Bill Cosby - Why Is There Air
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Artist: Bill CosbyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Kindergarten
- Personal Hygiene
- Shop
- Baby
- Driving in San Francisco
- $75 Car
- The Toothache
- Hofstra
Music reviews of Why Is There Air
Music Review: 1965 is a while ago, but not much here has aged
Rating: 4 Stars
Some comedy greats make quite topical laugh fests. They may be brilliant satire but they can't really be listened to over FORTY YEARS after they were released. Not so with this album.
Following up Billy Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow Right (1963) and I Started Out As A Child (1964) this 1965 album encompasses timeless and vanilla clean sketches about kindergarten, woodshop class, toothaches and football etc... not really a darn thing that's outlandish or otherworldly or hysterical, but the belly laughs Cosby is able to create from his observations of everyday life and the behaviour and thought patterns of ordinary people particularly during their formative years are truly inspirational.
Sure some of this stuff may sound fairly twee and a bit nerdy now but there is always a place for this kind of child like humour full of innocence and wonder. And for the prices you can score these Warner Archive discs you might as well buy the whole series and be done with it.
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Description of Why Is There Air
Another million seller (#19 in 1965)! Includes Personal Hygiene; Driving in San Francisco; The Toothache , and more.Cosby sounds fired up on this live one. "Kindergarten" kicks off the disc in fine fashion with the soon-to-be TV star's spot-on and kid-centered description of early grammar school. Cosby accurately captures the strangeness of a time when a lot of things don't quite make sense and you are constantly being told what to do. "Personal Hygiene" and "Shop" take us through junior high before we arrive at the comedian's tales of young adulthood on the disc's last five tracks. "Hofstra" closes the CD with an eight-minute depiction of a very bad college football team before and during another humiliating game. Cosby manages to turn the awful team's terror and suffering into an occasion for laughs. Like other Cosby albums from the '60s, Why Is There Air? is full of the comic's highly effective sound effects. --Fred Cisterna
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