Rose Royce

Rose Royce was an American Soul -, radio - and disco - band whose biggest hit to the 1976 Single Car Wash is.

biography

The band was from Motown - music producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield (best known for his work on with The Temptations ) together. The group, initially consisting of eight members, was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s under the name Total Concept Unlimited and performed as a backing band for Edwin Starr and as a studio musician for The Temptations and The Undisputed Truth . Members were Kenji Brown, Kenny Copeland, Freddie Dunn, Henry Garner, Lequient "Duke" Jobe, Michael Moore, Victor Nix and Gerrai Santiel.

In 1976 the singer Gwen Dickey was added and the band name was changed to Rose Royce. This was followed by the soundtrack produced by Whitfield for the musical comedy Car Wash, the theme song of which became the group's greatest success. The single reached number 1 in the US , top 10 placements in Switzerland and Great Britain and the top 20 in Austria and Germany . By 1977 five more singles climbed into the American and / or English charts, including just a top 10 hit with I Wanna Get Next to You (1977, US number 10). The album was awarded a Grammy for best soundtrack composition .

1978 turned out to be the most successful year for Rose Royce in the UK. At the beginning of the year, Wishing on a Star climbed to number 3 on the singles chart, followed by It Makes You Feel Like Dancin ' in May , which reached number 16, and finally Love Don't Live Here Anymore even climbed to number 2. Five in the fall further singles were placed in the UK charts until 1985.

A new edition of Car Wash (with Is It Love You're After as B-side) made it to number 20 in England in 1988. It wasn't until 10 years later, in 1998, that a remix of Car Wash was the last hit parade for Rose Royce. In the same year Gwen Dickey released a new version of Wishing on a Star together with Jay-Z , which was number 13 in the UK charts and number 56 in Germany.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1977	Car Wash	-	AT18 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	US14th platinum (40 weeks)US	Soundtrack to the film Car Wash First published: 1976 Grammy
	In full bloom	-	-	-	UK18th silver (13 weeks)UK	US9 platinum (33 weeks)US
1978	Strikes Again	-	-	-	UK7th gold (11 weeks)UK	US28 gold (24 weeks)US
1979	Rainbow Connection	-	-	-	UK72 (2 weeks) UK	US74 (8 weeks) US
1981	Golden touch	-	-	-	-	US160 (7 weeks) US	First published: 1980
1984	Music Magic	-	-	-	UK69 (2 weeks) UK	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1976: Best of Car Wash
• 1981: Jump Street
• 1982: Stronger Than Ever
• 1986: Fresh Cut
• 1989: Perfect Lover
• 1993: Live! - Car wash
• 1996: Mr. Carwash
• 1996: Rose Royce
• 2002: Studio Cuts (Greatest Hits)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1980	Greatest hits	-	-	-	UK1 platinum (34 weeks)UK	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More compilations

1983: Greatest Hits - Live in Concert 1987: The Best of Rose Royce 1988: Best of Rose Royce from Car Wash 1988: Is It Love You're After 1991: Greatest Hits (with chic ) 1994: Greatest Hits Live 1995: gold 2001: Rose Royce

2002: The Collection 2003: Disco Demigods (Rose Royce / The Trammps / The Miracles ) (box with 3 CDs) 2003: The Best Of (Live) 2006: Sisters of Soul Live (with Sister Sledge ) 2007: Greatest Hits 2008: Wishing on a Star 2010: Best Of - Live Rose Royce

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1976	Car Wash Best of Car Wash	DE15 (36 weeks) DE	AT16 (12 weeks) AT	CH6 (11 weeks) CH	UK9 (12 weeks) UK	US1 (23 weeks) US
1977	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Best of Car Wash	-	-	-	UK44 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: 1976
	I want to get next to you best of car wash	-	-	-	UK14 (8 weeks) UK	US10 (17 weeks) US	First published: 1976
	I'm going down best of car wash	-	-	-	-	US70 (7 weeks) US
	Do Your Dance In Full Bloom	-	-	-	UK30 (6 weeks) UK	US39 (8 weeks) US
	Ooh Boy In Full Bloom	-	-	-	UK46 (7 weeks) UK	US72 (11 weeks) US	Chart entry in UK only in March 1980
1978	Wishing on a Star In Full Bloom	-	-	-	UK3 silver (14 weeks)UK	-	First published: 1977
	It Makes You Feel Like Dancin ' In Full Bloom	-	-	-	UK16 (10 weeks) UK	-
	Love Don't Live Here Anymore Strikes Again	-	-	-	UK2 gold (10 weeks)UK	US32 (11 weeks) US
1979	I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling) Strikes Again	-	-	-	UK51 (4 weeks) UK	-
	Is It Love You're After Rainbow Connection IV	-	-	-	UK13 (13 weeks) UK	-
1981	RR Express (Rose Royce Express) Jump Street	-	-	-	UK52 (3 weeks) UK	-
1984	Magic Touch Music Magic	-	-	-	UK56 (1 week) UK	-
1985	Love Me Right Now	-	-	-	UK60 (4 weeks) UK	-
1988	Car Wash / Is It Love You're After Is It Love You're After	-	-	-	UK20 (7 weeks) UK	-
1998	Car Wash 1998 (The Monday Night Club Mixes)	-	-	-	UK18 (3 weeks) UK	-	feat. Gwen Dickey and the Monday Night Club

More singles

1976: I'm going down 1976: Mini Wash (EP) 1978: First Come, First Serve 1979: What You Waitin 'For 1979: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight 1980: Pop Your Fingers 1980: Funkin 'Around 1980: Golden Touch 1980: I Wanna Make It with You 1980: You're a Winner 1982: You Blew It 1982: Still in Love 1982: Dance with Me

1982: Best Love 1982: Fire in the Funk 1984: New Love 1984: Holding On to Love 1985: I'm Ready for Your Love 1986: Doesn't Have to Be This Way 1986: Lonely Road 1987: If Walls Could Talk 1987: Listen Up 1987: Fighting Chance 1988: Just My Imagination 1988: Car Wash (EQ 88 Full Strength Mix) 1989: Perfect Lover

Video albums

• 1985: Love Me Right Now (VHS)
• 2003: In Concert (DVD)
• 2005: Sinbad Soul Music Festival: Rose Royce (DVD)

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	2,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	platinum1	1,210,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3

literature

• Frank Laufenberg's hit lexicon of rock and pop , 1st edition October 2002, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-36362-8 .

swell

1. ↑ Jay-Z feat. Gwen Dickey - Wishing on a Star DE UK
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK Billboard 200
3. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} gold / platinum databases: UK US

Web links

• Official website
• Rose Royce at Allmusic (English)
• Rose Royce at Discogs (English)