Car Wash (soundtrack)

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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.

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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. 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.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Norman Whitfield, except where noted.

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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
• Brian Haner - guitar
• Richard Pryor - dialogue on "Richard Pryor Dialogue"
• The Pointer Sisters - vocals on "You Gotta Believe"

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Production

• Norman Whitfield - producer, recording engineer
• Baker Bigsby, Cal Harris, Leanard Jackson - recording engineer
• Clay McMurray - recording engineer, album coordinator
• Paul Riser - orchestra direction

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Charts

Singles

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References

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External links

• Car Wash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) at Discogs (list of releases)

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