Released February 1968 Length 35:57 Release date February 1968 Genre Rhythm and blues | Recorded Late 1967 Artist Bill Cosby Label Rhino/Warner Bros. | |
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Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band!
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Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968) is the seventh album by Bill Cosby. This was his second studio album to feature his singing, and features less serious renditions (often with satirical lyrics written or improvised by Cosby) of then-current rock and soul hits. As on his previous, debut music album Silver Throat, he is backed by the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
Contents
The title track is actually a parody set to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", although Hendrix is not credited, while "Funky North Philadelphia" is also a parody of the Wilson Pickett song "Funky Broadway".
Side one
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:20
- Sunny (Hebb) – 3:26
- Reach Out (I'll Be There) (Dozier, Holland) – 3:44
- (I'm a) Road Runner (Dozier, Holland) – 3:33
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Jagger/Richards) – 2:41
- Get Out of My Life, Woman (Toussaint) – 2:50
Side two
- Hooray for the Salvation Army Band (Cosby, Smith) – 3:06
- Funky North Philadelphia (Lee) – 2:38
- Hold On, I'm a Comin' (Hayes, Porter) – 2:36
- Ursalena (Cosby, Smith) – 2:36
- Time Brings About a Change (Carmichael, Cosby, Lee) – 3:12
- Stop, Look & Listen (Lee, Telf) – 3:15
Songs
1Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band2:20
2Sunny3:26
3Reach Out I'll Be There3:44
References
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