Rose Royce - Car Wash

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  • @415JayTee
    @415JayTee 8 років тому +226

    Wow! about a hundred people seriously need their car washed. Who in the hell would give a thumbs down to this sweet jam??

  • @tonyirving4154
    @tonyirving4154 4 роки тому +158

    A true classic and the soundtrack to my childhood, how I miss the 1970s

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому +6

      Me as well.

    • @nasoinotna3400
      @nasoinotna3400 2 роки тому +3

      So do I.
      Creativity at its best!
      Music, movies, litterature, mode, art….

    • @Chutney1luv
      @Chutney1luv 2 роки тому +3

      Me too Tony!! I was in the 2nd grade then, but it was played in our home..all the time! And saw the movie! 😅 🚗 🚘 🚔

    • @tonyirving4154
      @tonyirving4154 2 роки тому +3

      @@Chutney1luv yes happy days and a much kinder happer time in the world, hold on to the memories thay are very precious, bless you take care x .

    • @tonyirving4154
      @tonyirving4154 2 роки тому +1

      Thank you ,may the angels watch over you always too , take care x

  • @augustcleavitt
    @augustcleavitt 5 років тому +5

    There was a family in Norfolk/Virginia Beach area at church that would just start singing this or another song... late 90s One would start and they’d all jump in, grown folks. And they could SANG. Not enough soul where I live now lol... there is some in Idaho, but not enough at times. I come to UA-cam to get some flavor lol?!

  • @charliebay9441
    @charliebay9441 3 роки тому +106

    My first job as a kid was working at the car wash. Of course this song came out while I was working there. Ahhh, the 70s . . .

  • @trymenot81
    @trymenot81 4 роки тому +185

    Perfect afros or how we wore our hair back then. Also called a 'natural', it was the definitive statement of class and style. It was an exhibition of how much we cared about showing a positive impression.

    • @geoffhennessy275
      @geoffhennessy275 3 роки тому +12

      Now most of us got no hair. Miss those days.

    • @debbiebaverstock2269
      @debbiebaverstock2269 3 роки тому +2

      @@geoffhennessy275 😂😂

    • @metronoth
      @metronoth 3 роки тому +1

      All the great ones from the 70s

    • @oliviacarr8351
      @oliviacarr8351 3 роки тому

      @@geoffhennessy275 Shouldn't've had them Jeri Curls Yo. While Afros are missed, there's a bigger Nature Hair Revolution going on.

    • @ManetInAEternum
      @ManetInAEternum 3 роки тому +3

      Man I've had an Afro for years! Started growing in 2012 after I got out of the Corps and that thing was poppin 😂😂 (btw I'm white as fuck) I used to say the Soul is in the Fro

  • @paulsimmons3211
    @paulsimmons3211 9 років тому +42

    Love those rhythmic handclaps!...Rose Royce's Car Wash is an enduring dance classic with funky grooves that sound as good today as they did nearly 40 years ago...Make no mistake, the '70s produced an era of super cool music we'll probably never see the likes of again anytime soon...

  • @LittlewingKD
    @LittlewingKD 8 років тому +483

    WE used to skate to it. It was awesome. I miss those days...

    • @mleclair40
      @mleclair40 8 років тому +51

      i thought about buying a building and converting it into an old fashon 70's rollerskating rink with the old fashion roller skates and old 70's music and the light balls...i used to skate in the 70's

    • @rhsb553
      @rhsb553 8 років тому +15

      Me too!
      This kind of shizz was PERFECT to be rolling to!

    • @MartyHelbig
      @MartyHelbig 7 років тому +13

      followed by foghat slow ride, never any issue of rock and disco.. yeah i remember..

    • @josesito1714
      @josesito1714 4 роки тому +2

      @@mleclair40And, did you buy it?

    • @teresachavez.a2zen
      @teresachavez.a2zen 4 роки тому +1

      DITTO!!

  • @oludotunjohnshowemimo434
    @oludotunjohnshowemimo434 4 роки тому +81

    Absolute classic music from back in the day. Music of today cannot compete with this.

  • @deborahpatterson7692
    @deborahpatterson7692 8 років тому +635

    This was when music was jamming and everybody partied together. I miss the good old days.

