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Why Is There Air

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Released
  
August 1965

Length
  
39:53

Genre
  
Stand-up comedy

Label
  
Warner Bros.

Recorded
  
1965 Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada

Producer
  
Allan Sherman, Roy Silver

Why Is There Air? (1965) is Bill Cosby's third album. It was recorded at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Contents

The final track, "Hofstra", is an expanded re-telling of the "TV Football" routine from Cosby's second album, I Started Out as a Child.

Side one

  1. Kindergarten – 8:15
  2. Personal Hygiene – 1:04
  3. Shop – 3:10
  4. Baby – 3:49
  5. Driving in San Francisco – 3:45

Side two

  1. $75 Car – 7:40
  2. The Toothache – 4:10
  3. Hofstra – 8:00

References

Why Is There Air? Wikipedia