Not Ready For Prime Time Players - Saturday Night Live 1976

Chevy Chase,Jane Curtin, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Laraine Newman,Garrett Morris	Birth Name	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

Don Pardo, Howard Shore, Lily Tomlin, Robert King, Peter Boyle, Anne Beatts, Paul Simon, Bill Wendell, Richard Pryor, Buck Henry	Birth Name	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

The "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" are the cast of Saturday Night Live, with those on this album being the original members. The Wikipedia entry lists all cast members and other bits of information.

Trivia: Saturday Night Live youngest cast members

Performer	Age when joined show	Tenure
Anthony Michael Hall	17 years old	1985–1986
Eddie Murphy	19 years old	1980–1984
Robert Downey, Jr.	20 years old	1985–1986
Abby Elliott	21 years, 5 months	2008–2012
Julia Louis-Dreyfus	21 years, 8 months	1982–1985
Sarah Silverman	22 years, 9 months	1993–1994
Jay Pharoah	22 years, 11 months	2010–present

01  Gerald Ford - Chevy Chase 1:19
02  Opening – Don Pardo, Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band 0:36
03a Monologue - Lily Tomlin 2:20
03b Segue- Don Pardo
04  Speed - Robert King, Anne Beatts 1:01
05a Bedtime Story - Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner 2:36
05b Segue - Don Pardo, Band
06  Shimmer - Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase 1:27
07  Gun Control - Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Laraine Newman 4:42
08a Segue - Don Pardo, Band
08b Fondue - Garrett Morris 1:29
09  Dueling Brandos - Don Pardo, Peter Boyle, John Belushi, Band 1:49
10  Anna Freud - Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman 2:15
11a Bees On Parade - Paul Simon, Band 0:44
11b Promo - Don Pardo Promo

12  Weekend Update 1 - Don Pardo, Chevy Chase 3:20
13  Spud - Bill Wendell 1:01
14  Weekend Update 2 - Chevy Chase 1:06
15  Weatherman - Chevy Chase, John Belushi 1:54
16  Emily Litella - Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner 1:20
17a News For The Hard Of Hearing - Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris 0:42
17b Segue - Don Pardo, Band
18  Uvula - Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase 1:51
19  Jimmy Carter - Dan Aykroyd 1:57
20a Chevy's Girls - Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Band 2:36
20b Segue - Don Pardo
21  Fluckers - Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris 1:54
22  Word Association - Chevy Chase, Richard Pryor 2:24
23  Goodbyes - Buck Henry 0:26
24  Closing - Chevy Chase, Don Pardo, Band 0:47

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Richard Pryor - Evolution Revolution The Early Years 1966-1974 2005

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

Richard Pryor was seemingly funny right out of the womb, but it took him a while to become the best and bravest standup comic of his generation. Released in 1974, That Nigger's Crazy helped make the world aware of his pungent brilliance, and 1976's Bicentennial Nigger and 1979's Wanted: Live in Concert captured him at the very peak of his game, but Pryor had been knocking around for years before doing standup and acting, and Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) is a two-CD set that attempts to make sense of the earlier stages of Pryor's recording career. Pryor released his first album in 1968, and the earliest material here finds him in surprisingly toothless form, though there's an undertow of bitterness and rage that struggles to rise to the surface; as much as he tries to be Bill Cosby, there's an edge here that doesn't quite permit it (especially when he does bits about his childhood), and the truest moment comes when he answers a heckler asking for less improv and more straight jokes by saying, "Why don't you go to Las Vegas? They got millions of comics doing that." It's near the end of disc one that the Pryor we know begins to come out, in a long bit about his old neighborhood that rings of the funny but corrosive truth that would become his hallmark. Disc two is dominated by material from Pryor's first album for the underground "party record" label Laff, 1971's Craps (After Hours), which offers a crude (and crudely recorded) variation on the full-blown genius of That Nigger's Crazy; if it isn't Pryor at his very best, it's the first full-bodied expression of the genius that was to come. This set also includes much of the material from early tapes that leaked out in fits and starts over the better part of a decade on low-budget albums for Laff and similar labels, while the discography in the liner booklet attempts to sort out the confusion these albums have always caused for Pryor completists. If you want to hear Richard Pryor when he was the greatest standup comic on Earth, you should pick up Rhino's superb The Richard Pryor Anthology: 1968-1992, or dig deep for the nine-disc box set ...And It's Deep, Too!: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings. But if you want to hear how Pryor got there, Evolution/Revolution documents the journey very well indeed, and it's very funny and revealing stuff.

