Sleeping Beauty is a
1976comedy album recorded by
Cheech & Chong. Since 1976, this album was only available on
vinyl LP and 8-track, then, in 1992 it was briefly reissued on
CD and
cassette and has since become out of print. On November 15, 2005, the long out-of-print album was finally re-released and digitally re-mastered on CD, along with Let's Make a New Dope Deal.
Cover
The album cover and title refer to the once popular drug
Secobarbital, a
barbiturate derivative commonly known on the street as "reds". Used for epilepsy and insomnia, the drug was
widely abused in the 1960s and '70s. The original LP album cover folded out into a giant red capsule, bearing a
pharmaceutical code resembling that of Secobarbital pills of the 1970s. The inner sleeve featured a photo of a "red" placed on a person's tongue. (This image was used as the cover art for the remastered CD.) Many references to "reds" have been made on Cheech & Chong's albums and in their films.