    • @Tom_TheDutchguy
      @Tom_TheDutchguy 8 років тому +37

      who doesn't? hell i wasn't even a sperm back when the music was awesome and i even miss it. music today just flat out sucks.

    • @danblo-dl8hl
      @danblo-dl8hl 8 років тому +8

      Indeed it does. How right you are!

    • @looneytunesfan0915
      @looneytunesfan0915 8 років тому +9

      Tom Thedutchguy YES! I hate new music!

    • @blotfd
      @blotfd 8 років тому +10

      Deborah lets bring em back!

    • @rayfuselier8118
      @rayfuselier8118 8 років тому +3

      Deborah Patterson , 1959ROCKER, STILL GETIN. DOWN. 😎. better than dining a dich.

  • @marceloswifeboricua
    @marceloswifeboricua 4 роки тому +61

    Miss these days. I might've been a little girl when this song came out, but I wish this era was now! I loved the music my Mom always had...Radio was on everyday and it's part of my life now.

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому +2

      Proud of you. So many stories like this from younger people who missed those days. The cars, music and TV shows were amazing. We had everything we needed and business got done. It just gets done faster now and tech is a great industry to drive the economy even more. The best advantage today though, over then, is medical advances allowing people to live longer.

  • @fairlane53
    @fairlane53 9 років тому +243

    "AND THE BOSS DON'T MIND SOMETIMES IF YOU ACT A FOOL" GREAT LINE!

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 5 років тому +2

      Fill up and you don't have to pay. C'mon and give us a break.

    • @Littlehighwayhomestead
      @Littlehighwayhomestead 4 роки тому +1

      Get a wash....right away!!!

    • @TheMiles009
      @TheMiles009 3 роки тому

      Literally read this as lady started singing it haha tf

    • @jaiintrigue499
      @jaiintrigue499 3 роки тому +1

      Both my brothers worked at the car wash, one was a clown or fool, but bosses really don't mind. Then some days there were "drama fools" fighting up there, boss still didn't care, as long as the work got done.

    • @ireneknight2024
      @ireneknight2024 2 роки тому

      As qq

  • @wickedshadesproductions5254
    @wickedshadesproductions5254 2 роки тому +101

    this song is 30 years older then me
    and yet I can still feel the half century old groove flow through me
    disco is never dead

    • @rogerholmes1319
      @rogerholmes1319 2 роки тому +5

      My wife always plays this song when she’s with me at the Car wash! 😂 Love that woman!❤

    • @whynot5716
      @whynot5716 Рік тому +1

      Right on! Love the lyrics "You'll never get rich digging' a ditch!!"

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq Рік тому +1

      @@whynot5716 " & the boss don't mind sometimes if you act the foo' ".

    • @karicewillis
      @karicewillis Рік тому +1

      ​@@whynot5716Actually, the lyrics are,"You might not ever get rich, but it's better than digging a ditch." 🤭

  • @davidtsmith33
    @davidtsmith33 Рік тому +21

    Never gets old. LOve this long version.

  • @Danni2ft2
    @Danni2ft2 Рік тому +13

    This is when music was fantastic and didnt require half naked females, lyrics of murders. At this time music was music especially when you can produce a hit about a carwash for movie. As I said from true artist of the craft.

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill
    @GeorgeVreelandHill 9 років тому +443

    I remember someone playing this song on a bus in L.A.
    Everyone was slapping to it.

    • @ronhoward5874
      @ronhoward5874 8 років тому +22

      I witnessed this at a local Guitar Center. It was surreal, with people literally dancing in the aisles!

    • @stuartjacobson8626
      @stuartjacobson8626 7 років тому +17

      same thing in philly in 1983!!

    • @Schlipperschlopper
      @Schlipperschlopper 7 років тому +18

      Me too in a subway train in cologne germany during the 1980s

    • @sherridawson2457
      @sherridawson2457 6 років тому +11

      It’s a great song to clean house too

    • @leetate1963
      @leetate1963 5 років тому +7

      Did you mean "Clapping" ?

