Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass’ ‘Whipped Cream & Other Delights’: Sweet & Swinging

If we examine the highest-charting albums of 1965 as tracked by Billboard magazine, we find the #1 slot dominated by movie soundtracks (Roustabout, Mary Poppins, Goldfinger, The Sound of Music and Help!), two LPs constructed by the Beatles’ American label Capitol that weren’t issued in England (Beatles ’65 and Beatles VI) and the Rolling Stones’ Out of Our Heads.

But the album that ruled the selling season from Thanksgiving to Christmas, and beyond, was one that appealed to hippies, squares, little old ladies, teenagers, Playboy-reading guys who dug the modern jazz scene—just about anyone with a set of ears who had access to a radio, stereo or television set. The album that spent nearly three years in the Top 40 was Whipped Cream & Other Delights, the fourth set from Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass.

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