I Am the Greatest!

by Muhammad Ali

I Am the Greatest! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 August 1963
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:58
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'I Am the Greatest!' captures the twenty-one-year-old Cassius Clay performing boasts and comic verse for a live audience of two hundred. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Performance, and includes Sam Cooke's appearance on 'The Gang's All Here' alongside Clay's cover of 'Stand by Me'.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal, storytelling, witty, live, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Round 1: I Am the Greatest 3:15
  2. Round 2: I Am the Double Greatest 4:30
  3. Round 3: Do You Have to Ask? 3:39
  4. Round 4: "I Have Written a Drama," He Said Playfully. 7:06
  5. Round 5: Will the Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down 4:36
  6. Round 6: Funny You Should Ask 2:40
  7. Round 7: 2138 4:12
  8. Round 8: The Knockout 4:05
  9. Afterpiece (See Round 1) 3:27
  10. I Am the Greatest 2:13
  11. Stand by Me 2:11
  12. The Gang's All Here 3:04

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