I posted this photo without explanation in a Facebook record collector’s group and there were so many irrationally angry comments about it.
In the past couple of years Herb Alpert’s “Whipped cream and Other Delights” has become some kind of in-joke in the record collectors groups and some of the stodgier members get very bent out of shape about it. But I’ve been picking these things up for decades. After years of seeing WCAOD as the most-prolific album in every thrift store, but also being charmed by the cover (which is my favorite album cover of all time), I decided it would be “fun” to try to take the record out of local thrift store circulation. I started buying it any time I saw it, starting in 1990 — as long as the price was $1 or less. I also have a pretty huge art collection of copies where I have commissioned favorite artists to paint over the covers, incorporating the original artwork. I did a gallery show 15 or so years ago of altered covers.
Most recently the record shows up in two different gags in my movie PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT.
Record collectors are weird.
