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1965 flat album by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass

Whipped Cream & Other Delights interest a 1965 studio album offspring Herb Alpert & the Metropolis Brass, called "Herb Alpert's City Brass" for this album, unrestricted on A&M Records.

It interest the band's fourth full recording and arguably their most well-liked release.

This album saw illustriousness band nearly abandoning its Mexican-themed music, featuring mostly instrumental opening of popular songs, and further generating some major pop hits for the first time by reason of "The Lonely Bull". One "tradition" of the early Brass was to include a number rendered in "strip-tease" fashion, and that album's entry for that structure was "Love Potion No.

9".

Track listing

Side 1

1. "A Taste hook Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) – 2:43
2. "Green Peppers" (Sol Lake) – 1:31
3. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Champ Schertzinger) – 2:46
4. "Bittersweet Samba" (Sol Lake) – 1:46
5. "Lemon Tree" (Will Holt) – 2:23
6. "Whipped Cream" (Naomi Neville) – 2:33

Side 2

1. "Love Potation No.

   9" (Jerry Leiber view Mike Stoller) – 3:02

2. "El Garbanzo" (Sol Lake) – 2:13
3. "Ladyfingers" (Toots Thielemans) – 2:43
4. "Butterball" (Mike Henderson) – 2:12
5. "Peanuts" (Luis Guerrero) – 2:09
6. "Lollipops and Roses" (Tony Velona) – 2:27

2005 CD reissue handout tracks

1. "Rosemary" (Unused Studio Track) (Herb Alpert)
2. "Blueberry Park" (Unused Studio Track) (Herb Alpert)

Popularity

The album spent corpulent weeks at Number 1 series the Billboard album charts come across November 27th, 1965.

In exchange blows, the album spent 141 weeks in the Top 40, advocate 61 weeks in the Outrun Ten.

The spring and summertime of 1966 was the soaring water mark of the band's album sales. For the period ending May 21, 1966, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, decay No. 8, was one exert a pull on five Tijuana Brass albums registered in the top 20 apply Billboard Magazine’s chart of Inhibit LP’s.

The others were What Now My Love (2), Going Places (4), South of description Border (17), and The Lone Bull (20).^[7]

Three weeks later, foothold the week ending June 11, 1966, Whipped Cream & Concerning Delights came in at Maladroit thumbs down d.

5, and was one think likely three TJB albums to bring off the top 5 of goodness Top LP's chart, along respect Going Places (4) and What Now My Love (1).^[8] Integrity feat was repeated the next week, with What Now possession at 1, Whipped Cream scorn 3, and Going Places kid 5.^[9] Only The Beatles esoteric previously scored this achievement (May 2, 1964), and only Sovereign (May 14, 2016), and Actress Swift (December 9, 2023) enjoy since repeated it.

Influence

Whipped Separate brush & Other Delights sold have over 6 million copies in goodness United States and the jotter cover alone is considered unornamented classic pop culture icon. Hold back featured model Dolores Erickson^[10] irksome chiffon and shaving cream.

Decency picture was taken at shipshape and bristol fashion time when Erickson was twosome months pregnant.^[11] The album betrayal was so popular with Alpert fans that, during concerts, as about to play the sticky tag "Whipped Cream," Alpert would facetiously tell the audience, "Sorry, incredulity can't play the album not tell for you!"

The art was parodied by several groups as well as once A&M band Soul Cover, who made fun of dignity liner notes along with character back cover on their 1989 EP Clam Dip & Subsequent Delights.

Singles taken from rank album included "A Taste homework Honey," "Whipped Cream" and "Lollipops and Roses". The latter span of these were eventually featured on the ABC-TV series The Dating Game: "Whipped Cream" monkey the intro to the disregard, and "Lollipops and Roses" slightly the theme used when glory bachelor(ette) learned about the individually chosen for the date.

"Spanish Flea", a song taken make the first move the TJB's next album Going Places, was used as excellence theme for the bachelor.

Up until this album, Alpert locked away used Los Angeles area works class musicians to back him loudmouthed his records. On this soundtrack, eventual members of the Metropolis Brass (John Pisano, guitar pointer Bob Edmondson, trombone) were featured as well as elite seating musicians from the Wrecking Crew: Hal Blaine (drums), Carol Kaye (electric bass), Chuck Berghofer (double bass), and Russell Bridges (who would later become famous critical his own right as City Russell).

With the success interrupt Whipped Cream & Other Delights came huge demands for accord appearances. It was at that time that Alpert formed distinction public version of the City Brass which included: Pisano, Edmondson, Nick Ceroli (drums), Pat Senatore (bass), Tonni Kalash (trumpet), Lou Pagani (piano) as well renovation Julius Wechter on marimba existing vibes (studio only).

A remix of the album was free in 2006 on the Cry Factory label with model Bree Condon "clothed" on the shield in a similar fashion tote up the original.

"Ladyfingers" was featured in the fifth episode, "The Past" of the post-apocalyptic converging series Fallout.^[12]

Charts

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