Disc One: Evolution (1966–1968)
01 Peoria
02 Improv, Pt. 1
03 Heart & Brain
04 Taxi Cabs & Subways
05 Playboy Club
06 Rumpelstiltskin
07 Slippin' In Poo Poo
08 Birth Control
09 Nigger Babies
10 Faith Healer
11 Black Power
12 I Feel
13 Jail
14 Prison Play (aka Black Ben The Blacksmith)
15 Directions
16 Movie Stars In The Bathroom
17 War Movies
18 The Army
19 Hippy Dippys
20 Hank's Place
21 Improv, Pt. 2
22 Mankind

Recorded live at:The Hungry I, San Francisco, CA, February 1966 (Tracks 1, 2)
unknown venue, July 15, 1967 (Tracks 4, 5)
P.J.'s, Hollywood, CA, May 24 & 25, 1968 (Tracks 7-11)
The Troubador, West Hollywood, April 1968 (Tracks 14, 15, 21, 22) and July 26-29, 1968 (remainder)

Disc Two: Revolution (1971–1974)
23 Prelude
24 Gettin' High
25 Fuck From Memory
26 Big Tits
27 Gettin' Some
28 The President
29 Asshole
30 The Line-Up
31 Masturbating
32 Religion
33 Black Preachers
34 Being Born
35 Blow Our Image
36 Blackjack
37 I Spy Cops
38 Sugar Ray
39 White Folks
40 Indians
41 Ass Wupin'
42 Got A Dollar
43 Pres' Black Baby
44 Doope
45 Wino Panthers
46 After Hours
47 280 Pound Ass
48 Crap Game
49 Insurance Man
50 Black And Proud
51 Gettin' The Nut
52 Fuck The Faggot
53 Jackin' Off
54 Snappin' Pussy
55 Fartin'
56 Wattstax Monologue: Niggers, The Handshake, Rummage Sale/Stylin'
   Whitey, Justifiable Homicide, Super Nigger, Marijawani
57 Whorehouse, Pt. 1
58 Whorehouse, Pt. 2
59 Niggers & Italians
60 Jim Brown (alternate version)
61 Black Films
62 Jesus Saves
63 Street Corner Wino (Wino & Junkie intro)
64 Wino & Junkie
65 Interview

Disc Two recorded live at:
The Redd Foxx Club, Hollywood, CA, January 1971 (Tracks 24-55—the entire Craps (After Hours) album)
Laney College, Oakland, CA, February 25, 1971 (Track 57)
Basin Street West, San Francisco, CA, February 26, 1971 (Tracks 58, 64)
unknown venue, Los Angeles, CA, May 30, 1971 (Track 23)
The Summit Club, Hollywood, CA, October 8, 1972, for use in the motion picture Wattstax (Track 56)
The Comedy Store, Hollywood, CA, October 29-November 1, 1973 (Tracks 59-63)
unknown location in San Francisco Bay Area, Fall 1974 (Track 65)

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Richard Pryor - Wanted, Live In Concert 1979

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 New Year's Eve
02 White And Black People
03 Black Funerals
04 Discipline
05 Heart Attacks
06 Ali
07 Dogs And Horses
08 Jim Brown
09 Monkeys
10 Kids
11 Nature
12 Things In The Woods
13 Deer Hunter
14 Chinese Food
15 Being Sensitive

Richard Pryor - And It's Deep, Too!, Complete Warner Bros. Recordings 1968-1992 2000

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

You can't say enough good things about legendary comedian Richard Pryor. Few comedians in history have been able to poke fun at society through jokes and witty observations as brilliantly as Pryor did back in the 60's and 70's.


Disc 1: Richard Pryor
Recorded live at The Troubadour, West Hollywood, California, September 1968.
From "Richard Pryor", released November 1968.
01 Super Nigger
02 Girls
03 Farting
04 Prison Play
05 T.V. Panel Show
06 Smells
07 Army Life
08 Frankenstein
Disc 2: That Nigger's Crazy
Recorded live at Don Cornelius' Soul Train, San Francisco, California, early 1974.
Recorded by Haji Sound Recording Co., Los Angeles, California.
From "That Nigger's Crazy", released May 1974.
09 I Hope I'm Funny
10 Nigger With Seizure
11 Have Your Ass Home by 11 00
12 Black and White Life Styles
13 Exorcist
14 Wino Dealing With Dracula
15 Flying Saucers
16 Back Down, The
17 Black Man/White Woman
18 Niggers Vs. The Police
19 Wino and JunkieDisc 3: ...Is It Something I Said?
Track 1 to 11
Recorded live at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 26 May 1975.
From "...Is It Something I Said?", released 25 July 1975.
Track 12 (Bonus track)
Recorded live at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, May 1975.
From "Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits", released 27 May 1977.

