The Best of Bill Cosby
The Best of Bill Cosby | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Bill Cosby | ||||
Released | August 1969 | |||
Recorded | 1964–1969 | |||
Genre | Stand-up comedy | |||
Length | 37:01 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
The Best of Bill Cosby (1969) is the 12th album by Bill Cosby.
It is his first compilation album containing favorites from his tenure with Warner Bros. Records, which had just been completed earlier that year. The liner notes were by David Ossman of the comedy group The Firesign Theatre.
Track listing
Some of the track titles on this album differ from those on the albums from which they were taken. Where applicable, the original titles are shown in parentheses.
Side 1
- Noah: Right! – 2:05 (from Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right!)
- Noah: And the Neighbor – 1:43 (from ...Right!)
- Noah: Me and You, Lord – 3:11 (from ...Right!)
- Revenge – 5:58 (from Revenge)
- The Lone Ranger – 0:55 (from I Started Out as a Child)
- Old Weird Harold (9th Street Bridge) – 5:12 (from Revenge)
Side 2
- Driving in San Francisco – 3:45 (from Why Is There Air?)
- The Apple – 1:43 (from To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With)
- Babies (Baby) – 3:49 (from Why Is There Air?)
- The Water Bottle – 0:58 (from I Started Out...)
- Street Football – 1:17 (from I Started Out...)
- Fat Albert (Buck, Buck) – 9:05 (from Revenge)
"The Lone Ranger", as presented on this album, is a truncated (shortened) version of the original recording.
The cassette tape release of the album reverses Sides 1 and 2 of the LP in order to sequence the longer side first.
British track listing
In 1967, an album of the same title was released in England by Warner Brothers (K46002), but with a different track listing and different cover art (it used the same photo as the cover of Wonderfulness for its front cover, and the photo and liner notes of Why Is There Air? for its back cover).
Side One
- Medic (from I Started Out...)
- Go Carts (from Wonderfulness)
- $75 Car (from Why Is There Air?)
- Noah: Right!
- Noah: And the Neighbor
- Noah: Me and You, Lord
Side Two
- Tonsils (from Wonderfulness)
- Kindergarten (from Why Is There Air?)
- The Playground (from Wonderfulness)
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[2] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ The Best of Bill Cosby at AllMusic
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
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- Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! (1963)
- I Started Out as a Child (1964)
- Why Is There Air? (1965)
- Wonderfulness (1966)
- Revenge (1967)
- To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968)
- 200 M.P.H. (1968)
- It's True! It's True! (1969)
- 8:15 12:15 (1969)
- Sports (1969)
- Live: Madison Square Garden Center (1970)
- When I Was a Kid (1971)
- For Adults Only (1971)
- Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby (1972)
- Fat Albert (1973)
- My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do? (1977)
- Bill's Best Friend (1978)
- Bill Cosby: Himself (1982)
- Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand (1986)
- Oh, Baby! (1991)
- Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (1967)
- Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968)
- Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971)
- Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1971)
- Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (1972)
- At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings (1974)
- Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976)
- Disco Bill (1977)
- State of Emergency (2009)
- The Best of Bill Cosby (1969)
- More of the Best of Bill Cosby (1970)
- Bill (1973)
- Down Under (1975)
- "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)" (1967)
- The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71)
- The New Bill Cosby Show (1972-73)
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–85)
- Cos (1976)
- The Cosby Show (1984–92)
- A Different World (1987–93)
- The Cosby Mysteries (1994–95)
- Cosby (1996–2000)
- Little Bill (1999–2004)
- Fatherhood (2004–05)
films and specials
- Himself (1983)
- Bill Cosby 77 (unreleased)
- Fatherhood (1986)
- Pound Cake speech (2004)
- Tetragrammaton Records
- Collection of African-American art
- Andrea Constand lawsuit
- We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
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