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She is best known as the lead singer of the R&B band Rose Royce, where she performed under the name Rose Norwalt. Notable songs from the group include "Car Wash" and "Wishing on a Star". In 1976, their US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Car Wash" brought Dickey and the band acclaim and success. After leaving the band in 1980, Dickey moved ...
The former Motown Records producer Norman Whitfield had been commissioned to record the soundtrack album for Car Wash by the director Michael Schultz.Although Whitfield did not want the project, he decided to do so, both for financial incentives as well as the chance to give Rose Royce, a disco/funk backing band that Whitfield signed to his own label in 1975, the exposure they needed to become ...
Gwen Dickey formed her own version of Rose Royce - Gwen Dickey's Rose Royce and in 2021 and 2022 toured the UK nationally. In 2022 Gwen featured on the Giants of Soul Tour - taking in 15 UK venues performing with Deniece Williams, Alexander O'Neal, Tunde (Lighthouse Family) and Jaki Graham.
Norman Whitfield had an international smash hit in 1976 with Rose Royce's "Car Wash", issued on MCA Records. Rose Royce (whose members were originally Edwin Starr's backing band while at Motown) went on to record three more popular albums, and had two huge UK hits with "Wishing on a Star" (1977) and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1978), but ...
Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack double album released by the funk band Rose Royce on the MCA label in September 1976. It was produced by Norman Whitfield. It is the soundtrack/film score to the 1976 hit comedy Car Wash that featured Richard Pryor and George Carlin and is also the debut album for Rose Royce.
Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks band, has died in a car crash near El Paso, officials confirmed. Lynch, 65, was killed instantly in a head-on collision Friday evening by an ...
Rainbow Connection IV is the fourth album by the funk band Rose Royce, released on the Whitfield label in 1979. [4] It was produced by Norman Whitfield.This would be the last album to include lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left the group to embark on a solo career.
Angela Bassett is reacting to the tragic news that a 9-1-1 crew member was killed in a car accident after working a late 14-hour shift on the procedural drama. The 65-year-old actress, who stars ...