| ...And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) | ||||
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| Box set by | ||||
| Released | October 17, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | September 1968–October 17, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 450:06 | |||
| Label | Warner Archives/Rhino/Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Robert Marchese Richard Pryor David Banks Biff Dawes | |||
| Richard Pryor chronology | ||||
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| 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 box set was re-issued in 2013 without the first and last discs as The Warner Bros. Albums (1974-1983).[3]
Background
The collection includes a 76-page booklet, eight CDs released on Warner Bros. between 1968 and 1983, and 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)
Track listing
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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