[Vintage-Audio] TJB Whipped Cream

Wed Aug 12 15:27:27 EDT 2009

Hi Bob,

Your unfailing ability to dredge up those fantastic flashes from the past 
are among the multitude of reasons that I love you as a person, Ham and 
vintage music devotee. It adds some personality to the tale and I love 
reading them.

Yes, I knew it was not really Dream Whip she was artistically adorned with, 
but saying Burma Shave just seemed somehow wrong! But that mischievous, and 
slightly naughty but still innocent look sparkling in her eyes, well it left 
plenty for the all American male mind to get creative with!

Amazingly enough, my original mono copy of Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar" album 
survived the decades! It had gone on my MIA list. Then my buddy who is the 
low Bass singer brought over about twenty albums that I had given him to 
store for me twenty years or so ago. Bingo! Not only did I find the original 
collectable "Sugar" album, but also some guy named Denny McClaine playing an 
Organ. Now that one, I do believe I intentionally lost!

I also found an album by Tiny Tim. He was definitely playing Poker with a 
deck missing half its spots, but was actually very talented. Misplaced, but 
talented. On this album he actually somehow manages to hit two different 
notes at the same time!

I heard that he was originally trained in music, including singing Opera. 
But hearing him do that voice trick was awesome.

I stunned my oldest grandson, remember Brandon, when I produced two tones at 
the same time. Brandon just turned eighteen, hard to believe!

I generated a harmonicusing my throat mouth and lips while producing the 
primary tone with the vocal cords. I could cause it to rise or fall in 
pitch. He never did figure out how his not necessarily sane Grandpa did that 
one!

I think I left you a phone message some months back Bob.

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <ranickel at comcast.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] TJB Whipped Cream

>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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