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At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings (album)
''At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings'' is an album by Bill Cosby. It is his fifth music-based album and the only one released on the Stax Records-distributed Partee Records. It features appearances from former Stevie Wonder band members like future R&B star Ray Parker Jr. on guitar, and also features a second collaboration with his songwriting partner Stu Gardner, who plays organ on the album. A truncated, instrumental version of "Kiss Me" would serve as the theme for ''The Cosby Show'' ten years later. Track listing Side one #"Train to Memphis" (Stuart Gardner/Bill Cosby) #"Kiss Me" (Gardner/Cosby) #"No One Can Love the Way You Do" (Gardner/Cosby) #"Dedicated to Phyllis" (Cosby) Side two #"It's Strange" (Gardner/Cosby) #"Put Love In Its Proper Place" (Gardner) #"Dance of the Frozen Lion" (Cosby/Gardner) #"Special Lady Sweetness" (Gardner) #"Take Your Time" (Gardner/Cosby) Personnel *Bill Cosby – vocals, spoken word *Stu Gardner – piano, organ *Ray Parker Jr. – guitar *Olli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cosby
William Henry Cosby Jr. ( ; born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and media personality. He made significant contributions to American and African-American culture, and is well known in the United States for his eccentric image, and gained a reputation as "America's Dad" for his portrayal of Cliff Huxtable on ''The Cosby Show'' (1984–1992). He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees throughout his career. Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco during the 1960s. Throughout the decade, he released several standup comedy records which consecutively earned him the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album from 1965 to 1970. He also had a starring role in the television crime show ''I Spy'' (1965–1968) opposite Robert Culp. Cosby made history when he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1966, making him the first African American to earn an Emmy Award for acting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa. It also had a resurgence with artists like Erykah Badu under the genre neo-soul. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music reflects the African-American identity, and it stresses the importance of an African-Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stax Records
Stax Records is an American record company, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the label changed its name to Stax Records in 1961. It also shared its operations with sister label Volt Records. Stax was influential in the creation of Southern soul and Memphis soul music. Stax also released gospel, funk, and blues recordings. Renowned for its output of blues music, the label was founded by two siblings and business partners, Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax). It featured several popular ethnically integrated bands (including the label's house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s) and a racially integrated team of staff and artists unprecedented in that time of racial strife and tension in Memphis and the South. According to ethnomusicologist Rob Bowman, the label's use of "one studio, one equipment set-up, the same set of musicians and a small group of songwriters led to a readily identifiable sound. It was a soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill (Bill Cosby Album)
''Bill'' (1973) is a compilation album of previously released material by Bill Cosby William Henry Cosby Jr. ( ; born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and media personality. He made significant contributions to American and African-American culture, and is well known in the United States for his eccentric .... All the routines are edited down compared to their original appearances on previous albums, some slightly, some considerably. Track listing #Handball At The "Y" – 3:38 #"Froofie" The Dog – 4:15 #Survival – 2:56 #Fernet Branca – 7:55 #Snakes and Alligators – 2:34 #Track and Field/High Jump – 5:33 #Ennis' Toilet – 1:31 #My Brother, Russell – 3:04 #Masculinity At Its Finest – 5:53 #Wally, Wally – 3:39 #My Dad's Car – 4:52 #The Lower Track – 2:13 #(In Las Vegas) Be Good To Your Wives – 4:03 #(In Las Vegas) Bill Cosby Fights Back – 4:23 #Buck Jones – 5:13 #Bill Cosby's First Baby – 5:17 #Basketball – 3:20 #Fat Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down Under (album)
