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In 1992, eighteen years after the song's original release, Stevens, using a newly-produced version, starred in a music video of "The Streak" as part of a video album called "Ray Stevens Comedy Video Classics". The music video remains faithful to the original song's story line, and Stevens again portrays the news reporter and Ethel's husband.
Notable songs from the group include "Car Wash" and "Wishing on a Star". In 1976, their US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Car Wash" brought Dickey and the band acclaim and success. After leaving the band in 1980, Dickey moved to the United Kingdom, where she continued a solo career.
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.
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, later sang "Winning Streak," another song from his soon-to-be-released LP. The star previously expressed his excitement about his SNL gig ...
The former Motown Records producer Norman Whitfield had been commissioned to record the soundtrack album for Car Wash by the director Michael Schultz.Although Whitfield did not want the project, he decided to do so, both for financial incentives as well as the chance to give Rose Royce, a disco/funk backing band that Whitfield signed to his own label in 1975, the exposure they needed to become ...
Tracy Chapman is finally getting a new moment in the awards spotlight, 35 years after the release of her biggest hit, "Fast Car." The two gave an emotional performance at the GRAMMYs on Sunday ...
Richard was born in Rayne, Louisiana, in 1939.He began to play the accordion when he was seven, and at 12 he started playing with Neg Halloway and the Rayne Playboys. [2] [3] He founded The Musical Aces in 1959 after a stint playing rock and roll and swamp pop. [2]
The late '90s Blackstreet/Dr. Dre hit may have inspired the song they were about to write, but aside from a super-infectious hook, the two songs couldn't be more different.