  • @Allencartercomix
    @Allencartercomix 10 років тому +109

    My all-time favorite intro to a song. Love how it starts with the hand claps and adds the bass, guitar, and disco beat later!

    • @Loufi303
      @Loufi303 6 років тому +4

      Memphis Soul Stew - may be your runner up then. it builds in a similar way, be it to very different yet not less awesom results. :))

    • @Loufi303
      @Loufi303 6 років тому +3

      As for a song to the opening titles of a movie: this is hard to beat

    • @sylviawillis455
      @sylviawillis455 6 років тому

      The best!

    • @thenewstuff3377
      @thenewstuff3377 6 років тому +2

      Definitely not Memphis Soul Stew.... obviously and apparent Northern/Western funk/disco.

    • @ultraseb
      @ultraseb 2 роки тому +2

      That intro is pure 70s groove....feel that funk in your veins!!!

  • @reaturree3735
    @reaturree3735 4 роки тому +23

    YES, YES, YES brings back so many GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the memories!!!!!

  • @genesis0932
    @genesis0932 Рік тому +18

    I miss funk music. This is great stuff. No computers.

  • @unionblacksmith7843
    @unionblacksmith7843 8 років тому +26

    huge cars, with big block V8's, huge afros, huge music, so glad I remember the 70's... what a simpler, funkier time!!!

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому +2

      Perfectly said.
      I had a light lime green polyester leisure suit.

  • @rhondaharris1695
    @rhondaharris1695 4 роки тому +9

    I miss those days!

  • @cindygonzalez486
    @cindygonzalez486 4 роки тому +28

    Back in the 70s we partied in black clubs and they partied with us . We didn’t worry about race just dancin! Yes there was racism but it seemed we were having such good times dancing in the clubs we didn’t think about it!

    • @cindygonzalez486
      @cindygonzalez486 4 роки тому +5

      We need to go back to dancing

    • @marcelene2301
      @marcelene2301 5 місяців тому

      cum am ajuns ca omenire la asa intoleranta torquemada e fericit acolo in butoiul cuzmoala sper ca nici cenusa nu mai e

    • @nameprivate2194
      @nameprivate2194 3 місяці тому

      Sounds like the real partiers at the time, and oh they had 'em in the '70s, simply would not exercise nor allow some asshole party-pooper's racial pretences to louse up the good times. Party on instead, without that and without them.
      These cars are CLEAN, oh yes!

    • @originalindigodingo
      @originalindigodingo 19 днів тому

      I feel like the black people getting their asses beaten while protesting for their rights did think about it.

    • @jenn8470
      @jenn8470 19 днів тому

      Babe Obama for that

  • @michaelglickman1300
    @michaelglickman1300 5 років тому +15

    For those wondering, the musicians are lead and backing vocalist Gwen Dickey; guitarists Kenji Brown and Melvin Ragin; bassist Lequeint "Duke" Jobe; drummer Henry Garner; conga player Terral Santiel; keyboardists Ben Wilber, Mark Davis, and Victor Nix; saxophonist Michael Moore; and trumpeters Freddie Dunn and Kenny Copeland.

  • @tdugle1823
    @tdugle1823 4 роки тому +43

    This song still gets my arthritic body moving!Was 11 when it came out!

    • @davea7602
      @davea7602 2 роки тому

      Bit young to have arthritis I am 12 years older than you

    • @alking7655
      @alking7655 2 роки тому +1

      You can't sit still to a decent funk man, back when music really made you dance.

    • @leonardbrown2219
      @leonardbrown2219 2 роки тому

      Amen to your comment.This song called the party to the floor an the sisters dancing free style.And when we would hear this song we all would start putting in some work dancing You never had to go to a gym/fitness center.What this song an group did for Philly(.Will forever live on.)😊😊😊@@alking7655

    • @alking7655
      @alking7655 2 роки тому +1

      @@leonardbrown2219, Even more when you do dance moves that replicate working at a car wash. Wax on, wax off.
      Don't know how many calories I burned (probably minimal) but it and "Boogie Wonderland" got me moving today. Nice to finally get some Sunday spring sun in Australia and dance in the backyard.
      My top 3 fitness music tracks.
      - This
      - Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind, and Fire.
      - Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters

    • @rositadejesus3886
      @rositadejesus3886 Рік тому

      Omg...mine too

  • @EmpressOfWyoming58
    @EmpressOfWyoming58 8 років тому +253

    They played this movie at the 75 cent theater on Brynmawr in north Chicago. The audience was filled with neighborhood kids who clapped along and knew every line, every lyric, in the movie. The enthusiasm and funky soul was infectious. I saw it several times there, in 1977. Good times.

