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If Car Wash looks and feels like a 97-minute music video, there's good reason for it. Lacking anything resembling a workable script, screenwriter Joel Schumacher (yes, him--funny how things don't change, isn't it?) enlisted Motown veteran Norman Whitfield to compose a batch of songs that would, in effect, "drive" the film. It's clear from the finished film that Schumacher never overcame his writer's block, but Whitfield more than met his end of the bargain, compiling a soundtrack that yielded three top 10 singles, and a musical oeuvre that Rose Royce is still milking to this day. Car Wash succeeds by way of its mass appeal. Whitfield forwent the parochial, if classic, Motown Sound, and incorporated elements of rock, disco, and blaxploitation-esque incidental music, resulting in a meaty--and marketable--party record. Whitfield casts Rose Royce as the new Sly and the Family Stone, and though they don't quite fill those shoes, it's a blast to hear them try. --Matt Hanks
Customer reviews for 'Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'
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Disco, Soul & Funk at its best
It doesn't matter if you haven't seen the movie. The actual motion picture was done after the sound track. An amazing assembling of inspired top notch musicians is the base for one of the best pop music studio recordings ever. A high energy disco, soul and funk groove will guarantee you an amazing listening experience - and if you feel like, dancing as well. Enjoy it!
[Saturday, November 29, 2008]
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The Thrill of the seventies
You have probably heard the main title "Car Wash" which has quite recently appeared on a Disney Cartoon.
The whole CD brings not only the fun of the balck music of the early seventies, it also gives you a good example of how to explore the guitar pedal effects.
Besides the funky rhythm you will also recognize the brass presence in most of the songs so creating a typical atmosphere of those years which still shows energy and fun even thirty-something years after.
This is a musical history lesson for the young listeners and musicians.
A.Carlos
[Sunday, October 05, 2008]
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Most famous 7 hand claps in music history
Everybody knows this one song starting with the hand claps: CAR WASH.
It was from the first movie built around a soundtrack. And to me it's still one of the best soundtracks - if not THE best - ever.
Genius music producer Norman Whitfield in 1976 actually created a band for this - and what a band it was: Rose Royce. As they were filming the movie they used the real music as background for the shoots. That's why the cast is "in the groove" at all times.
The entire album is composed, arranged and produced by Norman Whitfield.
Just in case any of you don't know who he is.... The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Undisputed Truth, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Rose Royce - just a few names of the many greats whose albums he produced.
Papa was a Rollin' Stone, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Car Wash - his music is timeless.
Rose Royce is: Gwen Dickey vocals, Kenji Brown guitar, Lequeint Jobe bass, Victor Nix keys, Henry Garner drums, Kenny Copeland trumpet, Michael Moore sax, Terry Santiel congas
This cd has all the songs and instrumentals from the movie. Don't go for any best of's cause you'll be missing out on a ton of gems.
If this disc doesn't make you wiggle I don't know what will.
GET IT NOW!
[Thursday, September 18, 2008]
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