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...And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) is a compilation of all of Richard Pryor's recordings with Warner Bros. Records. It contains material recorded between 1968 and 1992 and was released in 2000 through Rhino Entertainment. The collection won an award in the Grammy Awards of 2001 for best liner notes.

Background

The collection includes eight CDs released on Warner Bros. between 1968 and 1983: plus a ninth CD of previously unreleased material. These albums include:

His 1968 self-titled album contains conventional standup material. In contrast, his 1974 album That Nigger's Crazy featured the comedy style which made him famous focusing on racial issues with plenty of swearing. That album was a breakthrough for Pryor, going platinum, and winning a Grammy in the Grammy Awards of 1975 for Best Comedy Performance.

Is it Something I Said was another success critically, topping the Billboard black charts, going platinum and winning another Grammy for Best Comedy performance. Bicentennial Nigger won him his third Grammy award in three years and went top 5 in the black charts. Pryor won a fourth Grammy for Live On The Sunset Strip in 1982.

Pryor's career suffered a major setback in 1980 when he was badly burnt while freebasing cocaine, which he acknowledged in his "Live on Sunset Boulevard" performance. During this, he waved a lit match around, and stated, "This is Richard Pryor, Running down the street!" In 1986, Pryor announced that he had multiple sclerosis and this eventually led to his retirement as a standup comedian in 1992. This album features some material from his 1992 concerts.

In 1998, Richard Pryor won the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This album contains all of the material that earned him that award.

Track listing

Disc 1 - Richard Pryor
  1. "Super Nigger" - 3:16
  2. "Girls" - 3:25
  3. "Farting" - 2:02
  4. "Prison Play" - 9:12
  5. "T.V. Panel Show" - 7:09
  6. "Smells" - 2:43
  7. "Army Life" - 4:48
  8. "Frankenstein" - 0:56
Disc 2 - That Nigger's Crazy
  1. "I Hope I'm Funny" - 3:28
  2. "Nigger With A Seizure" - 5:24
  3. "Have Your Ass Home By 11:00" - 2:30
  4. "Black And White Lifestyles" - 3:43
  5. "Exorcist" - 1:53
  6. "Wino Dealing With Dracula" - 2:11
  7. "Flying Saucers" - 1:09
  8. "The Back Down" - 3:37
  9. "Black Man/White Woman" - 0:55
  10. "Niggers Vs. Police" - 1:42
  11. "Wino & Junkie" - 7:06
Disc 3 - ...Is It Something I Said?
  1. "Eulogy" - 3:50
  2. "Shortage of White People" - 1:24
  3. "New Niggers" - 4:00
  4. "Cocaine" - 4:10
  5. "Just Us" - 3:49 ((Credited on the album as being "stolen" from Paul Mooney))
  6. "Mudbone - Intro" - 5:45
  7. "Mudbone - Little Feets" - 11:50
  8. "When Your Woman Leaves You" - 6:30
  9. "The Goodnight Kiss" - 1:48
  10. "Women Are Beautiful" - 0:53
  11. "Our Text For Today" - 3:48
  12. "Ali" (Bonus Track) - 3:47
Disc 4 - Bicentennial Nigger
  1. "Hillbilly" - 2:15
  2. "Black and White Women" - 4:06
  3. "Our Gang" - 2:48
  4. "Bicentennial Prayer" - 6:42
  5. "Black Hollywood" - 5:25
  6. "Mudbone Goes to Hollywood" - 10:11
  7. "Chinese Restaurant" - 1:18
  8. "Acid" - 4:55
  9. "Bicentennial Nigger" - 2:25
Discs 5 & 6 - Wanted: Live in Concert
  1. "New Year's Eve" - 3:54
  2. "White And Black People" - 7:59
  3. "Black Funerals" - 2:55
  4. "Discipline" - 8:00
  5. "Heart Attacks" - 8:11
  6. "Ali" - 4:11
  7. "Keeping In Shape" - 6:48
  8. "Leon Spinks" - 5:09
  9. "Dogs And Horses" - 5:50
  10. "Jim Brown" - 4:43
  11. "Monkeys" - 4:05
  12. "Kids" - 3:50
  13. "Nature" - 3:31
  14. "Things In The Woods" - 3:13
  15. "Deer Hunter" - 3:02
  16. "Chinese Food" - 3:23
  17. "Being Sensitive" - 7:54
Disc 7 - Live on the Sunset Strip
  1. "Women" - 11:24
  2. "Prison" - 6:25
  3. "Africa" - 10:33
  4. "Mafia Club" - 6:04
  5. "Mudbone" - 7:38
  6. "Freebase" - 8:12
  7. "Hospital" - 10:17
Disc 8 - Here and Now
  1. "Here and Now" - 3:19
  2. "Southern Hospitality" - 1:38
  3. "Slavery" - 1:15
  4. "Motherland" - 6:38
  5. "I Met the President" - 4:15
  6. "Fire Exit" - 0:46
  7. "Mudbone (Part One)" - 6:24
  8. "Mudbone (Part Two)" - 4:40
  9. "Inebriated" - 5:54
  10. "One Night Stands" - 2:54
  11. "One Day at a Time" - 4:57
  12. "I Like Women" - 6:22
  13. "Being Famous" - 2:01
  14. "I Remember" - 1:36
  15. "Interview" (Bonus Track) - 22:43
Disc 9 - That "African-American" Is STILL Crazy—Good Shit From The Vaults (exclusive Bonus Disc)
  1. Introduction-Tom Dreesen
  2. Mudbone Goes To Hollywood (Alternate Version)
  3. Fame (Part 1)
  4. Black Messiah
  5. Life
  6. Death
  7. My Funeral
  8. Acid (Alternate Version)
  9. Patty Hearst
  10. Fighting
  11. The Law
  12. History Lesson
  13. I Don't Give A Fuck
  14. Fame (Part Two)
  15. Therapy
  16. W.A.S.P.'s
  17. Getting Older
  18. God
  19. Dog
  20. M.S.

References

  • "Richard Pryor." American Decades Gale Research, 1998; Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
  • "Richard Pryor" in Shirelle Phillips (editor) Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 24 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
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