The Best of Dick Gregory

The Best of Dick Gregory Artist: Dick Gregory
Label: Collectables
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 090431883426
EAN: 0090431883426
ASIN: B000000971


Release Date: 1997-03-25

The Best of Dick Gregory


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Tracks:

  1. Young Moral Dedications
  2. Moral Gap
  3. Assassinations
  4. Property Rights-Human Rights
  5. Learning To Live
  6. White Racist Institutions
  7. Black Rioters
  8. Atmosphere Of Trust
  9. Presidential Campaign
  10. White Brother
  11. Crime-Washington, D.C.
  12. Spiro Agnew
  13. Martians

Tracks:

  1. President Gregory On Smoking, Rest Programs
  2. Checking Out Whites And Riots
  3. Dope Pushers
  4. Tricks
  5. Like There Is No Agnew
  6. Feeding The Poor And Hungry, Volunteer Army
  7. Black Culture In The Ghettos, Civil Rights

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  1. Live at the Village Gate
  2. Evening With Dick Gregory

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The social commentary of Dick Gregory during the Nixon years.......2003-02-11

It is certainly an encouraging sign when the decision to offer a compilation of "The Best of Dick Gregory" results in a double-CD set (it was originally a three LP set). The big caveat here is that this comes from Gregory's later standup period, done during the years of the Nixon administration and we all remember how much fun that time was for comedians, especially those who considered their acts to be a political critique with a hard edge. If we are talking about political comedy, then I do not know of anybody who better realized the ideal than Dick Gregory. The only problem is that today he is recognized more as an activist than remembered as a great comedian. Gregory had a beard, just like Abraham Lincoln (except, he noted, Lincoln was also ugly). At the heights of the Civil Rights movement he was a black comedian who would talk about Bertrand Russell and social issues such as needing a prescription for getting medicine but not for getting a gun. This is confrontational comedy, aimed primarily at a white audience (Gregory was known as one of the first "crossover" black comedians who attracted a substantial white audience), where Gregory would talk about the irony of the first letter he ever wrote being to a white Santa Clause or note with righteous anger that the assassinations of Malcolm X and George Lincoln Rockwell did not upset people the way people were upset when Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. His targets include not only the likes of Spiro Agnew but Martians and Dope Pushers (but Agnew remains the most irresitable target).

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  3. Rock-N-Roll's Greatest Hits of All Time: Early 70's, Vol. 3-4 ~ Various Artists
  4. Bareback Ride ~ Walt Mink
  5. Grown in the U.S.A. ~ Homer
  6. A Special Tribute to Pink Floyd ~ Various Artists
  7. Last Great Ride ~ Dark Carnival
  8. Escape ~ Enrique Iglesias
  9. Rejuvenation ~ The Meters
  10. Live from the Backyard in Austin, TX ~ Widespread Panic

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Songs For A Rainy Day ~ Edythe Aymes

Garden of Evil ~ Tender Fury

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Jimmy Bailando ~ Paolo Conte

Vol. 2-King of the Delta Blues Singers

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