Alpert’s Whipped Cream Lady is 79

Cleveland's Dolores Erickson

Dolores Erickson, a 1954 Cleveland High School graduate who achieved fame as the Whipped Cream Lady on the cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’ “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” album, is 79 and living in Longview, California.

The former Eieen Ford model in New York still works at her art studio and is in good health. “I still don’t take any pills,” says Dolores.

She has a message for those boys now all grown-up: “Enjoy the view.”

As in the “Whipped Cream” album cover, seemingly naked but covered in what is supposed to be whipping cream.

“Whipped Cream” spent 141 weeks on Billboard’s Top 40 albums chart.

In later years, at concerts, Alpert would tell audiences, “Sorry, but I can’t play the cover for you."

“I looked at it as being an ice cream sundae,” Erickson says.

Her modeling career began when she was 14 and won a contest at the Frederick & Nelson department store in downtown Seattle. She became a staff model for Macy’s in San Francisco. Her movie and TV career mostly consisted of bit parts.