Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Erickson had known Herb Alpert long before Whipped Cream and watched part of the recording of The Lonely Bull album in Alpert's garage in 1962. Erickson and Alpert were members of a group of friends that included art director Peter Whorf.
Alpert and Jerry Moss, his business partner in A&M records, were originally not impressed with the sketches of the cover but they agreed to it. The photo shoot was done in one afternoon with Erickson covered with shaving cream with a dollop of whipped cream on her head. Erickson was three months pregnant at the time of the photo shoot, which could have increased her bust size, although she felt that there had been no visible change. As shoot progressed, the shaving cream began to slide down her breasts slightly. Whorf had taken a couple pictures of this and sent the proofs, along with numerous other shots, to Erickson for her portfolio. When she saw the more risqué pictures, she took them over to a girlfriend's house and hid them behind her refrigerator because she didn't want her husband to find them. Initially, Alpert felt an image like that "was maybe pushing it a little too far...I thought the censors would be down on it. But in 2006 it looks pretty darn tame.”
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Famous quotes containing the word cream:
“It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)