''Down Under'' (1975) is the 21st album by Bill Cosby. It is his third compilation album containing favorites from his tenure with Warner Bros. Records. Track listing Side One #Baseball (from ''To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With'') #$75 Car (from ''Why Is There Air?'') #Burlesque Shows (from ''It's True! It's True!'') #Helicopters (from ''It's True! It's True!'') #Niagara Falls (from ''Wonderfulness'') Side Two #Mothers And Fathers (from ''200 M.P.H.'') #The Wife (from ''200 M.P.H.'') #The Toothache (from ''Why Is There Air?'') #The Losers (from ''To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With ''To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With'' is the sixth comedy album by Bill Cosby and his eighth album overall. It was recorded in 1968 in the Public Auditorium, Cleveland Public Auditorium, and it was released later that year on a 12″ Gra ...'') Bill Cosby compilation albums Spoken word albums by American artists Live spoken word albums 1975 compilation albums Warner Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris ( Judkins; May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, Gospel music, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of Contemporary R&B, R&B. He also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LP record, LPs as cohesive and consistent, in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Visual impairment, Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's single "Fingertips" was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1963, at the age of 13, making him the List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Parker Jr
Ray Erskine Parker Jr. (born May 1, 1954) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. As a solo performer, he wrote and performed the theme song to the 1984 film ''Ghostbusters''. Previously, Parker achieved a US top-10 hit in 1982 with " The Other Woman". He also performed with his band, Raydio, and with Barry White. Early life Parker was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Venolia Parker and Ray Parker Sr. He has two siblings: his brother Opelton and his sister Barbara. Parker attended Angel Elementary School where his music teacher, Afred T Kirby, inspired him to be a musician at age six playing the clarinet. Parker attended Cass Technical High School in the 10th grade. Parker is a 1971 graduate of Detroit's Northwestern High School. He was raised in the Dexter-Grand Boulevard neighborhood on its West Side. Parker attended college at Lawrence Institute of Technology. Music career Early work Parker gained recognition during the late 1960s as a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Gardner
Stuart Gardner is an American musician and composer. He is known for his collaborations with Bill Cosby, and for co-writing "Kiss Me", the theme song of Cosby's sitcom ''The Cosby Show''. He produced the album '' A House Full of Love: Music from The Cosby Show'', and was the musical director of '' Cos'', ''The Cosby Show'' and its spin-off, ''A Different World''. Career Gardner appeared in the 1967 film ''Point Blank'' as the singer in the nightclub scene, singing, "Mighty Good Times", which was written by Gardner, and appears on the film's soundtrack album. In 1971, Gardner had a record album out, ''Big Mouth'' which was produced by David Briggs. Among the musicians playing on the album were Kent Sprague and Gary Stovall. It was released on Spindizzy Records Z 31024 in 1971. All of the songs were composed by gardner except for "Wake Up Little Girl" which was composed by Sprague. Gardner's composition "Where the Master Lives" was released on a single.45Cat Big Mouth (US 70s) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cosby Show
''The Cosby Show'' is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired Thursday nights for eight seasons on NBC between September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. ''The Cosby Show'' spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. ''The Cosby Show'' and ''All in the Family'' are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20. According to ''TV Guide'', the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes." ''TV Guide'' also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad". In May 1992, ''Entertainment Weekly'' stated that ''The Cosby Show'' helped to make possible a larger variety of sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ollie E
Ollie is a given name and a nickname, often as a shortened form of Oliver, Olive, Olympia, Olga or Olivia. Variants include Olie, Oli, Oly and Olly. People Given name * Ollie Marie Adams (1925–1998), American gospel and R&B singer * Ollie Bassett (born 1998), Northern Irish footballer * Ollie E. Brown (born 1953), American drummer and record producer * Ollie Grieve (1920–1978), Australian rules footballer * Ollie Halsall (1949–1992), British vibraphonist and guitarist * Ollie Murray James (1871–1918), American Senator and Representative from Kentucky * Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1942), American basketball player * Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1949), American basketball player * Ollie Kilkenny (born 1962), Irish hurler * Ollie Kirkby (1886–1964), American actress * Ollie Luba (born 1964), American systems and aerospace engineer, early developer of GPS III * Ollie Marquardt (1902–1968), American baseball player and manager * Ollie Matson (1930–2011), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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