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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.
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 ...
Car Wash is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher, and starring an ensemble cast. Originally conceived as a musical, [ citation needed ] the film is an episodic comedy about a day in the lives of a close-knit group of employees at a Los Angeles car wash .
Movie title Song title Artist Writer US charts UK charts Miscellaneous December 11 Car Wash “Car Wash” Rose Royce: Norman Whitfield: 1 9 December 22 A Star Is Born “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” Barbra Streisand: Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams: 1 3
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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 song was also successful worldwide, becoming their second top 40 hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at #14 on the UK Singles Chart. [6] Billboard's Hits of the World international listings showed "I Wanna Get Next to You" reaching #8 in New Zealand on July 3, 1977 while Rose Royce's first hit single "Car Wash" was still in the top 10. [7]
Comedian and actor Mike Epps revealed in a recent podcast that he shot movies while using drugs. ”I've been through hell,” said Epps, who has scores of movie acting credits, including "Next ...