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Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert was the second of Richard Pryor's filmed concert performances, but the first to be released theatrically (Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' was filmed in 1971, but not released until 1985 on VHS).


Aaron's Party: Live in Concert

The video features Aaron in concert at Disney MGM Studios performing songs from his 2000 album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It) among two others; "Life Is a Party" (from the animated film Rugrats in Paris and on the international edition of the album) and a non-album track, "One for the Summer".

The DVD release features footage from the concert including Aaron having fun in Disney World, Aaron's 13th birthday party, Carter recording his then-upcoming album, the music video for "That's How I Beat Shaq" along with a personal greeting from Aaron himself.

Billy Frolick

Frolick’s work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, The Huffington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, for which he interviewed such personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor.

Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert

Last album = Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album
(1998)

What's It Gonna Be, Santa?

Driving the Last Spike

"Driving the Last Spike" was featured on the live album The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs, and the live DVD The Way We Walk - Live in Concert.

Freddy Lockhart

In 1986, his family then moved to Arizona where he spent his formative years being influenced by Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby.

In the Moment – Live in Concert

George Duke - additional keys, background vocals & piano on "Come In"

Indianapolis Clowns

The 1976 movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor, is loosely based on the barnstorming of the Indianapolis Clowns.

Josh Weller

Weller describes his music as pop, and sites his influences as Chet Baker, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor and De La Soul.

Karyl Geld Miller

Her Emmy was for Best Writing for the TV special Lily, starring Lily Tomlin and featuring Richard Pryor (1974).

L.A. Jail

"Funky People" is incredibly similar to "Smells" from Richard Pryor.

"Farting Smells" includes material that is very similar to the tracks "Fartin’" from Craps (After Hours) and "Farting" from Richard Pryor.

La Luna

La Luna: Live in Concert, a 2001 Sarah Brightman concert inspired by that album

Oh Aaron: Live in Concert

The live band is composed by Patrice "P-Bass" Jones (bass, backing vocals and MD), Simone Sello (guitars), Stanley Jones (keyboards), Petey-P Merriweather (drums), Mark Giovi (backing vocals) and Lindsay Cole (backing vocals).

Owen O'Neill

Early comic influences included W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and particularly Richard Pryor: "It was also poignant and heartfelt and I realised then that stand-up could be an art-form".

Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame

This Night Club was one of the premiere Clubs in the mid-west for R&B artist and minority comedians like Red Fox, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

It stars Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves.

Shit on You

The song features references to John Candy, JonBenét Ramsey, where one of the verses said "Got JonBenet Ramsey in my '98 Camry", Richard Pryor, and Steve Stout, while Eminem's line referring to the band as "five more zany-actin' maniacs in action" harks back to his original underground album Infinite.

Stumblin'

"Stumblin'" is a song released as a promotional single from Australian rock group Powderfinger's first live album These Days: Live in Concert.

Sunsets

An acoustic video for "Sunsets" is also featured on bonus DVDs for Vulture Street, and Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, as well as the Sunsets DVD single and These Days: Live in Concert "low key" DVD.

Teresa Ganzel

She often played ditzy busty blonde bimbo roles, as in the 1982 film The Toy with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor, in the Married... with Children episode: "A Three Job, No Income Family" (1989) and National Lampoon's Movie Madness.

The Flip Wilson Show

Wilson's clout allowed him to get both the new breakout performers (such as The Jackson 5, Roberta Flack, Sandy Duncan, Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Albert Brooks, Lola Falana and Melba Moore all of whom became very popular during this period) as well as established singers.

The Mod Squad

The show boasted many famous guest stars including Vincent Price, Ed Asner, Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Griffith, Richard Pryor, Lee Grant, Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Bosley, Danny Thomas, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen, Louis Gosset, Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson.

The Velvet Rope Tour – Live in Concert

Recorded on October 11, 1998 at Madison Square Garden, New York as part of "The Velvet Rope Tour", the concert was broadcast live on HBO in the United States, and reached an audience of 5.3 million viewers in the US alone.

The Way We Walk

The Way We Walk – Live in Concert, a live recording released in 1993 as a VHS and in 2001 as a DVD

Tiger Lily Records

The most prominent artist to have a record released by Tiger Lily was Richard Pryor whose album L.A. Jail was released by Tiger Lily in 1976.

Tuli Kupferberg

An anti-police-brutality skit from his Revolting Theatre appeared in the 1971 Richard Pryor underground film Dynamite Chicken.

Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales: The Movie for Homosexuals is a 1968 film directed by then-film student Penelope Spheeris (later the director of The Decline of Western Civilization and its two sequels), starring famed comedian Richard Pryor.

Wendell Scott

The film Greased Lightning, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, was loosely based on Scott's biography.


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