Bill Cosby - I Started Out As a Child
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Artist: Bill CosbyEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sneakers
- Street Football
- The Water Bottle
- Christmas Time
- The Giant
- Oops!
- The Lone Ranger
- Ralph Jameson
- Medic
- My Pet Rhinoceros
- Half Man
- Rigor Mortis
- The Neanderthal Man
- T.V. Football
- Seattle
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Free Music Review: Long-lasting, good-hearted, world-uniting humor
Hit: 5 Stars
A long, long time ago, when I was a wee lad, I was a Cos fan. Listening to this wonderful 1964 collection of his sweet, everyman recollections from his own life, I find that I still am a Cos fan. This is the Cos that existed before Dr. Huxtable and before the big long stories -- Chicken Heart, Tonsils. Cos gives us a collection of short riffs on his life experiences. He jokes about the one kid in his group who owned with sneakers, and the humiliation of walking around with broken shoes. He tells of his days as a medic during WWII. He ruminates on the Lone Ranger from the subversive standpoint of Tonto and Silver, subtly moving our focus from the powerful white hero to the people and animals stuck doing his scut work. His story about waiting anxiously with his brother for Santa to come is funny and accessible to everyone.
In 1964, "nice" people did not talk about race. The closest a mainstream audience could get was to listen to a man of color talk about his childhood experiences. But just imaging an ordinary street populated by people with differently-colored skin was liberating and paradigm-destroying. His was a street on which black kids played the same football game as whites; his was a home in which a black father snores too loud; his was outrage and worry of a man being operated on by a doctor who makes a mistake. These are not experiences own by blacks or by whites, but by everyone. The laughter of the audience confirms the commonality of human experience shared by this black comedian and his (presumably) white or mixed audience. Hear the walls of racism begin to come down on this still-funny album -- and all without a single utterance about skin color. Amazing and still funny nearly a half-century after it was recorded!!
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Here's a slice of Cosby before he became a major television star. At this point in time, the main appeal of I Started Out as a Child is its innocence. Recorded live at a Chicago club in 1964, the disc is a product of a now-quaint American scene, as yet untouched by the radical social changes that were just around the corner. Cosby pulls in the listener by introducing his only mildly humorous stories in a warm, intimate tone. Then he switches to using a variety of animated voices and vocal sound effects to get laughs from a responsive audience. If you want to enjoy the gentle ambiance and warmth of another time, this CD is for you. However, Cosby's at-times charming, skilled performance isn't enough to make this dated material funny. --Fred CisternaMiscellaneous Music CDs
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