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No matter how you feel about Bill Cosby, given recent events, and where you might fall in your beliefs, it is sometimes necessary to separate the artist from the art. From 1963's Very Funny Fellow Right through 1968's Russell My Brother LP's, Bill racked up an incredible catalog of masterpiece comedy albums, all of which were my only spoken word albums, nestled in with my Beatles, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Mamas & Papas, Association, Grass Roots, and eventually Airplane, Dead, and Doors albums. Cosby albums were keepers, often brought out to relive gags and laughs with friends and family. His humor worked for all ages, all genders and ethnicities, Bill Cosby WAS a very funny fellow, Right!My vinyl LPs were long gone from literally being worn down to the plastic scraping sound of a needle in a moat, so a few years ago, before the recent revelations began to creep into the news, and I set out to replace all of them with CD's and did so in one fowl swoop, scooping them all up from Amazon for a terrific price. These CD's have the quality of warm analogue sound the vinyl LP's had, no digital Doppler Shift here, you will be happy with the sound as soon as you hit play!After "the news" my wife and I both had to decide if we had somehow "contributed" to a bad cause. This my friends is faulty thinking. We enjoy our entertainment hopefully without worry of perpetrating malfeasance or injustice in the world. Should we avoid all movies by a certain actor or director because they made insidious comments in a drunken stupor and should we stop entertaining ourselves with the art of personalities when they exhibit, or are accused of exhibiting, criminal behavior? We, you and I, are the observers of the art and not the supporters per se, of the artist's demons. If that were the case, should all Jackson Pollock paintings be destroyed because he was a philandering, foul-mouthed, drunken womanizer who left his family nearly destitute my means of suicide and negligible homicide?I will step down from my soap box now. The fact is plain and simple, these classic Cosby albums are filled with non-stop laugh-out-loud stories which somehow have been kept from being "dated" because they reflect the growing up, coming of age, and relationship stories which are timeless by definition and delightful by sheer delivery. I choose to believe these albums were made during Bill Cosby's highest commitment to his art and to his audience, they certainly reflect that and each of these is a gem from start to finish with the greatest comedic observances you could find in "clean" comedy before the rise of the shock-comic who felt a need to swear with every sentence. Thank you for that Lenny, you won.These are the Bill Cosby albums that one may consider his Greatest Hits (in chronological order):BILL COSBY IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW, RIGHT!I STARTED OUT AS A CHILDWHY IS THERE AIR?WONDERFULNESSREVENGE200 MPHTO RUSSELL MY BROTHER, WHOM I SLEPT WITHIT'S TRUE! IT'S TRUE!

I remembered listening to the album with my friends when we were in Junior High School in the early 70's. We couldn't stop laughing! Over the years I mentioned it to my son (who's now 16). After exposing him to other Cosby performances on video and then live I found this CD. Now we laugh listening to it once in a while when driving. This is a classic Cosby performance from his younger days when driving fast and reminiscing about his own childhood were the main parts of his act, right around the Fat Albert years.

I purchased this and the other Bill Cosby CDs to replace the old albums I have stuck in a box in the closet.I was very sorry when Bill closed down his act as a standup comedian and went to television. We lost a lot of ingenius stories and great fun. He was never so funny on television as he was when telling one of these stories on stage.However, that is an old story, as went Bill, so didBob Newhart and Bill Dana. A lot of good talent lost to mediocre television shows.

After a couple of inconsistent initial recordings, Cosby found his niche and hit his stride with the "Revenge" record. What followed was string of excellent recordings, including this one, where he felt more relaxed by his success and broached topics that more adults could relate to. Extremely prompt shipment, very reasonable price, would do business with this seller anytime.

Cos was comedy in my youth. Despite his legal issues as well as the horrific crimes he perpetrated on so many women, his comedy from those years is about all I have left to cling to. Tears through the laughter....

I've been a fan of Bill Cosby since I was four years old. I grew up on his stuff. This was just one more CD I needed to complete my collection (still working on that). This is one of his better ones. the entire second side is devoted to Cos's exposure to the Mustang Cobra. Keeps you in stitches the whole time. And as usual, Cos is family friendly. May he live long, and keep us lauging!!

One of the funniest men that walks the planet Earth. I bought the cd for my Grandson so he can listen to uplifting, clean, humor. If not for Bill, who is there anymore for todays children in the US? I grew up listening to Bill, and Every generation can benefit from his stories.

Bill Cosby is without a doubt one of the funniest comedians who has ever cracked up a crowd. He doesn't do race-based humor (at least not in all the albums I gladly own), which makes him a comedian for everybody.