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Hooray For Bill Cosby!

Alec Cullen | Sydney, Australia | 05/06/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've owned the vinyl version of this album since it was released in the year dot and given it quite a hammering,so I was delighted to get hold of the CD.

It's still one of the all time great funk outings, with the Watts 103rd Street Band simultaneously raw and ultra tight...and Bill Cosby wailing deceptively funny lyrics.If you like funk and fun, this is the one!"

Stick to comedy, not in your hands

D. S. Crommie | Portland, Oregon | 05/15/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"If you love William Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, or Leonard Nimoy's take on Proud Mary, or perhaps Andy Griffith doing House of the Rising Sun - then this one's for you! Bill Cosby isn't really a singer - or is he? Some of this is kind of funny, whether he means for it to be or not. I mean, Sunny for instance, sounds as if it was phoned in from home first thing in the morning - before the first cup of coffee. Hooray for the Salvation Army Band's title track is definitely a spoof on Purple Haze, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band is just plain weird - he really just shouts out the lyrics. Sheesh, I dunno - good for a couple of laughs."