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The Rose Royce (original) version received moderate success. It peaked at number seventy on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number ten on the R&B singles chart.In the film Car Wash, the song serves as a double entendre, as it complements the screen time of Maureen, a forlorn prostitute who desperately seeks a chance at true love with Joe, even as she turns tricks.
The Car Wash soundtrack album, entirely recorded by Rose Royce and Whitfield, spawned two more successful singles, "I Wanna Get Next to You" and "I'm Going Down" (covered in 1994 by Mary J. Blige). The Car Wash soundtrack won a 1977 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album. [3] In 1978 the song was featured in the Tamil movie Sigappu Rojakkal.
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.
[104] [105] The following year, a recording with fiddles and banjos by bluegrass group Trampled by Turtles, who have frequently played "I'm Goin' Down" in concert, [106] appeared on the multi-artist compilation album Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A. [107] The band Vampire Weekend released versions of "I'm Goin' Down" in 2010 and ...
Phylicia Rashad (Nancy) Phylicia Rashad is best known for her role as Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show. She has been dean of Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts since ...
I'm Goin' Down" is a 1984 song by Bruce Springsteen. I'm Going Down may also refer to: "Going Down", a song by The Jeff Beck Group from the 1972 album Jeff Beck Group "I'm Going Down", a song by the Rolling Stones from the 1975 album Metamorphosis "I'm Going Down" (Rose Royce song), 1976, also covered by Mary J. Blige
"Going Down", by Don Nix, recorded by Moloch, Freddie King, Jeff Beck, The Alabama State Troupers, and others "Goin' Down" (Greg Guidry song) , 1982 "Going Down", by Ringo Starr from Old Wave , 1983
William Donald Nix (September 27, 1941 – December 31, 2024) was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. [1] Nix, who was best known for his song "Going Down," was described by AllMusic as "one of the more obscure figures in Southern soul and rock."