Whenever a list
of the most memorable record covers is put together, Whipped Cream and Other
Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass is right at the top. According to
the New Yorker, the cover "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 and was the No. 1 LP for the first week of 1966 (a stint interrupted only by Rubber Soul's eight week ride at the top).
In later years, at concerts, Alpert would tell audiences, "Sorry, but I can't play
the cover for you."
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