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I Started Out as a Child

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Released
  
November 1964

Length
  
30:42

Genre
  
Stand-up comedy

Label
  
Warner Bros.

I Started Out as a Child (1964)
  
Why Is There Air? (1965)

I Started Out as a Child is Bill Cosby's second album, released in 1964. It is the first Cosby album that features his childhood memories in his comic routines, but many of the tracks are still observational humor.

Contents

Recorded live at Mr. Kelly's in Chicago, Illinois, the album won the Grammy Award in 1965 for Best Comedy Album. It was added to the National Recording Registry in 2009.

Side one

  1. Sneakers – 1:56
  2. Street Football – 1:22
  3. The Water Bottle – 0:51
  4. Christmas Time – 1:44
  5. The Giant – 2:29
  6. Oops! – 0:58
  7. The Lone Ranger – 3:07
  8. Ralph Jameson – 1:53

Side two

  1. Medic – 3:45
  2. My Pet Rhinoceros – 0:46
  3. Half Man – 0:47
  4. Rigor Mortis – 2:47
  5. The Neanderthal Man – 3:16
  6. T.V. Football – 1:13
  7. Seattle – 3:48

References

I Started Out as a Child Wikipedia
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