[Vintage-Audio] TJB Whipped Cream

[Robert Nickels]

I can indeed testify to Duanes skill in remastering old vinyl 
recordings, which produces outstanding results.   And Duane, I realize I 
do owe you a private reply to your recent email, and will try to do so 
shortly.  Too many irons in the fire!

I don't have a pristine copy of the TJB album either, but I do know 
exactly where I first saw it.  I was 14years old, working on the Boy 
Scout Radio merit badge in April of 1965.  I'd set up a meeting with the 
adviser, a ham operator, at his home and my mom was to pick me up a 
couple of hours later.   Just as we got started copying some Morse code, 
the phone rang.  My advisor was also a CPA, and you know what CPAs do 
every April!   So he ended up leaving me at the controls of his Collins 
KWM-2 transceiver to copy on my own, while he went to his office to calm 
some tax-crazed client down.  

On the other end of the den-like ham shack was a stereo, or maybe just a 
"hi-fi" as I can't recall if there was one speaker or two!  Nor can I 
remember what the components were, but they were definitely a couple of 
steps above the normal "record player" most of my friends and I had.  
And there, on the turntable, was a copy of the brand-new just released 
"Whipped Cream and Other Delights" LP.    Well, I guess there was a 
record somewhat, all I remember looking at is the album cover!     The 
guy did return and helped finish up the code lesson, and I guess over 
the years the experience of running a Collins rig  made a greater 
impression on me than the TJB album.  But not so much so that I don't 
remember this story quite clearly!

And Duane, sorry to spoil whatever thoughts you might have entertained 
about the photo session, but I have read that the substance used to 
adorn the lovely Dolores Erickson's torso was a far less tasty - but 
emminently more stable material,  shaving cream!  (And, she was 3 months 
pregnant at the time a fact that clearly would never have been made 
public back in '65)    According to wikipedia, she modeled for other 
album covers, including /"Guantanamera" /by the Sandpipers.   She did a 
Playboy interview in 2005 and is currently living in Kelso Washington, 
where a newspaper article in  2000 was aptly titled:   "35 years later, 
'cream' girl still whips up the fantasies"

73, Bob W9RAN
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