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ABOUT THIS ALBUM: Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.
His career as a musician includes recording five No. 1 albums and 28 albums on the Billboard magazine album chart, fourteen platinum albums, fifteen gold albums, and nine Grammy Awards. He has sold 72 million records worldwide. Alpert is the only musician to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist (“This Guy’s in Love with You”, 1968) and an instrumentalist (“Rise”, 1979).
“Whipped Cream & 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 instrumental arrangements 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.”
“Whipped Cream & Other Delights” 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 album cover was so popular with Alpert fans that, during concerts, when about to play the song “Whipped Cream,” Alpert would jokingly tell the audience, “Sorry, we can’t play the album cover for you!”
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 or bachelorette 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.
WHY I CHOSE THIS ALBUM: This is an album of happy, upbeat music, and showcases the tremendous talent of Herb Alpert.
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