Bicentennial Nigger - Composition

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Bicentennial Nigger is the sixth album by the American comedian Richard Pryor. David Banks produced the album, while Warner Bros. Records released the album in September 1976. It is often considered one of his most influential recordings.[2][3][4] The CD version of the album was released on 20 June 1989.[5] It won the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.[6]

Bicentennial Nigger

Live album by

Richard Pryor

Released

September 10, 1976

Recorded

July 1976 (see below)

Venue

Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, California

Genre

Stand-up comedy

Length

40:23

Label

Warner Bros.

Producer

David Banks

Richard Pryor chronology

L.A. Jail
(1976)

Bicentennial Nigger
(1976)

Wanted: Live in Concert
(1978)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album was recorded in July 1976 at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, with the exception of the title track, recorded at The Comedy Store in Hollywood in February 1976, location recording by Wally Heider Recording, engineer Biff Dawes. Album Cover design and Art direction by Kosh.

It ends with the words "I ain't never goin to forget".

Track listing

"Hillbilly" - 2:15
"Black and White Women" - 4:06
"Our Gang" - 2:48
"Bicentennial Prayer" - 6:42
"Black Hollywood" - 5:25
"Mudbone Goes to Hollywood" - 10:11
"Chinese Restaurant" - 1:18
"Acid" - 4:55
"Bicentennial Nigger" - 2:25

On cassette releases, "Acid" was moved to side one, after "Bicentennial Prayer," to make the content more even on each side of the tape.

References

Allmusic review
Tucker, Terrence T. (2017). "Direct from a Never Scared Bicentennial Nigger". Furiously Funny: Comic Rage in Late 20th Century African-American Literature. Gainesville. doi:10.5744/florida/9780813054360.003.0007. ISBN 9780813054360.
Cooper, Evan (28 August 2007). "Is It Something He Said: The Mass Consumption of Richard Pryor's Culturally Intimate Humor". The Communication Review. 10 (3): 224. doi:10.1080/10714420701528065. S2CID 143900518.
Asim, Jabari (2007). The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-618-19717-0. OCLC 1039404339. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
"CD release". Retrieved 2008-11-08.
"A new black superstar". Time. 1977-08-22. Archived from the original on 15 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-09.

External links

Richard Pryor's Official Homepage

Richard Pryor

Albums

Original	Richard Pryor (1968) Craps (After Hours) (1971) That Nigger's Crazy (1974) ...Is It Something I Said? (1975) Bicentennial Nigger (1976) L.A. Jail (1976) Wanted: Live in Concert (1978) Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) Here and Now (1983)
Compilation	...And It's Deep Too! (2000) The Anthology (1968–1992) (2002) Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966–1974) (2005)

Concert films

Live & Smokin' (1971)
Live in Concert (1979)
Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
Here and Now (1983)

Television

The Richard Pryor Show (1977)
Pryor's Place (1984)

Films directed

Here and Now (1983, also writer)
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986, also produced and writer)

Films produced

Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales (1969, also writer)
Bustin' Loose (1981, also writer)
Live on the Sunset Strip (1982, also writer)

Films written

Live & Smokin' (1971)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Live in Concert (1979)

Documentary films

v t e Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
1959−1980	"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1959) The Battle of Kookamonga – Homer and Jethro / Inside Shelley Berman – Shelley Berman (1960) Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris – Jo Stafford & Paul Weston / The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Bob Newhart (1961) An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Elaine May & Mike Nichols (1962) The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1963) "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" – Allan Sherman (1964) I Started Out as a Child – Bill Cosby (1965) Why Is There Air? – Bill Cosby (1966) Wonderfulness – Bill Cosby (1967) Revenge – Bill Cosby (1968) To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With – Bill Cosby (1969) Sports – Bill Cosby (1970) The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – Flip Wilson (1971) This Is A Recording – Lily Tomlin (1972) FM & AM – George Carlin (1973) Los Cochinos – Cheech & Chong (1974) That Nigger's Crazy – Richard Pryor (1975) ...Is It Something I Said? – Richard Pryor (1976) Bicentennial Nigger – Richard Pryor (1977) Let's Get Small – Steve Martin (1978) A Wild and Crazy Guy – Steve Martin (1979) Reality...What a Concept – Robin Williams (1980)
1981−2000	No Respect – Rodney Dangerfield (1981) Rev. Du Rite – Richard Pryor (1982) Live on the Sunset Strip – Richard Pryor (1983) Eddie Murphy: Comedian – Eddie Murphy (1984) "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (1985) Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – Whoopi Goldberg (1986) Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand – Bill Cosby (1987) A Night at the Met – Robin Williams (1988) Good Morning, Vietnam – Robin Williams (1989) P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults – Peter Schickele (1990) P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities – Peter Schickele (1991) P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio – Peter Schickele (1992) P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion – Peter Schickele (1993) Jammin' in New York – George Carlin (1994) Live from Hell – Sam Kinison (1995) Crank(y) Calls – Jonathan Winters (1996) Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations – Al Franken (1997) Roll with the New – Chris Rock (1998) The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 – Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (1999) Bigger & Blacker – Chris Rock (2000)
2001−2020	Brain Droppings – George Carlin (2001) Napalm & Silly Putty – George Carlin (2002) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – Robin Williams (2003) Poodle Hat – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2004) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show (2005) Never Scared – Chris Rock (2006) The Carnegie Hall Performance – Lewis Black (2007) The Distant Future – Flight of the Conchords (2008) It's Bad for Ya – George Carlin (2009) A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! – Stephen Colbert (2010) Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black (2011) Hilarious – Louis C.K. (2012) Blow Your Pants Off – Jimmy Fallon (2013) Calm Down Gurrl – Kathy Griffin (2014) Mandatory Fun – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2015) Live at Madison Square Garden – Louis C.K. (2016) Talking for Clapping – Patton Oswalt (2017) The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – Dave Chappelle (2018) Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle (2019) Sticks and Stones – Dave Chappelle (2020)
2021−present	Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish (2021) Sincerely Louis CK – Louis C.K. (2022)

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Bicentennial Nigger es el sexto álbum del comediante estadounidense Richard Pryor. David Banks produjo el álbum, mientras que Warner Bros. Records lanzó el álbum en una cinta de casete en septiembre de 1976. A menudo se considera una de sus grabaciones más influyentes. [1] [2] La versión en CD del álbum fue lanzada el 20 de junio de 1989. [3] Ganó el Premio Grammy 1977 al Mejor Álbum de Comedia . [4]

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