“Hikky-Burr” is the theme song to the 1969 television show The Bill Cosby Show. It was originally released under the artist name Bill Cosby with The Bunions Bradford Band. Jones later included it on his 1971 album Smackwater Jack.
Cosby went on to record more music with The Bunions Bradford Band i...
Ooh Lord
Hikky-burr
Hikky-burr burr
Ooh lord
I'll have some smack
Gulp
Ah, ha ha
Yeah
Ooh Lord
Woooh
Ah ha ha
Swallow a lot a stuff
Ha ha
Wooh
Haaa
Wo wo
Go get some, uh, you know em' uh, you get a half a
Pound of a small ribs?
And a cup full of reazinrizin
And a throw em' on the ground and roll em' up
And then ya get some radish
Eat em' up
All around your face
Hikky-burr
Hikky hikky-burr, burr
Ooh lord
I tell you
You get some uh, have you ever had any rozinrizin
That's good, rozinrizin
And uh get a bottle of spalsi
And you in there
Look and yourself and say
Ooh lord
Hikky-burr, hikky-burr, hikky-burr, hikky-burr, hikky-burr, hikky-burr burr
Ooh Lord
Ah ha ha
Wooh Let me tell you
Wooh
Yeah, I know
Hikky-Burr was written by Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby.
Hikky-Burr was produced by Quincy Jones.
Quincy told Billboard magazine:
So we’re shooting out at Warner Brothers, [Bill Cosby]’s shooting the show and I’m doing the music. I said I’d like to improvise the scoring. We had a regular band of great musicians, Ray Brown and Paul Humphrey and all these guys. And [then] we’d have Oscar Peterson...