Car Wash is a soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 double album

Double album

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 by the Funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 band Rose Royce

Rose Royce

Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B band. The group is best known for several hit singles including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "Wishing on a Star", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "I'm Going Down".-Career:...

. It is the soundtrack/film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 to the 1976 hit comedy Car Wash starring Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...

 and George Carlin

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....

 and also the debut album for Rose Royce. Although they had already recorded most of a non-soundtrack album prior to Car Wash, their producer Norman Whitfield

Norman Whitfield

Norman Jesse Whitfield was an American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s...

 insisted that they recorded new material for the film's score. The album was a major success, yielding three Billboard R&B

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...

 Top Ten singles, "Car Wash

Car Wash (song)

"Car Wash" is a 1976 soul music single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful...

", "I Wanna Get Next to You

I Wanna Get Next to You

"I Wanna Get Next to You" is a 1976 soul single written and produced by legendary American songwriter Norman Whitfield, and most famously sung by American R&B band Rose Royce...

", and "I'm Going Down

I'm Going Down (Rose Royce song)

"I'm Going Down" is a Grammy Award-nominated 1977 R&B single written and produced by the late American singer-songwriter Norman Whitfield, as performed by R&B/soul band Rose Royce, the single is from the film, Car Wash and is featured on the film's soundtrack...

". The title track was also a number one single on the Billboard pop charts

Billboard Hot 100

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.

Track listing

1. "Car Wash
   Car Wash (song)
   "Car Wash" is a 1976 soul music single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful...
   
   " - 5:06
2. "6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock)" - 1:09
3. "I Wanna Get Next to You
   I Wanna Get Next to You
   "I Wanna Get Next to You" is a 1976 soul single written and produced by legendary American songwriter Norman Whitfield, and most famously sung by American R&B band Rose Royce...
   
   " - 3:58
4. "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" - 3:25
5. "Zig Zag" - 2:30
6. "You're on My Mind" - 3:27
7. "Mid Day DJ Theme" - 1:43
8. "Born to Love You" - 3:06
9. "Daddy Rich" - 3:24
10. "Richard Pryor
    Richard Pryor
    Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...
    
     Dialogue/Daddy Rich [Reprise]" - 5:05
11. "You Gotta Believe" (with The Pointer Sisters) - 2:51
12. "I'm Going Down
    I'm Going Down (Rose Royce song)
    "I'm Going Down" is a Grammy Award-nominated 1977 R&B single written and produced by the late American singer-songwriter Norman Whitfield, as performed by R&B/soul band Rose Royce, the single is from the film, Car Wash and is featured on the film's soundtrack...
    
    " - 3:36
13. "Yo Yo" - 4:17
14. "Sunrise" - 10:46
15. "Righteous Rhythm" - 2:30
16. "Water" - 3:31
17. "Crying" - 2:57
18. "Doin' What Comes Naturally" - 3:10
19. "Keep on Keepin' On" - 6:39

Chart positions

Title (Year)	US	UK	US R&B	US Dance
Car Wash (album) (1976)	14	9	2
"Car Wash Car Wash (song) "Car Wash" is a 1976 soul music single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful... " (1976)	1	9	1	3
"I Wanna Get Next to You I Wanna Get Next to You "I Wanna Get Next to You" is a 1976 soul single written and produced by legendary American songwriter Norman Whitfield, and most famously sung by American R&B band Rose Royce... " (1977)	10	14	3
"I'm Going Down I'm Going Down (Rose Royce song) "I'm Going Down" is a Grammy Award-nominated 1977 R&B single written and produced by the late American singer-songwriter Norman Whitfield, as performed by R&B/soul band Rose Royce, the single is from the film, Car Wash and is featured on the film's soundtrack... " (1977)	70		10