Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band!

Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band!
Studio album by Bill Cosby
Released October 24, 1968
Recorded February 15, 1968
Genre rhythm and blues
Length 35:57
Label Warner Bros.
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Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968) is the ninth 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.

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".

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:20
  2. Sunny (Hebb) – 3:26
  3. Reach Out (I'll Be There) (Dozier, Holland) – 3:44
  4. (I'm A) Road Runner (Dozier, Holland) – 3:33
  5. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Jagger/Richards) – 2:41
  6. Get Out of My Life, Woman (Toussaint) – 2:50

Side two

  1. Hooray for the Salvation Army Band (Cosby, Smith) – 3:06
  2. Funky North Philadelphia (Lee) – 2:38
  3. Hold On, I'm a Comin' (Hayes, Porter) – 2:36
  4. Ursalena (Cosby, Smith) – 2:36
  5. Time Brings About a Change (Carmichael, Cosby, Lee) – 3:12
  6. Stop, Look & Listen (Lee, Telf) – 3:15

References

  1. ^ Burke, Brandon. Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! at Allmusic
Bill Cosby
Comedy albums
Music albums
Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (1967)  • Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968)  • Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971)  • Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1971)  • Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (1972)  • At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings (1974)  • Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976)  • Disco Bill (1977)  • Where You Lay Your Head (1990)  • My Appreciation (1991)  • Hello Friend: To Ennis, With Love (1997)  • Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby - The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (2004)  • Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby - The New Mixes Vol. 1 (2004)  • State of Emergency (2009)  • Keep Standing (2010)
Compilations
The Best of Bill Cosby (1969)  • More of the Best of Bill Cosby (1970)  • Bill (1973)  • Down Under (1975)  • Cosby and the Kids (1986)  • At His Best (1994)  • 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bill Cosby (2001)  • The Bill Cosby Collection (2004)
Singles
"Little Ol' Man (Uptight—Everything's Alright)" (1967)  • "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" (1970)  • "I Luv Myself Better Than I Luv Myself" (1976)  • "Yes, Yes, Yes" (1976)
Television
I Spy (1965-1968)  • The Bill Cosby Show (1969-1971)  • The Electric Company (1971-1977)  • The New Bill Cosby Show (1972)  • Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1985)  • The Cosby Show (1984-1992)  • A Different World (1987-1993) • The Cosby Mysteries (1994-1995)  • Cosby (1996-2000)  • Little Bill (1999-2004)  • Fatherhood (2004-2005)
Books
Fatherhood (1986)  • Time Flies (1987)  • Love and Marriage (1989)  • Childhood (1991)  • Kids Say the Darndest Things (1998)  • Congratulations! Now What?: A Book for Graduates. (1999)  • American Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge (2000, w/ Allen, Dwight William)  • Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy (2001, w/ Booth, George)  • I Am What I Ate ... and I'm Frightened!!!: And Other Digressions from the Doctor of Comedy (2003)  • Friends of a Feather: One of Life's Little Fables (2003, w/ Cosby, Erika)  • Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors (2007, w/ Poussaint, Alvin F.)  • I Didn't Ask to be Born, But I'm Glad I Was (2011)