20 Eulogy
21 Shortage of White People
22 New Niggers
23 Cocaine
24 Just Us
25 Mudbone (Intro)
26 Mudbone Little Feets
27 When Your Woman Leaves You
28 Goodnight Kiss, The
29 Women Are Beautiful
30 Our Text for Today
31 Ali - (bonus track)
Disc 4: Bicentennial Nigger
Track 1 to 8
Recorded live at The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, California, July 1976.
Track 9
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, February 1976.
All tracks from "Bicentennial Nigger", released 10 September 1976.
32 Hillybilly
33 Black and White Women
34 Our Gang
35 Bicentennial Prayer
36 Black Hollywood
37 Mudbone Goes to Hollywood
38 Chinese Restaurant
39 Acid
40 Bicentennial Nigger
Disc 5: Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert (Part 1)
Track 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8
Recorded live at the City Center Of Music And Drama, New York, New York, 19 September 1978.
Track 2, 7
Recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 3 September 1978.
Track 4
Recorded live at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, 28 September 1978.
All tracks from "Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert" released 17 November 1978.
41 New Year's Eve
42 White and Black People
43 Black Funerals
44 Discipline
45 Heart Attacks
46 Ali
47 Keeping in Shape
48 Leon Spinks
Disc 6: Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert (Part 2)
Track 1, 3 to 6, 9
Recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 3 September 1978.
Track 2, 8
Recorded live at the City Center Of Music And Drama, New York, New York, 19 September 1978.
Track 7
Recorded live at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, 28 September 1978.
All tracks from "Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert", released 17 November 1978.
49 Dogs and Horses
50 Jim Brown
51 Monkeys
52 Kids
53 Nature
54 Things in the Woods
55 Deer Hunter
56 Chinese Food
57 Being Sensitive
Disc 7: Live On The Sunset Strip
Track 1, 2, 4, 6, 7
Recorded live at the Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California, December 1981.
Track 3
Recorded live at the Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California, October 1981.
Track 5
Recorded live at The Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California, 5 January 1982.
All tracks recorded with The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California.
All tracks from "Live On The Sunset Strip", released 24 March 1982.
58 Women
59 Prison
60 Africa
61 Mafia Club
62 Mudbone
63 Freebase
64 HospitalDisc 8: Here And Now
Track 1 to 14
Recorded live at The Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 August 1983.
Edited at The L.A. Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Mastered at Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California.
From "Here And Now", released 12 October 1983.
Track 15 (Bonus track)
Dialogue recorded for use in the motion picture release of "Here And Now", recorded at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, 5 June 1983.
65 Here and Now
66 Southern Hospitality
67 Slavery
68 Motherland
69 I Met the President
70 Fire Exit
71 Mudbone, Part 1
72 Mudbone, Part 2
73 Inebriated
74 One Night Stands
75 One Day at a Time
76 I Like Women
77 Being Famous
78 I Remember
79 Interview - previously unreleased, bonus track
Disc 9: That "African-American" Is STILL Crazy - Good Shit From The Vaults
Track 1 to 3, 9, 12
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, February 1976.
Track 4, 5, 7
Recorded live at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, May 1975.
Track 6
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, November 1973.
Track 8, 11
Recorded live at The Summit, Hollywood, California, April 1973.
Track 10
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, October 1973.
Track 13 to 15, 18
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, October 1981.
Track 16, 17, 19
Recorded live at The Comedy Store, Hollywood, California, June 1983.
Track 20
Recorded live at the Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California, October 1992.
All tracks previously unreleased.
80 Introduction - previously unreleased
81 Mudbone Goes to Hollywood - previously unreleased, alternate version
82 Fame, Part 1 - previously unreleased
83 Black Messiah - previously unreleased
84 Life - previously unreleased
85 Death - previously unreleased
86 My Funeral - previously unreleased
87 Acid - previously unreleased, alternate version
88 Patty Hearst - previously unreleased
89 Fighting - previously unreleased
90 Law, The - previously unreleased
91 History Lesson - previously unreleased
92 I Don't Give a Fuck - previously unreleased
93 Fame, Part 2 - previously unreleased
94 Therapy - previously unreleased
95 WASPs - previously unreleased
96 Getting Older - previously unreleased
97 God - previously unreleased
98 Dog - previously unreleased
99 MS - previously unreleased

	Standup	9 CDs, 76 page booklet Warner Bros. Records Inc. & Rhino Entertainment Company
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Richard Pryor - Anthology 1968 - 1992 2002