    • @ayokay123
      @ayokay123 7 років тому +3

      I remember seeing Monty Python there. A tiny bomb or M80 blew open the side exit door in the middle of the movie. There were only 7 people in the theater at the time and my buddy jumps up and yells; "OK, NOBODY PANIC!!!!!!"......when he was the ONLY one panicking. I still make fun of him today about it.

    • @ayokay123
      @ayokay123 7 років тому +4

      I remember seeing it at the Uptown theatre a few blocks away (on Broadway) at the same time, and the same thing happened with the audience. It was the best. I lived over on Marine Dr. at the time.

    • @russeli1941
      @russeli1941 7 років тому +3

      EmpressOfWyoming58 That would be like Heaven!

    • @denniscumbie4117
      @denniscumbie4117 7 років тому +2

      play that funky music white boy

    • @thornyrose2011
      @thornyrose2011 7 років тому +2

      EmpressOfWyoming58
      Aaawww, That's So Cool!!
      I just love this song it's one of a kind & always fun!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✋👊✊✌
      Right on!!
      Way to be, Wyoming!!!

  • @TheBigdaddy45able
    @TheBigdaddy45able 8 років тому +4

    Rose Royce was another good group,that couldn't stay together.The song Car Wash is a classic though.

  • @LowLuvR117
    @LowLuvR117 5 років тому +11

    70s was the shit no matter where u was n who u was I lived in Germany everyone knew Soul music

  • @marisa9162
    @marisa9162 4 роки тому +116

    I remember as a kid, two friends & I choreographed a routine to this song. We kept performing it over & over for our parents, asking them if we were good enough to get on The Gong Show, 😂

    • @jedk9523
      @jedk9523 2 роки тому

      crist that show was ages ago

    • @burtonrivera5253
      @burtonrivera5253 2 роки тому +2

      Thank you.
      Such a vivid picture of those days.
      Dreams and aspirations were not
      Bought and sold as they are today

    • @jeannetrangata
      @jeannetrangata 2 роки тому +4

      Oh my goodness, I love your comment. The Gong Show! That's a flash from the past. :)

    • @BrendaR4a
      @BrendaR4a 2 роки тому

      Huh. I didn’t know a Marisa back then. 😂

  • @valendanewell5901
    @valendanewell5901 4 роки тому +8

    I was a teenager in the 70s, but still a avid listener of 70s/80s music. Whenever I'm around friends from that time era, I always question them on...What was their favorite movie or song from the 70s?...and 90% said movie and song "CAR WASH". It was like an ANTHEM to us in 76.♥️GREAT MUSIC ROSE ROYCE!! ♥️

  • @AnnetteReyes
    @AnnetteReyes 8 років тому +43

    three in the morning & I'm laying down dancing in my bed..this is a party starter anywhere! love it!

  • @thenewstuff3377
    @thenewstuff3377 6 років тому +77

    This was the first 45 I ever owned. I was 4 and played it repetitively on my Fisher Price record player.
    I remember watching the rainbow spin around and around on the MCA label.

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому +2

      45...Fisher Price...Tainbow...
      That's a 70's story right there!!!!!

  • @robertrichards4032
    @robertrichards4032 2 роки тому +5

    I used to work at a car wash and listened to this song alot

  • @ricancira
    @ricancira 10 років тому +143

    the bassline on this track is dope.

    • @tamikonelson2431
      @tamikonelson2431 3 роки тому

      Facts! #MusicallyInclined😉❤

    • @koba5152
      @koba5152 3 роки тому +2

      And it’s really fun to play too

  • @squirrelattackspidy
    @squirrelattackspidy 10 років тому +123

    Puttin the funk in funky baby! This song is funkalicious!

