honey," "Whipped Cream" and "Lollipops and Roses". The latter two of these were eventually featured on the ABC-TV series The Dating Game: "Whipped Cream" as the intro to the bachelorette, and "Lollipops and Roses" as the theme used when the bachelor(ette) learned about the person chosen for the date. ("Spanish Flea", a song taken from the TJB's next album Going Places, was used as the theme for the bachelor.)

Up until this album, Alpert had utilized Los Angeles area studio musicians to back him on his records. 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, Chuck Berghofer, and Russell Bridges (who would later become famous in his own right as Leon Russell). 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.

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.
• "A Taste of Honey" is the introductory music of an 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.
• "Bittersweet Samba" is the theme song on the long-running Japanese radio series All Night Nippon.

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1965	Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200)	1
1966

References

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