Bill Cosby - To Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With
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Artist: Bill CosbyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-12-08
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Baseball
- Conflict
- The Losers
- The Apple
- To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
Free Music Notes for To Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With
Free Music Review: Includes possibly his best bit ever
Hit: 5 Stars
Recorded at the Chicago Public Auditorium, January 1968, this disc gives us two facets of Bill Cosby: One, the observational comic, and two, the gifted story teller. And I have to say, truthfully, this may have gotten only four stars from me if it didn't change gears by the last track.
The first bit has him telling of playing sports; a very quick reference to playing football, and a slightly longer bit about playing baseball and being beaned by a wild pitch. Everybody who has even played a pick-up game in the back yard can identify with this. He then goes on a little about the conflict between the mind and the body; how the mind will ignore the body in critical situations. It's short, but will make you laugh.
"The Losers" is about his two daughters (this was recorded before his son was born), and this is where the disc starts to pick up steam. Despite the harsh title of this track, he is a doting parent, just crazy in love with his daughters, and even if you aren't a parent (I'm not; I'm an uncle, but there are kids in this house), this bit does strike a chord if you even help with raising a little kid.
"The Apple," a funny telling of the Adam and Eve story, is slightly out of place here; the material which preceeds and follows it is rooted in modern life, but it still isn't bad. It's just a typical comedian's take on the difference between the sexes, women being manipulative and men being horn-dogs. It's a good bit, just a little out of place.
Track 5: Holy crap, is this funny. It's the half-hour title track, "To Russell...," about having to sleep in the same bed as his younger brother every night. Though it is Cosby, alone on a stage, there are three characters featured: Bill himself, his brother Russell, and their father. Early in this segment he talks of his mother, but the story itself focuses on the three males in the house. He voices all three, and it has to be, without a doubt, one of the funniest comedy bits of all time. This is not an exaggeration. I will write this on the assumption the reader hasn't heard this before, and if you haven't, you don't know what you're missing. As the story unfolds, young Bill is playing cruel mind games with Russell, and this escalates into a physical fight. I have heard this hundreds of times over the years, and I STILL laugh very loudly at this. As the night wears on, they are fighting over the covers and everything else, interrupted by the dramatic entrance of their father, and this visit from the parents' room is the first of several. And, apparently, this went on every night. It's a timeless bit, and it never gets old.
I don't care what your entertainment tastes are, no music library (this isn't music, I know; you know what I mean) is complete without this. Again, it's Cosby, possibly at his funniest.
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Cosby shot to #7 with this 1968 LP, earning huge laughs with these quirky-yet familiar-tales of youthful travails: Baseball; Conflict; The Losers; The Apple , and the epic title routine!Miscellaneous Music CDs
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