[Vintage-Audio] TJB Whipped Cream Surprise

[wolfbob]

LP Released April 1965, crummy CD 1990 and even worse one in 2005.


other stuff:


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.

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, 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.



WBob





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] TJB Whipped Cream Surprise


>
>
> Hi All,
>
> My special thanks to the sneak out there who sent me an excellent original
> copy of Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream And Other Delights". What a surprise
> when that arrived unannounced at my door!
>
> I played it through today and listened for any imperfections or damage 
> from
> having been enoyed over the past forty-four years since its release. I 
> found
> one little "pop" in song two of side number two. But I think I know an 
> audio
> trick that might allow me to eliminate that little annoyance. I will tell
> you want I did later, if it works!
>
> I am off to attempt to remaster the album now. If all goes well, the DAT
> Master will be done in several hours - I hand cue and fade in and out of
> every track - so it takes longer. But in my ear's opinion, is worth it. 
> Then
> another forty-five minutes of real time from the DAT to the CDRW deck to
> burn the Master CD.
>
> Oh yes, a sighted friend who took a hard squint at the cover told me that 
> he
> could see clothing underneath that whipped cream bra! Did any of you 
> notice
> that?
>
> Question: Now granted my sighted readers are getting older and most have
> great difficulty in being able to read fine or fancy print. Try as we did, 
> I
> failed to find any production date on all of the A&M Record jackets. Is my
> reader missing them or?
>
> For reasons unknown, some albums seem to have a release or production date
> and others do not. Is there some reason for this?
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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