Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
| Car Wash | |||||
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| Soundtrack album by Rose Royce | |||||
| Released | September 13, 1976 | ||||
| Genre | Funk, soul, disco, R&B | ||||
| Length | 73:10 | ||||
| Label | MCA | ||||
| Producer | Norman Whitfield | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Car Wash is a soundtrack double album released by the Funk band Rose Royce on the MCA label in September 1976. It was produced by Norman Whitfield. It is the soundtrack/film score to the 1976 hit comedy Car Wash that featured Richard Pryor and George Carlin and is also the debut album for Rose Royce.
History
Although Rose Royce had already recorded most of a non-soundtrack album prior to Car Wash, their producer Norman Whitfield insisted that they recorded new material for the film's score.[2] Initially, the film's producer's approached Whitfield with a basic plot, and Whitfield set about creating the music for a film that (at that time) had not even been written yet.
The album was a major success, yielding three Billboard R&B Top Ten singles, "Car Wash", "I Wanna Get Next to You", and "I'm Going Down". The title track was also a number one single on the Billboard pop charts. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 1996 by MCA Records. The Car Wash soundtrack won a 1977 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album.[3]
Track listing
| Side one | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Car Wash" | Norman Whitfield | 5:06 |
| 2. | "6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock)" | Norman Whitfield | 1:09 |
| 3. | "I Wanna Get Next to You" | Norman Whitfield | 3:57 |
| 4. | "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" | Norman Whitfield | 3:25 |
| 5. | "Zig Zag" | Rose Royce | 2:30 |
| Side two | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 6. | "You're on My Mind" | Lequeint Jobe, Henry Garner | 3:27 |
| 7. | "Mid Day DJ Theme" | Norman Whitfield | 1:43 |
| 8. | "Born to Love You" | Rose Royce | 3:06 |
| 9. | "Daddy Rich" | Norman Whitfield | 3:12 |
| 10. | "Richard Pryor Dialogue" | Norman Whitfield | 5:21 |
| Side three | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 11. | "You Gotta Believe" (Vocals by The Pointer Sisters) | Norman Whitfield | 2:51 |
| 12. | "I'm Going Down" | Norman Whitfield | 3:37 |
| 13. | "Yo Yo" | Rose Royce | 4:16 |
| 14. | "Sunrise" | Norman Whitfield | 10:48 |
| Side four | |||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 15. | "Righteous Rhythm" | Norman Whitfield | 2:30 |
| 16. | "Water" | Norman Whitfield | 3:31 |
| 17. | "Crying" | Norman Whitfield | 2:57 |
| 18. | "Doin' What Comes Naturally" | Norman Whitfield | 3:09 |
| 19. | "Keep on Keepin' On" | Norman Whitfield | 6:39 |
Personnel
Rose Royce
- Kenji Brown – guitar
- Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass
- Victor Nix – keyboards
- Henry Garner – drums
- Kenny Copeland, Freddie Dunn – trumpet
- Michael Moore – sax
- Terry Santiel – congas
- Gwen "Rose" Dickey – vocals
Additional Musicians/Personnel
- Mark Davis, Ben Wilber – keyboards
- Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin – guitar
- Richard Pryor – dialogue on "Richard Pryor Dialogue"
- The Pointer Sisters – vocals on "You Gotta Believe"
Production
- Norman Whitfield – producer, recording engineer
- Baker Bigsby, Cal Harris, Leanard Jackson – recording engineer
- Clay McMurray – recording engineer, album coordinator
- Paul Riser – orchestra direction
Charts
| Chart (1976) | Peak [4][5] |
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| U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 2 |
| UK Albums Chart | 59 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||||
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| 1976 | "Car Wash" | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | 9 |
| 1977 | "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" | — | — | — | — | 44 |
| "I Wanna Get Next to You" | 10 | 3 | — | 9 | 14 | |
| "I'm Going Down" | 70 | 10 | — | — | — | |
References
- ↑ Guarisco, Donald A.. Car Wash review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ↑ Rose Royce bio
- ↑ allmusic Biography
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