Bill Cosby - Abuse (Part 1)

This, for the most part, consists of a psychedelic funk jam, augmented, if you will, by some experimental horn playing that's somewhat reminiscent of "George Fell into His French Horn" by the Beach Boys. If the music starts to sound more like noodling to you, go to 5:50 where the voice of Bunions Bradford (Bill) begins to cry in the wilderness, delivering a timely anti-drug message: "I don't need no bad drugs".

Note: Since this album gives multiple credits for each instrument played without track specification, I can't give a proper personnel for this track. However, a few names that rang bells for me are: Stix Hooper (best known as the drummer for the Crusaders), Willie Bobo (latin jazz timbales player, not featured on this track), and Joe Henderson (tenor saxophonist on many jazz sessions from the 60's-90's).

From Sussex Records, in all of its 1972 glory, Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown and the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band.

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• Bill
• Cosby
• Badfoot
• Brown
• Bunions
• Bradford
• Abuse
• funk
• jazz
• rock
• fusion
• Fat
• Albert
• Spy
• Electric
• Company
• Sesame
• Street

[spirit904]

It is a damn shame that only two people liked this and only 353 views.

[superAJ71]

@spirit904

I'm sure a lot of people don't even know this exists. And now that YouTube lets me post longer videos, part of me wants to repost it in its entirety; the second part is more like a slow blues jam.

[RXTVonline]

dope pusher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thedjybreel]

incredible song... I knew cosby was great

[alexbukkake71]

Got it on Vynal... AYE

[alexbukkake71]

Got it on Vynal... AYE

[ceedouble74]

this is the fucking bomb