Revenge (Bill Cosby album)

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Revenge
Warner Bros.
Bill Cosby chronology
Wonderfulness
(1966)
Revenge
(1967)
Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings
(1967)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic
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Revenge (1967) is the fifth album by comedian

R&B chart and #2 on the magazine's Pop album chart
.

Background

Like earlier albums such as I Started Out as a Child and Wonderfulness, this album features several anecdotes based on Cosby's childhood memories. It also serves to introduce Fat Albert, one of his most enduring characters.

The track "Buck Buck" contains Cosby's first recorded mention of Fat Albert, his Philadelphia childhood friend who would later become the basis for the hit cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids; Albert's signature cry "Hey! Hey! Hey!", a trademark of the later TV series, is also heard for the first time. Old Weird Harold, another of Cosby's friends/characters, figures prominently in the "9th Street Bridge" routine.

Track listing

Side one

  1. Revenge – 6:00
  2. Two Daughters – 5:10
  3. Two Brothers – 2:54
  4. The Tank – 1:36
  5. Smoking – 2:56
  6. Wives – 2:37

Side two

  1. Cool Covers – 4:22
  2. 9th St. Bridge – 5:09
  3. Buck, Buck – 9:13
  4. Planes – 2:03

See also

  • Buck buck
  • List of number-one R&B albums of 1967 (U.S.)

References

  1. AllMusic

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