    • @penkatadrums
      @penkatadrums 5 років тому

      What? I thought this was disco! :D

  • @critter7052
    @critter7052 10 років тому +12

    classic song.....really brings you back to the day! thanks for posting!

  • @trickedouttransam
    @trickedouttransam 4 роки тому +25

    This song is *still* always a great one to play at parties, fills the dancefloor fast!

  • @gerrynicol3951
    @gerrynicol3951 4 роки тому +3

    My very first 45 that I bought back in 1976.played it day and night.groovy baby

  • @DestinyRose1960
    @DestinyRose1960 3 роки тому +9

    This is such a cool song ,great vibe also the whole band lived each other .And she's still performing lord ,live a long long time Miss Rose Royce . 🌹 Roselle

  • @qjbritton
    @qjbritton 4 роки тому +163

    This song having thumbs down proves that there is always going to be haters.

    • @chuggachuggawoowoo
      @chuggachuggawoowoo 3 роки тому +1

      “Haters?” That’s an overused and worn out word. How about they just didn’t like the song? Did you ever consider that?

    • @hellotcautiver
      @hellotcautiver 3 роки тому +11

      @@chuggachuggawoowoo nah a lot of people hate for no reason though

    • @FreemindCollective
      @FreemindCollective 3 роки тому +5

      @@chuggachuggawoowoo Nahh, there haters.

    • @ManuelDiaz-pe9id
      @ManuelDiaz-pe9id 3 роки тому +2

      This song jams to this day .turn it up.every car needs a wash

    • @sweeshaman
      @sweeshaman 3 роки тому +4

      those people dont have cars to car wash

  • @toastytitan9948
    @toastytitan9948 10 років тому +10

    Love when this song comes on at work!! I should have been a 70s child!!

  • @michaelstevenson952
    @michaelstevenson952 3 роки тому +2

    That song was the number one hit on the radio man and the rest is history no hating going on in seventies brother

  • @johnstocker1969
    @johnstocker1969 3 роки тому +3

    A comedic take on the daily life of a car wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams and tribulations. And meeting a few eccentric costumers along the way.

    • @johnstocker1969
      @johnstocker1969 3 роки тому +1

      Actor: Richard Pryor , Franklyn Ajaye , Sully Boyar , Richard Brestoff , Ivan Dixon , Bill Duke , Antonio Fargas , Jack Kehoe , Garrett Morris , Henry Kingi

  • @randy5655
    @randy5655 2 роки тому +1

    I worked at a car wash over 30 years ago. Worst 2 weeks of my life. Nothing like the movie.

  • @phyrl3
    @phyrl3 8 років тому +15

    The movie is an awesome 70's movie! One of my personal favs. Love all the characters even the owners kid! hilarious stuff!

  • @jerryj920
    @jerryj920 3 роки тому

    Rose Royce, "Car Wash"...my 'Funk you, Monday' playlist on FB; NGO....Never Gets Old; blessed enough to have met them in 'full force' they were kind enough to autograph my "In Full Bloom" double album. Thank you, RR. Thank you for the upload, BakNDaDay. Blessings #keeprockin

  • @LindaEvansQueenofRadio
    @LindaEvansQueenofRadio 4 роки тому +15

    This takes me back to the movie Car Wash.....they were jamming washing those cars......it still a hit in 2020.

  • @patrick-lt2nv
    @patrick-lt2nv Рік тому +1

    I bought this single (and so did two million other people), and later I played the other side "Water" on the digital jukebox at the late Portway Tavern as part of my summertime play list. I may have driven some people rather zorbey with those songs, but we can never have those days again. 😢

  • @whatscooking905
    @whatscooking905 4 роки тому +7

    Oh the good ol' days! We skated to this, we partied to this and we jammed to this! One of my favs!!!
    People of all backgrounds, all colors and all races had fun with this!! Too bad ignorant asses had to come along and ruined it all!
    RIP good times! I miss ya! At least they couldn't change the music though!! ;oP

  • @Calibra95
    @Calibra95 9 місяців тому +2

    I might better not say where I found this.
    However, it's a great tune.

