Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 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 record new material for the film's score.[ Rose Royce bio] Initially, the film's producers approached Whitfield with a basic plot, and Whitfield set about creating the music for a film that, at that point, 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.[ allmusic Biography]
Track listing
Personnel Rose Royce Kenji Brown – guitar Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass Victor Nix – keyboards Henry Garner – drums Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals on "I Wanna Get Next to You""Come On Y'all and Sing it for Me" Soul Train Cruise, 19 February 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2024."I Wanna Get Next to You" - Rose Royce (song review) @AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2024. Freddie Dunn – trumpet Michael Moore – saxophone Terry Santiel – congas Gwen "Rose" Dickey – vocals
Additional musicians/personnel Mark Davis, Ben Wilber – keyboards Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin – guitar Brian Haner – 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 (1976/77)PositionAustralia (Kent Music Report)40U.S. Billboard Top LPs14U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs2UK Albums Chart59
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions US USR&B USDan USA/C AUS UK1976 "Car Wash" 1 1 3 — 12 9 "You Gotta Believe" 103 14 — — — —1977 "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" — — — — — 44 "I Wanna Get Next to You" 10 3 — 9 53 14 "I'm Going Down" 70 10 — 10 — —
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