Wanted: Live in Concert
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Wanted: Live in Concert (also known as Wanted/Richard Pryor - Live In Concert is a comedy album
by Richard Pryor
. Released as a double
-LP
in 1978, it includes performances from Pryor's concert tour in 1978. Two performances from that tour were filmed in Long Beach, California for theatrical release.
Side B
Side C
Side D
Comedy album
A comedy album is an audio recording of comedic material from a comedian or group of comedians, usually performed either live or in a studio. Comedy albums may feature skits, humorous songs, and/or live recording of stand-up comedy performances, but the most common type of comedy albums are stand...
by Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas 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...
. Released as a double
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
-LP
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
in 1978, it includes performances from Pryor's concert tour in 1978. Two performances from that tour were filmed in Long Beach, California for theatrical release.
Track listing
Side A- "New Year's Eve" - 3:54
- "White And Black People" - 7:59
- "Black Funerals" - 2:55
- "Discipline" - 8:00
Side B
- "Heart Attacks" - 8:11
- "Ali" - 4:11
- "Keeping In Shape" - 6:48
- "Leon SpinksLeon SpinksLeon Spinks is a former American boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins, and was the former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion of the world...
" - 5:09
Side C
- "Dogs And Horses" - 5:50
- "Jim BrownJim BrownJames Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...
" - 4:43 - "Monkeys" - 4:05
- "Kids" - 3:50
Side D
- "Nature" - 3:31
- "Things In The Woods" - 3:13
- "Deer Hunter" - 3:02
- "Chinese Food" - 3:23
- "Being Sensitive" - 7:54
Recording locations
- Tracks A2, B3, C1, C3-C4, D1-D2 and D5 recorded at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, September 3, 1978.
- Tracks A1-A3, B1-B2, B4, C2 and D4 recorded at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York, New York, September 19, 1978.
- Tracks A4 and D3 recorded at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, September 28, 1978.