RICHARD PRYOR: "L.A. Jail" (1976, full album)

Exploito release on the Tiger Lily label in 1976, this was recorded at P.J.'s in 1968.
Arrested
Brick Fight
Big Daddy
Hair
Bathrooms
Black Jack
Groovy Feelings
Chow Line
Judgement Day
2001
Farting Smells
Pimples
Country Singer
All material written and performed by Richard Pryor. I do not claim any ownership or copyright in this material, or the recording. Fair Use Act, 1976.

[@edub9930]

He was brilliant & he loved us. His soul was in pain, yet encouraged us to laugh through it. RIP GOAT

[@fliprodriguez5250]

He didn’t love you! 😂

[@dltnsdd]

I had this album when I was 10 or 12. Used to sit in my room in the dark after bedtime and listen to it. Had it completely memorized back then. Oh, the memories! Today, thanks to youtube, I shared it with my 19 year old son. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@ludwigfan3013]

HOLY SHIT ! A Richard Pryor album I've never heard of before. Thanks a million to the uploader

[@Esotereclectic]

Yer welcome!

[@willajenkins5427]

He remains my mentor. He never leaves my mind.

[@THomEBHoy]

Willa Jenkins RICHARD is tru Greatness

[@sherdellmccoy2811]

Richard Pryor Is Legendary.

[@79tazman]

Richard Pryor was a awesome comedian and actor

[@RochelleEskue]

I've never heard this recording until today and love Richard even more. I don't feel so bad now explaining to my 14-year old why I was arrested at 15. Guess I'm in good company.

[@RochelleEskue]

@XX crump I'm having a good laugh remembering this comment from 3-years ago. Thanks for adding to it.😀

[@mjrydsfast]

"Fun" jail story? I have one too. Arrested for felony speeding. 179 in a 45, Yarnell, AZ 2004.

[@rabbieburns2501]

These companies releasing albums from same sets/ tours that he did just trying to cash in. The same jokes on at least three albums that i've listened to. Shame, but still a legend & one of, if not the, greatest stand-up comedians of all time.

[@zorrderschnitter2]

Immediately recognized the crazy singing and was amazed at what was essentially Richard Prior singing Ligeti

[@cupidofinsanity]

GREATEST ALBUM EVER ! lol.. we got our hands on this when we were 14.. still laughing hysterically at it !

[@cre8ed]

great post, richard is the greatest. "I stole a envelope, did 37 years"

[@Esotereclectic]

A bit of a weird routine, but by listening to this and *The Wizard Of Comedy* (Laff, 1978) and *Black Ben The Blacksmith* (same info), you can see that although he would do the same setup for a routine, it would always be different, and no two performances would be the same. Two other great examples of this are the old-timer giving directions, and his fire-and-brimstone preacher routine ("...in the year nineteen twunny-nahhhhhnnnn!"). That's what makes the early recordings fascinating to hear!

[@shizyninjarocks]

Esotereccentric Definitely strange. He sounds stoned and a little depressed.

[@Esotereclectic]

shizyninjarocks An off-night, maybe? Who knows. Then again, it's never been fully explained if Richard himself supplied the tape for this album, or had a hand in putting it out.

[@shizyninjarocks]

I enjoyed it nonetheless. Thanks for posting it. Have you watched any of Felipe Esparza's stuff? I just heard him for the first time last night, cracked me up.

[@kevinestep6191]

shizyninjarocks utfvb

[@andreasreinhardt5992]

A legend and an original

[@donniebobb74]

this was on repeat in my room as a child.

[@maryrecoy1616]

That life in Peoria was real Richard had alot to feed off comedy wise and Im encouraged by the way he took his pain n turned it into laughter...Rockford isnt to far from Peoria and I grew up in this crap hole so it helps me Identify w him..and I use to struggle in the early crack epidemic myself til it dam near killed me one day after a real bad episode of drinking n smoking I cudnt take it anymore was tired of going to hospital..pretty sure I had reached the point of insanity...I feel youre pain Richard Pryor...youre in peace now and I cannot wait to meet you on the otherside of this wicked system.

[@marleyjanim5033]

all hail the king

[@John_Smith_86]

Richard Pryor (1940 to 2005)

[@caracasboogie]

Never heard this album before

[@heggy_69]

Anyone here ever been arrested?

[@shengchenfan]

I haven't heard this in 40 yrs.LOL

[@djlarrysouldtd]

Classic I have this album

[@crazycrazyjake]

u sellin it?

[@dominicdwhat420noreallysna9]

god of stand up

[@sopranofan6118]

hats off to ye for uploading this,class

[@Esotereclectic]

I like Richard's early stuff, it's just fascinating to listen to.

[@antoinebouler1660]

I said what I said what you hear I said.... classic

[@eddie486us]

Richard high as a kite on this.

[@LL-yx2ze]

Lolol you're Right he's funny as sh*$

[@mrjamesbailey44]

classic

[@darryljackson8057]

Richard and Redd foxx were the best in the business....

[@drvn8]

"hands against the wall, black boy!" "there ain't no wall!" "find one!"

[@Esotereclectic]

drvn8 Great bit!

[@JumpinJAKEFlash]

LOL! That's my favorite part!

