[78-L] Thanks for the Mammaries...

[David Lennick]

And here's how she looks today:
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/F/frivolous_sour.html

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On 8/18/2012 2:09 PM, Graham Newton wrote:
>
> Noted elsewhere but I thought you'd all wanna know about this!
>
>
> ... Graham Newton
>
>
>
> The Whipped Cream Lady who is the model on the memorable LP cover of the 1965
> Herb Alpert&  the Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream&  Other Delights" is 76 now and
> living in Longview. Dolores Erickson wants to tell all you teen dreamers,
> "Enjoy the memories."
>
> By Erik Lacitis
> Seattle Times staff reporter
>
> GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
>
> Dolores Erickson appeared on the cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert&  the Tijuana
> Brass' "Whipped Cream&  Other Delights." The former model now is 76 and living
> in Longview.
>
>
> Guys, the girl of your teen dreams now is 76.
>
> Her name is Dolores Erickson and she has been living in Longview for around 35
> years, after a career that included being an Eileen Ford model in New York.
>
> She appeared at a Seattle record store Wednesday and wants to tell you teen
> dreamers, "Enjoy the memories."
>
> You don't know her by name ? maybe as the "Whipped Cream Lady" ? but certainly
> by the album cover on which she is featured: the 1965 Herb Alpert&  the Tijuana
> Brass' "Whipped Cream&  Other Delights."
>
> There she is, seemingly naked but covered in what is supposed to be whipping
> cream looking at YOU.
>
> Whenever a list of the most memorable record covers is put together, that album
> is right at the top.
>
> How did a 2006 New Yorker magazine article explain the impact of that photo?
>
> Oh, yes, it: "fogged the minds of many young men, as they gazed at the...
> personalized come-hitherhood to the woman staring back ... the inner portion of
> a bare breast protrudes from the foam. She is licking cream from the index
> finger of her right hand... in the virtually pornless atmosphere of the
> suburban mid-sixties it was ... the pinnacle of allure."
>
> The record spent 141 weeks on Billboard's Top 40 albums chart.
>
> In later years, at concerts, Alpert would tell audiences, "Sorry, but I can't
> play the cover for you."
>
> Erickson drove up here to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Golden Oldies, the
> used-record store in Wallingford. A steady stream of fans stopped by,
> including, surprisingly, women.
>
> Toni Weschler, 56, got signed copies for her brothers. She remembers growing up
> in New York and playing the album.
>
> She remembers how her brothers couldn't take their eyes off the LP. "They
> stared at it constantly. It was very risqu?. They hadn't seen this much breast
> in their life."
>
> For Erickson, the photo shoot was one of many in her career.
>
> She is a 1954 Cleveland High School graduate, and her modeling began when she
> was 14 and won a contest at the venerable Frederick&  Nelson department store
> in downtown Seattle.
>
> Her modeling career blossomed, and she ended up a staff model for Macy's in San
> Francisco, in the days when department stores could afford such things.
>
> Erickson spent time in Los Angeles, signed to contracts by Paramount and then
> Warner Bros., but her movie and TV career mostly consisted of bit parts.
>
> At age 24, she went to New York City and ended up being signed by Eileen Ford.
> She was in ads for Max Factor and was in all the women's magazines. Erickson is
> 5 feet 7, with dark brown hair and green eyes, and still weighs about the same
> as in the modeling days, which is around 119 pounds.
>
> But she's cognizant of time having gone by. "Please don't do any close-ups,"
> she tells a photographer.
>
> In 1965, she got a call to fly to Los Angeles for a photo shoot for A&  M, a
> new label started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. The photographer was Peter
> Whorf, with whom she had done other covers.
>
> Payment would be around $1,500 ($11,000 in today's dollars), plus expenses.
>
> The shoot began midmorning and lasted through the afternoon. Erickson put on a
> bikini, but with the straps down.
>
> She was 29 and three months pregnant. "But I wasn't showing," she says.
>
> Erickson sat on a stool and from the waist down, Whorf placed on her a white
> Christmas tree blanket.
>
> Then shaving cream was sprayed on Erickson. Under the bright lights, whipping
> cream would melt, although it was real whipping on top of her head.
>
> The shoot kept going, Erickson remembers, and she didn't notice that the
> shaving cream kept slipping down.
>
> Months later, Whorf mailed her two outtakes.
>
> "He sent them to shock me. And it did shock me. I screamed," says Erickson. "I
> was a Christian girl."
>
> Erickson has kept a copy of one of the outtakes, and it is a bit more
> revealing, but not by that much.
>
> But she worried that her then-husband, a New York shoe manufacturer, and
> "conservative," would become upset. She hid the two photos behind the
> refrigerator at a girlfriend's home. Later, she'd tear up the photo she deemed
> the most revealing.
>
> In the mid-70s, raising a young son, Erickson moved to Longview to be near her
> sister, and for years, ran an art studio.
>
> Actually, it was by happenstance that back in 2000, while visiting here, that
> recognition began for Erickson's role on that memorable album cover. She had
> stopped by Golden Oldies to buy some used copies of "Whipped Cream."
>
> She didn't have any copies herself and wanted to sign some for friends. Before
> that, the album's importance in pop culture hadn't registered with her.
>
> But when Dean Silverstone, owner of Golden Oldies, found out he was dealing
> with the actual Whipped Cream Lady, he thought, "It was like finding a jewel
> that's been buried in the desert for 40 years. Everybody knows about the album
> cover but nobody knows about her."
>
> By 2012 standards, that album cover is demure.
>
> Yet it endures. Teen dreams.
>
> "I looked at it as being an ice cream sundae," Erickson says.
>
>
>
>
> ... Graham Newton
>