I first remember seeing this album at the tender age of 11 or so at a church raffle and hearing a lady say "what is THAT doing here?" LONG before my WAM interest.

http://coolalbumreview.com/?p=32426&fbclid=IwAR3f1NYsbB640tGQhsMKwZ_CYiJTnuWe_xnr71AjQ3ocn6oJPzeeyzXT-yM

My dad had this record when I was a kid. I remember staring at it a bunch. Very alluring cover.

I think Sploshman and I saw that at one of the MANY record stores we hit up when he was visiting.

And here's the link:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/herb-alperts-whipped-cream-lady-now-76-living-in-longview-and-looking-back/

Hey, Imagine a nice inner city Catholic boy....

My dad also had that record too

I first saw that LP when I was about 14, in the home of some friends of my family when I was babysitting for them. It was a fairly important moment for me, because although I'd begun to develop my pie fetish 8-9 years previous to that (although of course with no idea of what a fetish was at the tender age of 5 or 6), this was still well before the Internet came along, and so it was the first sign I'd ever had that other people might find the sight of woman dripping with whipped cream sexy. (I know now that the model is actually covered in shaving cream, but I'm glad I didn't realize this at the time.)

Uh oh, I hope the church lady didn't toss it out!

This was also one of the most parodied album covers of all time. A local record store used to have a whole wall of albums, like Soul Asylum's "Clam Dip and Other Delights."

...Or maybe a lot of other bands wanted to try the WAM thing and thought this was the perfect excuse.

That reminds me of a little shoot I did with Naomi K.

So we can blame the church lady, then?

"Sorry, this is NOT for children's eyes and it has no place here at this church festival!" Mildred warned the disappointed youth, snatching the album with its lurid (by parish standards) cover art from his grasp. Rifling through the stack of LPs donated by the congregation's small but loyal flock, she returned with a new selection, this one featuring nothing more offensive than Pat Boone in a proper button-down shirt, smiling angelically for his fans.


*It's for your own good, kid,* she wanted to say when little Rob scowled with distaste at the replacement. *Too much exposure to trash like that and you'll grow up -liking- that kind of material...you might turn out a complete deviant!* She shuddered at the thought of Rob as an adult, chatting with other like-minded perverts on Internet forums about their admiration for this image and countless others like it. Herb Alpert may have made it mainstream, but it was one thin step from outright pornography! Why, the girl on the cover was likely nude and almost exposed under all that whipped cream, what if they got the idea to take it further?

Later that night, "Whipped Cream Girl" stared seductively back from the LP propped against Mildred's personal computer while her modem finished squealing, indicating she had successfully dialed in to CompuServe.

"My fellow messy friends, you would not believe the close call I had at church today, but I think I saved an impressionable young child before it was too late," she typed on her favorite clandestine bulletin board system, stealing glimpses at the model on the album cover in all her messy glory. "He wasn't too happy with me for taking that LP, but at least he can wait until he's an adult before deciding if he really likes this. It's probably just a phase, anyway."

And even Pat Boone was turned to the dark side! (Warning! This may make you want to poke out your own eardrums!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqY-zvdESQ