Bill Cosby. Comedian. Actor. Pioneer of psychedelic music.

Who else but the Cos could add such a peanut butter crunch/Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids feel to this groundbreaking Lennon/McCartney composition? Certainly no one on the “I Am Sam” original motion picture soundtrack.

Released as the lead track on 1968’s “Bill Cosby Sings Hooray For The Salvation Army Band!”, Cos’s second music album is looser than 1967’s “Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings”, yet never reaches the absurd majesty of tracks like “Rudy” off 1977’s unfairly overlooked “Disco Bill”.

Check back later for Richard Pryor’s “Strawberry Fields Forever” and Redd Foxx’s epic cover of the entire “Their Satanic Majesty’s Request” LP.