Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Car Wash
Soundtrack album by Rose Royce
Released September 13, 1976
Genre Funk, soul, disco, R&B
Length 73:10
Label MCA
Producer Norman Whitfield
Rose Royce chronology
Car Wash
(1976)		 Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom
(1977)
Michael Schultz film soundtracks chronology
Car Wash
(1976)		 Krush Groove
(1985)
Singles from Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  1. "Car Wash"
    Released: 1976
  2. "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is"
    Released: 1977
  3. "I Wanna Get Next to You"
    Released: 1977
  4. "I'm Going Down"
    Released: 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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
No. TitleWriter(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
No. TitleWriter(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
No. TitleWriter(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
No. TitleWriter(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

Additional Musicians/Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1976) Peak
[4][5]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 14
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 2
UK Albums Chart 59
Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions
US
[4]		 US
R&B
[4]		 US
Dan
[4]		 US
A/C
[4]		 UK
[5]
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

  1. ↑ Guarisco, Donald A.. Car Wash review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
  2. ↑ Rose Royce bio
  3. ↑ allmusic Biography
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "US Charts > Rose Royce". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
  5. 1 2 "UK Charts > Rose Royce". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2012-11-23.

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