[@mjrydsfast]

Better than being pinned on the ground. "I can't breathe..." Rich's take on cops in the 1970's really foreshadow the events of 2020.

[@JumpinJAKEFlash]

Thank you for uploading this very funny album! I thought I heard every Richard Pryor album...I guess not! Hahaha

[@chapterblaq]

Apparently this was recorded in the 60s and that's wild, I can tell, he sounds young, especially his voices. This shit is so funny.

[@LoyalOpposition]

no it wasnt

[@isaiahangelo]

They laughing but he telling the truth about them curfews

[@johnbyrne8024]

Good old Richie! Completely and totally out of his mind 🤣

[@iam01]

BLACK JACK!

[@pudman31]

Tiger Lily was a label run by Roulette's Morris Levy. He took a bunch of tapes he had in the vault and manufactured the albums, essentially without the artists' knowledge. then he sent a bunch of them out as promo copies and sent NONE to actual sales in stores, then claimed a huge loss for the whole thing for tax purposes. There was a certain loophole that allowed a few labels to do this in 1976/1977. This Pryor material might have been sitting in Levy's vaults for years until he got this opportunity to use it. This is by far the most common of all of the tiger Lily albums. My guess is that the promo copies were snapped up and sold by distributors even though they weren't supposed to do so, just because they knew Pryor could sell. There were also some Charlie Daniels albums on the label, and those showed up more commonly than other Tiger Lily albums as well.

[@Esotereclectic]

+pudman31 Thanks for the info. It's also been suggested that Richard himself might have been in on it, or supplied the tapes for it. Who knows?

[@GIANT299]

+pudman31 jersey mob ..

[@brettthebad]

+pudman31 Interesting

[@crazycrazyjake]

That makes sense because I'm pretty familiar with Richard's material and this (to me, and I could be mistaken) sounds like stuff from some years before '76.

[@dereckmyers592]

Jake JakeJake

[@rajendra3761]

- search this : Richard Pryor Tribute (R.I.P.)

[@mojorising0071950]

68 people have no sense of humor

[@osj205]

@The_Ghost Tiger 95

[@JumpinJAKEFlash]

I just noticed that one part of the "Groovy Feelings" track contains part of the track "Smells" found on Richard Pryor's first comedy album. I just thought it was weirdly interesting. This album is very funny.

[@Esotereclectic]

Yeah, some of the routines tend to overlap sometimes, but it's cool when it's different performances.

[@tommy_noble]

Lmao his impression of the hal9000 is great

[@haydenniles1724]

KEEPINITREAL!

[@ericrhodes5174]

Before the stache

[@blackknight3777]

notes I will have my college transcripts send to my new COLLEGE. MY NOTES.

[@blackknight3777]

notes with my college transcripts sent from my other school. I should graduate from my new. college. sooner. and on time. my notes.

[@DarrylSolemen138t]

They choked him, too. Damn....

[@Esotereclectic]

Weird how it's all coming around again, 50+ years later.

[@EZRACALLOWAY]

OMG!! this is super hilarious

[@scrapperd7827]

"I will hit you with a brick" lolll

[@TheOfficialBonafide]

Scrapper D ya dig

[@moep.8578]

Uncle Joey and joe brought me hete

[@TheOfficialBonafide]

Lmaooo 7:19 😂 😂 😂

[@celinecolling9610]

My parents had all his Albums.

[@MrJeff832000]

18:17 Hahah they threw you in a room... . .you know where they beat ya up HAHAHAH

[@Esotereclectic]

He said to me, "Y-y-y-y-you *dark person*!" :D

[@MrJeff832000]

lmao!!!

[@kingsports1113]

Paul Mooney wrote this too n David banks

[@krlm2280]

Using some of the same material he did in craps

[@Ekolishift]

Is the tracks all mixed up or is this edited or something ?

[@Esotereclectic]

+Ray Shifflett This is the album as it is presented in its original form. Any bad edits can be blamed on those who put it together. not unlike the exploit-o albums put out on Laff Records in the '70s.

[@dltnsdd]

If you have ever looked at a vinyl album, there are spaces between songs. This album has spaces between each topic. That is how all albums were made back then. I had the Up In Smoke album from the movie and each scene was separated by a space on that, too.

[@chrisjames1962]

Recorded in '68, released in '76?

[@Esotereclectic]

Yeah, it is pretty weird, this one. This must have been put out right before the Laff albums started coming out (and continued until 1983). It's been suggested that Richard himself supplied the tapes for this one, or had something to do with its release.

[@MulToyVerse]

12:49. 💩

[@rmarley2100]

You dark person lol

[@midnightrunner684]

Trump / Richard Pryor 2020 M.A.G.A

[@kwendeross1261]

"I ain't say nothin' bout tha bitch"!

[@lawrencedickerson6287]

What album is it where mud bone goes to jail and his nuts caught on fire?

[@Esotereclectic]

There's also this, where Mudbone tells about catching the crabs, at the 10:45 mark. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWmylGajg7KJopY

[@Esotereclectic]

It was on the "Here And Now" album, on the second side. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnTUooJ9nZmar6M

[@mjrydsfast]

I was walking around the park just today...

[@mjrydsfast]

I want to be a funky people too.

[@midnightrunner684]

Your wish is my command ....Poof you are funky