  • @stevepinnock9047
    @stevepinnock9047 5 років тому +4

    Love this joint to the max. Only 7 when it first came out in 76'. Still dropping it hard like a ton of bricks. The original film is still funny

  • @marineveteranjorge4412
    @marineveteranjorge4412 Рік тому +2

    Rose Royce was at Grad Night 1978 at Disneyland and played this song. Wow nothing like the 70’s.

  • @tnawcwvictoria
    @tnawcwvictoria 8 років тому +4

    #1 on the Pop Chart 40 years this week and #1 on the Soul Chart as well
    God Bless Rose Royce for a job well done
    and BTW, I use to listen to this song on The Best of Soul Train on WGN America and The Best of Dick Clark's American Bandstand on VH1
    Plus, this song was out when shows like All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Police Woman, Cannon, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The Original Hawaii Five-O, Barney Miller, The Scooby-Doo Show, Superfriends, TattleTales, M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Clue Club, Jabberjaw, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Sanford & Son, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels were still on the air
    Plus, the late Richard Dawson was still KING of the Family Feud, Peter Marshall was still the Master of The Hollywood Squares, Chuck Woolery & Susan Stafford were still spinning the Wheel of Fortune, Roy Clark was still the King of Hee Haw, the late Jack Narz was still the KING of Concentration, the late Don Cornelius was still the Master Conductor of the Soul Train, the late TV Icon was still KING of the American Bandstand and he and the late Bill Cullen were the KINGS of the Pyramid, the late Casey Kasem was still the KING of the American Top 40 and Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann and the Pittsburgh Steelers STILL RULED the NFL

  • @shauncostello5404
    @shauncostello5404 3 роки тому +2

    My son played this on his ghetto blaster while he washed cars in market harborough over 20 years ago

  • @bklynbigman2916
    @bklynbigman2916 8 років тому +5

    this is when music was music, time has really changed.

  • @deannculver7969
    @deannculver7969 2 роки тому +1

    The clapping at the beginning became a thing during basketball games when I was in high school. Yes, I'm old.

  • @popularloner4279
    @popularloner4279 6 років тому +49

    I'm a 90s baby and I love this song and movie!
    Who eles listening in 2018!

    • @wanderinggoliard
      @wanderinggoliard 6 років тому +7

      I was born in 1914 and I love the funk soul riff.

    • @criotene
      @criotene 6 років тому +1

      Nah fam 2012

    • @earthangel2476
      @earthangel2476 6 років тому

      Me 😘

    • @coreyblackwell3887
      @coreyblackwell3887 5 років тому

      Its 2019 now and. I am always Lol this is classic music

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому

      The 1970's gave us the best music there ever will be across the spectrum: soul. funk, disco, the great classic rock and southern rock bands, even country, like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Crystal Gale, Linda Ronstadt and beyond.

  • @mrjohnstgeorge
    @mrjohnstgeorge 2 роки тому +1

    Funky to the roof! I love the guitar rhythm. It's the whole thing, plus the bass man. The movie was a goof, but the song saved it.

  • @michaelrios3755
    @michaelrios3755 6 місяців тому +4

    2024 and just introduced our 7 year old to this GEM! LIFE IS AMAZING...

  • @rickyparker9319
    @rickyparker9319 8 років тому +2

    this was the jam back in the day!!!! guaranteed to get some butts out on the dance floor! the movie is excellent too. it really captured the sexy stoned vibe of the 1970s. a great midnite movie.

  • @WalksWithRie
    @WalksWithRie 10 років тому +5

    My team danced to this in 1998 and we're still listening to it now. Disco isn't dead!

  • @Allamuylejos
    @Allamuylejos 3 роки тому +18

    Mid 2021. This song is still a must to hear!!

  • @jednoble8385
    @jednoble8385 7 років тому +5

    just asking how many of the ol school still with us its been a few years. ???

  • @kevinaredwine992
    @kevinaredwine992 4 роки тому +2

    I will NEVER forget, going to Indianapolis with my church choir, sneaking out to the club that had a Gong Show and won singing this song LOL!

