I've continued my chronological trip through Bill Cosby's 60's and early 70's comedy albums and am enjoying them immensely. I mentioned before that as a teenager I felt their quality began to drop off by the late sixties. As I work my way through the Cosby albums now, I am finding that I don't agree at all with the opinion I formed back then (or at least with my memory of that opinion). I don't find a great difference in his style as we get to the end of the 60s. He does spend more time mining the humor to be found in the "war" between men and women. At age 15 I may not have found that topic particularly interesting, preferring he stick to subjects like go-carts and giant chicken hearts.
I was just listening to his final Warner Brothers LP: "It's True! It's True!" There's a short routine on it called "Spanish Fly" which I had completely forgotten about (because, among other reasons, I haven't heard it in at least thirty-five years). Since it concerns I Spy and "Bob", and even includes a brief impression of Sheldon Leonard, I thought it would be fun to post here.
I'm trying out a different file hosting service (4shared). The link below leads you to a page from which you can download the audio .mp3 file. You may have to wait a few seconds for all the file information to load. There should be a download button a bit more than half way down the page.
http://www.4shared.com/file/20038410/8fd94eaa/spanish.html
Jimmy
