Why Is There Air?
1965 live album by Bill Cosby
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| Live album by Bill Cosby | ||||
| Released | August 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 1965 Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
| Genre | Stand-up comedy | |||
| Length | 39:53 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Allan Sherman, Roy Silver | |||
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Why Is There Air? (1965) is Bill Cosby's third album. It was recorded at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
The final track, "Hofstra", is an expanded re-telling of the "TV Football" routine from Cosby's second album, I Started Out as a Child. "I played for Temple University, and it's the truth," he says, "Don't keep asking 'Did you really play?' Yes, I really played. At one time I had a beautiful body."
Track listing
Side one
- Kindergarten – 8:15
- Personal Hygiene – 1:04
- Shop – 3:10
- Baby – 3:49
- Driving in San Francisco – 3:45
Side two
- $75 Car – 7:40
- The Toothache – 4:10
- Hofstra – 8:00
Legacy
Jerry Seinfeld has cited this album as a major influence, stating that it "drove [him] crazy" and inspired his career as a comedian.
References
- ^ Why Is There Air? at AllMusic
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- Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! (1963)
- I Started Out as a Child (1964)
- Why Is There Air? (1965)
- Wonderfulness (1966)
- Revenge (1967)
- To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968)
- 200 M.P.H. (1968)
- It's True! It's True! (1969)
- 8:15 12:15 (1969)
- Sports (1969)
- Live: Madison Square Garden Center (1970)
- When I Was a Kid (1971)
- For Adults Only (1971)
- Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby (1972)
- Fat Albert (1973)
- My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do? (1977)
- Bill's Best Friend (1978)
- Bill Cosby: Himself (1982)
- Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand (1986)
- Oh, Baby! (1991)
- 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)
- State of Emergency (2009)
- The Best of Bill Cosby (1969)
- More of the Best of Bill Cosby (1970)
- Bill (1973)
- Down Under (1975)
- "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)" (1967)
- The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71)
- The New Bill Cosby Show (1972-73)
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–85)
- Cos (1976)
- The Cosby Show (1984–92)
- A Different World (1987–93)
- The Cosby Mysteries (1994–95)
- Cosby (1996–2000)
- Little Bill (1999–2004)
- Fatherhood (2004–05)
films and specials
- Himself (1983)
- Bill Cosby 77 (unreleased)
- Fatherhood (1986)
- Pound Cake speech (2004)
- Tetragrammaton Records
- Collection of African-American art
- Andrea Constand lawsuit
- We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
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