ROSE ROYCE — Car Wash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Album · 1976

Tracklist

A1 –Rose Royce Car Wash 5:06
A2 –Rose Royce 6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock) 1:09
A3 –Rose Royce I Wanna Get Next To You 3:57
A4 –Rose Royce Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 3:25
A5 –Rose Royce Zig Zag 2:30
B1 –Rose Royce You're On My Mind 3:27
B2 –Rose Royce Mid Day DJ Theme 1:43
B3 –Rose Royce Born To Love You 3:06
B4 –Rose Royce Daddy Rich 3:12
B5 –Richard Pryor Richard Pryor Dialogue 5:21
C1 –Pointer Sisters You Gotta Believe 2:51
C2 –Rose Royce I'm Going Down 3:37
C3 –Rose Royce Yo Yo 4:16
C4 –Rose Royce Sunrise 10:48
D1 –Rose Royce Righteous Rhythm 2:30
D2 –Rose Royce Water 3:31
D3 –Rose Royce Crying 2:57
D4 –Rose Royce Doin' What Comes Naturally 3:09
D5 –Rose Royce Keep On Keepin' On 6:39

Line-up/Musicians

Bass – Lequeint "Duke" Jobe
Composed By Norman Whitfield
Congas – Terry Santiel
Directed By [Orchestra Direction] – Paul Riser
Drums – Henry Garner
Featuring – Richard Pryor
Featuring, Vocals – The Pointer Sisters
Guitar – Kenji Brown, Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin
Keyboards – Ben Wilber, Mark Davis , Victor Nix
Saxophone – Michael Moore
Trumpet – Freddie Dunn, Kenny Copeland
Vocals – Gwen "Rose" Dickey

About this release

MCA Records ‎– MCA2-6000 (US)

Release is Auto-Coupled - sides are organized for use with an auto-changing player.
Record 1: Sides A and D
Record 2: Sides B and C

Thanks to snobb for the addition

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Those who seek obscure funk jazz tracks and rare groove know that soundtracks from 70s African-American movies can sometimes be plentiful in exotic jazzy instrumentals. The movie “Car Wash” was a huge hit in the 70s, and is still popular to this day, but it seems much of its brilliant soundtrack has been overlooked. The main hits from the movie, including the title track, are all well known, but what a lot of people are missing is that this double album is loaded with excellent instrumentals. The main players here are the then brand new RnB group Rose Royce, famous Motown producer Norman Whitfield and guest guitarist Wah Wah Watson, who some may know from his work with Herbie Hancock. As the story goes, Whitfield was working with Royce on their new album when he got the call to do the soundtrack to a new movie that was bound to be big as it boasted the huge drawing power of both Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Whitfield decided the best thing to do was just take the work he had started with Royse and make that the soundtrack to the movie.

The handful of RnB pop tunes that Whitfield crafted for the album are all good, and they reflect his work with The Temptations, but the jazz and rare groove fans will want to check out the plentiful instrumentals. The hard charging funk of “Mid Day DJ Theme” and “Righteous Rhythm” are tops, and you can hear all of Wah Wah Watson’s signature guitar riffs, the same ones he used to build Herbie’s “Hang Up Your Hang Ups”. “Crying” is laid back space groove and “Sunrise” sounds like a modern nu jazz cut with its repeating minimal riffs. Really, everything on here is gold and all of it has that classic mid-70s funk sound that can’t be faked.

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