''At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings'' is an album 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 ...

. It is his fifth music-based album and the only one released on the

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 ...

-distributed Partee Records. It features appearances from former

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 musi ...

band members like future R&B star

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 h ...

on guitar, and also features a second collaboration with his songwriting partner

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 fro ...

, who plays organ on the album. A truncated, instrumental version of "Kiss Me" would serve as the theme for ''

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- ...

'' 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

– vocals, spoken word *

– piano, organ *

– guitar *

Ollie E. Brown Ollie E. Brown (sometimes credited as simply Ollie Brown) (born April 20, 1953) is an American drummer, percussionist, record producer, and high-school basketball coach. A prolific session musician, Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in ...

– drums *Rudy Johnson – flute, saxophone *

Sylvester Rivers Sylvester Rivers (born October 28, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, pianist and producer, based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, he has recorded with numerous major artists including Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson ...

– piano *Alexandra Richman – piano, synthesizer *

Michael Boddicker Michael Lehmann Boddicker (born January 19, 1953) is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. He is a three times National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S.) Most Valuable Player "Synthesi ...

– synthesizer *George Bohannon – trombone

External links

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At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings Discogs page
{{Authority control Bill Cosby albums 1974 albums Stax Records albums