  • @jeshun7071
    @jeshun7071 10 років тому +268

    If you werent born in the 70s or you landed to earth from another planet and missed out on what the 70s was all about, just watch this cult movie, this movie Carwash says everything about the 70s, just brilliant, classy & funny with stars like Richard Pryor, Antonio Fargas, Carwash a Norman Whitfield production will put you in a positive mode for the weekend

    • @antoniojones4139
      @antoniojones4139 7 років тому +8

      Exactly.This movie WAS the 70's in and out! Love it even today and I never get tired of the soundtrack!

    • @TomateFarcie
      @TomateFarcie 7 років тому +8

      If you weren't born in the 60's or 70's it's gonna be hard to understand this movie. I was born but not in the States so when I first saw the movie , my jaw dropped .... I had never seen anything like that. The MUSIC.... the SOUL of it!!!!!!

    • @todosassd1855
      @todosassd1855 6 років тому +9

      Yeah! People missed out on some cool-ass shit! They have NO clue about the culture of the 70's, they just think it was ridiculous for fashion! But the saddest thing is they have no idea what REAL dance music is, there isn't any today and hasn't really been since the 80's.

    • @joannafields9573
      @joannafields9573 6 років тому +2

      speak the truth...

    • @KubaxKristallmond
      @KubaxKristallmond 6 років тому +4

      I was born in 77, but I'm more of a 80s kid to be honest. Still love some songs from the 70s :D

  • @cyndilunsford5714
    @cyndilunsford5714 5 років тому +170

    Back in the day when we partied and no one got shot!

    • @cindygonzalez486
      @cindygonzalez486 4 роки тому +4

      I know and dancing in the discos ALL night to Donna Summer

    • @albertcostley4167
      @albertcostley4167 4 роки тому +2

      Say that real talk ☝🆙 😎

    • @LittlewingKD
      @LittlewingKD 4 роки тому +5

      Yes, people used to not walk around with a huge chip on their shoulder looking for someone to blame for their shortcomings. Fact is people are exactly where they want to be, attitude is the number one reason for having a happy life or a difficult life.

    • @ralphchrist2911
      @ralphchrist2911 4 роки тому +4

      man ain't that the truth

    • @abubakarhassan6926
      @abubakarhassan6926 3 роки тому +1

      Oh that's epic!

  • @sagelemmers7009
    @sagelemmers7009 4 роки тому +4

    Every year in high school, for the last few weeks before winter break all the gym classes would do a dance unit. Lotsa dorky square and circle dances, but the real fun was when the teachers would line everyone up and break out the disco. Car Wash, You Sexy Thing, Feel Like a Woman...man that was a hoot.
    This was 2007-2011. DISCO DONT DIE.

  • @michellecarney9387
    @michellecarney9387 8 років тому +19

    Woke up and wanted to hear this song, good times, good music and good memories!!!!

  • @tarnsand440
    @tarnsand440 5 років тому +3

    This was supposed to be a 1976 summer drive in movie. Turned out being one of that summer's most popular movies. So worth watching at once a year.

  • @stuartdryer1352
    @stuartdryer1352 3 роки тому +2

    I had forgotten how funky that opening vamp was. Freaking awesome.

  • @carol4918
    @carol4918 3 роки тому +5

    906 people need a damn car wash!

  • @jrs10344
    @jrs10344 Рік тому +4

    If you weren't a teen or in your 20s in the 70s, you really missed out on a great era.

  • @ellieherrmann979
    @ellieherrmann979 8 років тому +9

    This movie is the bomb. I was in my early teens and was blown away. The music is amazing as well as the actors in this movie. Remebering the days of my youth when I heard WAR for the first time in my life on a Septa bus and was blown away. The only white girl who knew excellent music.

    • @leonardbrown2219
      @leonardbrown2219 2 роки тому

      You left your D.N.A on your comment.When you said Septa bus line Another Philadelphian in the house.😊😊😊

  • @RobertPlant-rh9ro
    @RobertPlant-rh9ro 11 місяців тому +2

    The BEAT is infectious! Groove ALL Night Long!

  • @ChalkyWhiteChalkyWhite
    @ChalkyWhiteChalkyWhite 9 років тому +32

    surprised this song doesnt have a billion plays

  • @BassPlayerSusan
    @BassPlayerSusan 4 роки тому +1

    I wasn't even born when this song and movie came out. I watched it recently and I's become one of my favorite "day-in-the-lives of.." films (though "Clerks" will always be my favorite in that genre).

