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(11 customer reviews) 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Most famous 7 hand claps in music history,
September 18, 2008 Andre Heeger (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)
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...Read more
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
In full bloom !,
April 26, 2001 Torquemada "dunlopilo" (Atlanta, Georgia USA / Madrid, Spain.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)
If you have ever seen the film Car Wash, you will remember the importance of the soundtrack. I personally saw the film again on T.V. not too long ago, and when I found this cd was available, I simply ordered it (I had bought a long time ago the LP version, which only had 10 tracks).This can be counted as one of the great soundtracks of that era, together with others such as "Superfly", "Shaft" or "Saturday Night Fever". The more recent "Jackie Brown" goes in the same direction actually. But, the originality of this one is that the whole soundtrack was apparently recorded BEFORE the shooting of the film (the songs were really playing while the film was shot, and the actors seem to have the time of their life), and that the band was made up by Norman Whitfield especially for this recording. The songs were so great and the band was so successful that it went on to record more albums and competed on the charts with CHIC. In fact, I can tell you...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Childhood memories,
December 13, 2004 Andrew F. Wagner "saxophone genetics" (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)
This album gives me wonderful childhood memories. I remember being in my basement alteranting between the Car Wash soundtrack and C.W. McCall's _Black Bear Road_. (Talk about diversity as a 6-10 year old).
The funk and R&B beats are fantastic. The band, Rose Royce, was put together as an allstar band exemplifying this time period in music.
Thr grooves are unstoppable. You gotta love the simple yet complex vocal harmonies in "Zig Zag."
"Car Wash" may be sometimes overplayed on the radio and at sporting events, but it remains a staple of this era.
"Daddy Rich" is good only if you remember the movie and its plot. (I can't say that I do.)
"put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" has an awesome horn riff...as do most of these tracks.
That's what made my saxophone playing in a horn section so much fun (playing songs like "Brickhouse" and "Jungle Boogie").
There are even powerful vocal songs and soulful belt-outs...Read more
