Dolores Erickson
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Dolores Erickson came to prominence as a model, particularly for her appearances on several album covers, most notably Whipped Cream & Other Delights released in 1965 by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
[edit] Modeling
Erickson started her modeling career by going with a friend to a modeling contest for a department store, Frederick & Nelson in Seattle. While there with her friend, the fashion coordinator of the store asked Erickson to compete as well. This led her to additional modeling work and a few beauty pageants.
Erickson started college at the University of Washington but while on a vacation to San Francisco she applied for a job as a model for Macy's. She decided to leave school and model as a career.
Erickson would later become a model with the Ford Modeling Agency doing photo shoots for fashion layouts and cosmetics companies such as Max Factor. She appeared on album covers for artists such as Cy Coleman, Nat King Cole, and The Sandpipers.
[edit] Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Erickson had known Herb Alpert long before Whipped Cream and watched part of the recording of The Lonely Bull 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 clothed in a strapless bikini and covered with shaving cream with a dollop of actual whipped cream on her head. Erickson was three months pregnant at the time of the photo shoot which may have increased her bust size although she felt that there had been no visible change. At one point during the shoot her bikini top slipped a little. Woorf 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. According to Erickson, by today's standards the photos are pretty tame.
[edit] Later years
Erickson would go on to do more modeling, go back to school for art and eventually open her own art studio. She later closed the studio to paint full time.
She has been divorced twice, last married to attorney Robert Hufthines. She has one son, Brett. She currently resides in Kelso, Washington.
[edit] References
- Playboy magazine, Vol. 52 no. 11 - November, 2005, "The Whipped-Cream Girl Speaks"
- Seattle Times, Sherry Grindeland, Friday, July 21, 2000, "35 years later, 'cream' girl still whips up the fantasies"
- The New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten, Monday, April 10, 2006, "Whipped Again"
