Artist:  The Frivolous Five

Title:  Sour Cream & Other Delights

Date:  1966

Label:  RCA Victor Records   LSP-3663

Notes:  First we'll get the obvious out of the way. The cover art and album concept is a parody of everyone's favorite brass polisher, Herb Alpert and his Band O' Brass. Although only a few of the cuts here are taken from the Alpert album, the selection of material is planted firmly into the same vein. I can't vouch that the ladies of the cover are actually playing the instrument herein, but the music is humorous in any case. "It takes talent to play that bad intentionally" my wife has stated on a few occasions and I think this record fits the qualifying profile. Deft hands, mouths and brain combine to dangerously weave from chaos to an almost coherent structure before disintegrating into another round of follow the leader with no one in particular singled out as the aforementioned leader. Another one to file under W for Weird and Wonderful.

Track Listing

Side 1

Tijuana Taxi
Zorba the Greek
a Taste of Honey
All My Loving
Acapulco
Mexican Shuffle

Side 2

The Lonely Bull
What Now My Love
Spanish Flea
Magic Trumpet
Whipped Cream
Lemon Tree