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

Rhino's 2002 release The Anthology: 1968-1992 is essentially the highlights from their seminal 2000 box set, And It's Deep Too!, which contained the complete recordings (more or less) of Richard Pryor, the greatest comedian of his time and one of the great cultural forces of the 20th century. Since this is a clear case of recycling, it could be argued by some curmudgeons that there simply isn't a point behind this release, since it was all reissued. They're wrong, of course, since this not only does an excellent job of rounding up much of the greatest and best-known of his classic albums, but it provides a succinct, welcoming introduction to a large body of work -- something that simply couldn't be said about the lavish box set, no matter how great it is. Here, on the course of two discs (whose selections lean heavily on the breakthrough That Nigger's Crazy and Wanted/Richard Pryor Live in Concert), neophytes get a needed crash course in Pryor, not only through the great material, but with a terrific essay from Walter Mosley (originally published in the box), plus a nice introduction from Reggie Collins and Steve Pokorny that gently (and deservedly) plugs the larger set. If you have that set, you don't need this, but if you're curious, start here and don't be surprised if you invest in And It's Deep Too! not long afterward.  Source: AllMusic

01 Super Nigger 3:15

02 Prison Play 9:10

03 Nigger With a Seizure 5:24

04 Have Your Ass Home by 11:00 2:30

05 Black and White Life Styles 3:42

06 Exorcist 1:53

07 Niggers Vs. The Police 1:41

08 Wino Dealing With Dracula 2:06

09 Wino and Junkie 7:05

10 Mudbone (Intro) 5:42

11 Mudbine - Little Feets 11:45

12 When Your Woman Leave You 6:27

13 Cocaine 4:08

14 Acid 4:53

15 Bicentennial Prayer 6:38

16 Bicentennial Nigger 2:24

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17 New Year's Eve 3:50

18 Discipline 7:57

19 Heart Attacks 8:08

20 Monkeys 4:03

21 Being Sensitive 7:52

22 Africa 10:30

23 Freebase 8:12

24 Hospital 10:14

25 I Like Women 6:20

26 MS 10:36

	Rhino 78-405
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Richard Pryor - Kraft Music Hall Special 1964

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

 

Kraft Music Hall special, 1964

01 Soundtrack

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01 Video file

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Richard Pryor - Outrageous 1979

Richard Pryor	Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor	Peoria, Illinois, USA
Dec 01 1940 – Dec 10 2005 age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

Richard Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of his era: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years." This legacy can be attributed, in part, to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy. As Bill Cosby reportedly once said, "Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it."   Source: Wikipedia

01 The Operation
02 Throw Up
03 Improvisation
04 Looters
05 Bathroom
06 White Chicks
07 True Story Of JC

08 I Feel
09 Fighting
10 Jail
11 Hi Way 16
12 Moses   

	Laff Records A-206
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Various Artists - 25 Years Of Recorded Comedy 1974

Carl Reiner	Carl Reiner	Bronx, New York, USA
Mar 20 1922 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

 

Mel Brooks	Melvin Kaminsky	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jun 28 1926 -	Fan Site	Wikipedia

Mike Nichols	Michael Igor Peschkowsky	Berlin, Germany
Nov 06 1931 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Elaine May	Elaine Berlin aka Esther Dale	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 21 1932 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

David Frye	David Shapiro	Brooklyn, New York USA
Nov 21 1933 - Jan 24 2011 age 77	Official Site	Wikipedia

Stan Freberg, Eddie Lawrence, Allen & Rossi, Jonathan Winters, Bill Dana, Allan Sherman, Shelly Berman, Vaughn Meader, Gabe Kaplan, Lily Tomlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Cheech & Chong, Firesign Theatre, National Lampoon, Monty Python	Birth name	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 Stan Freberg - St. George And The Dragonet (1963)
02 Eddie Lawrence - The Old Philosopher (1956)
03 Marty Allen & Steve Rossi - The Punch Drunk Fighter (1963)
04 Excerpts From Pardon My Blooper (1954)
05 Jonathan Winters - Oldest Airline Sterardess "Maude Frickert" (1961)
06 Bill Dana (As Jose Jimenez) - The Astronaut (1961)
07 Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (1963)
08 Shelly Berman - Nichol's Department Store (1959)
09 Mike Nichols & Elaine May - The Telephone (1961)
10 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - The L.M.N.O.P. Ad Agency (1963)
11 The First Family (Featuring Vaughn Meader) - Economy Lunch (1962)
12 David Frye - Prologue / The Dick Nixon Show (1971)
13 Gabriel Kaplan - Ed Sullivan / Ed Sullivan (1974)
14 Monty Python - Argument Clinic (1972)
15 Lily Tomlin - Mr. Veedle (1971)
16 Richard Pryor - Just Us (1975)
17 Lenny Bruce - Religions Inc. (1958)
18 Cheech & Chong - Sargent Stadanko (1973)
19 The Firesign Theatre - High School Madness (1970)
20 National Lampoon - Deteriorata

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