1. Early life and modeling

2. Whipped Cream & Other Delights

3. Later years

4. Personal life

5. References

6. Further reading

Dolores Erickson (born September 1935)^[1] is a model and artist. She came to prominence by appearing as a model on a number of album covers, most notably Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Early life and modeling

Erickson, the oldest of eight children,^[2] was raised first in Port Angeles, Washington, before moving with her family to Seattle, Washington,^[1] where she graduated from Cleveland High School in 1954.^[2] She started her modeling career at 14^[2] or 15^[6] after winning a contest to model for the Seattle department store Frederick & Nelson.^[2] In 1954, she won the Miss Maritime beauty pageant, and in 1955 won Miss Greenwood and competed to be Seafair Queen.^[1] She was also Miss Longshoreman.^[6]

With two fellow Seafair Princesses, future actresses Dorothy Provine and Dyan Cannon, Erickson visited San Francisco, where she found work for Macy's department store,^[2] earning $600 weekly at age 19. She left the University of Washington to pursue a modeling career, signing with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City.^[6] Erickson did photo shoots for fashion layouts and for cosmetics companies such as Max Factor,^[6] and appeared on 13^[1] or 18^[2] album covers for artists such as the Kingston Trio (Sold Out), Cy Coleman (Piano Witchcraft), Nat King Cole (Wild Is Love), and The Sandpipers (Guantanamera).^[1][3]

The modeling led, in early 1960, to Paramount Pictures signing her as a contract player.^[1] The studio later traded her to Warner Bros.^[3] She was scheduled to appear in the film The Pleasure of His Company, and did have roles in Love in a Goldfish Bowl and Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man. She also appeared in episodes of the TV detective shows Surfside 6 and 77 Sunset Strip, and the comedy-drama Father Knows Best.^[1][3]

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Art director Peter Whorf, at the time engaged to Erickson's best friend, used Erickson on many Capitol Records shoots.^[1] During this time, she became acquainted with trumpeter and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert, and watched part of the recording of The Lonely Bull album in Alpert's garage in 1962.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

The photo shoot for the cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album Whipped Cream & Other Delights — which remained in the Billboard top 10 for 61 weeks, and whose sexy cover would become a cultural touchstone^[6] — began in mid-morning, went on through the afternoon, and paid Erickson approximately $1,500 plus expenses.^[1] The shoot took place in Whorf's studio, a converted garage. Erickson, 29 years old and three months pregnant, sat on a stool with a white Christmas blanket covering her from the waist down, and wore a bikini with the straps down. She then was covered with shaving cream, which unlike whipped cream would not melt under the hot photographic lights, with a dollop of whipped cream on her head.^[2] As the shoot progressed, the shaving cream began to slide down her breasts slightly. Months later, Whorf sent her two outtakes.^[1] When she saw the more risqué pictures, she took them over to a girlfriend's house and hid them behind the friend's refrigerator, not wanting her conservative husband to find them.^[1][4] Initially, Alpert felt the cover image "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."^[5]

Later years

In the 1970s, Erickson returned to college, studying art in Portland, Oregon. She began painting, and owned the art gallery The Wild Deer, in Kelso, Washington, for a decade. As of the mid-2000s, she continued to paint what one newspaper called "Impressionist-style works in her duplex on Columbia Heights."^[3]

Personal life

In the early 1960s, following a broken engagement, Erickson lived in Mexico for a year before returning to the U.S. in 1963.^[4] Afterward, through

art director Peter Whorf, for whom she did many record-label photo shoots, she was introduced to her first husband, A&M Records general manager Gil Friesen.^[1] with whom she had a son, Brett.^[4] The couple divorced, and in the 1970s she married attorney Bob Huffhines Jr., whom she also later divorced.^[3] As of 2012, Erickson resided in Longview, Washington.^[2]

References

Further reading

• {{cite journal |title=The Whipped-Cream Girl Speaks |magazine=Playboy |volume=52 |number=11 |date=November 2005}}

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