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| ...And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) | ||||
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| Box set by Richard Pryor | ||||
| Released | October 17, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | September 1968–October 17, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | + 7 hours | |||
| Label | Warner Archives/Rhino/Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Robert Marchese Richard Pryor David Banks Biff Dawes |
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| Richard Pryor chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [1] |
| Robert Christgau | A+ [2] |
...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 Walter Mosley's 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:
- Richard Pryor (1968);
- That Nigger's Crazy (1974);
- ...Is It Something I Said? (1975);
- Bicentennial Nigger (1976);
- Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert (1979);
- Live On The Sunset Strip (1982)
- Here And Now (1983)
- That "African-American" Is STILL Crazy: Good Shit From the Vaults ('70s, '80s, and '90s) (bonus CD)
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.
The box set went out of print sometime after and was later re-issued in 2013, albeit without the first and last discs, as The Warner Bros. Albums (1974-1983).[3]
Track listing
| Disc One – Richard Pryor | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Two – That Nigger's Crazy | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Three – ...Is It Something I Said? | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Eulogy" | 3:50 |
| 2. | "Shortage of White People" | 1:24 |
| 3. | "New Niggers" | 4:00 |
| 4. | "Cocaine" | 4:10 |
| 5. | "Just Us" ((Credited on the album as being "stolen" from Paul Mooney)) | 3:49 |
| 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 Four – Bicentennial Nigger | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Five & Six – Wanted: Live in Concert | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Seven – Live on the Sunset Strip | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Eight – Here and Now | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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 Nine – That "African-American" Is STILL Crazy—Good Shit From The Vaults (exclusive Bonus Disc) | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 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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