  • @geoffhennessy275
    @geoffhennessy275 3 роки тому +15

    The clapping part on the intro was my track team’s “get ready” ritual before a race.

  • @aristatibb7
    @aristatibb7 4 роки тому +1

    First Guitar Kenji Brown right side/ 2nd Guitar Wah Wah Watson, Bass - Lequeint Duke Jobe, Drums - Henry Garner, Victor Nix - Keyboards, Terry Santiel -Congas, Gwen Rose Dickey - Vocals. Kenny Copeland - Trumpet, Freddie Dunn - Trumpet, Michael Moore - Sax. Additional Keyboard - Mark Davis . Produced/Co -Engineered by Norman Whitfield. 1976 MCA/ Universal

  • @loraeden1596
    @loraeden1596 4 роки тому +5

    Hell yeah, this is the original and the kick ass song of 70s & 80s ..

    • @loraeden1596
      @loraeden1596 4 роки тому +1

      Lol..this song came out when smoking in high school was in designated areas...lol..

    • @loraeden1596
      @loraeden1596 4 роки тому

      My son Charlie Eden owns a car detailing business..go check him out ..

    • @jacksonsorensen7717
      @jacksonsorensen7717 4 роки тому

      @@loraeden1596 will do!!

  • @mysupersecretprofilenoonek8640
    @mysupersecretprofilenoonek8640 3 роки тому +1

    me and the boys used to skate to this back in 76! Good ol times ha ha

  • @MariaLopez-hi6ik
    @MariaLopez-hi6ik 3 роки тому +4

    Actn a fool is puttn it mildly.
    Life is Good..........Lord,thanks 2 u......all day.

  • @ronbrotherdougsandefur396
    @ronbrotherdougsandefur396 8 років тому +1

    Awe hell yeah! "Car Wash" was a monster record .

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 5 років тому +1

    Hey now. One of the best songs ever!

  • @danielromanhernandez3201
    @danielromanhernandez3201 3 роки тому +13

    Solamente de la historia quedó el recuerdo esa si fue musica de discoteque De los años 70

  • @ramoncitoelbueno9631
    @ramoncitoelbueno9631 10 років тому

    Unfortunately, i was stuck in major traffic today and couldn't make it to the car wash. I did manage to dance my way out of a non-fatal car-wreck after hearing this, however. Love you Old Skul Jamz for making my weekend! Brazos desde Denver, CO, EU

  • @delderful4154
    @delderful4154 7 років тому +3

    The very best of Disco!

  • @harbarjr2026
    @harbarjr2026 7 років тому +2

    I was in the sixth-grade--wishing I was in the twelveth grade--when this song and movie came out. All could do was wait around the radio hoping WBLS, or 98.7 KISS FM, to play this song. Feeling outstanding when this song would finally play.

  • @littleogeechee223
    @littleogeechee223 4 роки тому +3

    I love this freaking film! One of the very best!

  • @musicaldisc4664
    @musicaldisc4664 7 місяців тому +1

    I feel Lucky to have Known the 70s
    There was Sooooo Much Soul & Funk!!!
    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @terrancesmith8642
    @terrancesmith8642 5 років тому +3

    Man one of the greatest songs that ever was written Carwash I work at the carwash and we play it everyday still in 2019

  • @shoeladyt
    @shoeladyt 9 років тому +2

    Living in Los Angeles California with the drought a car wash is a memory. If we don't get substantial rain soon the car wash will be closed down and we will only have this song to look back on.

  • @mrmaxxx94
    @mrmaxxx94 5 років тому +3

    One of the greatest songs from the late 70's,rose Royce are badd

  • @vicentesoler9266
    @vicentesoler9266 Рік тому +3

    Una canción que cuando empieza ya no puedes dejar de bailar con buenas voces bien conjuntadas y una música 🎶 excelente una maravilla de la música disco 👌 con mucha calidad colo era habitual en esos seis fantastica😊❤❤❤❤

  • @ricardolastre8240
    @ricardolastre8240 3 роки тому +3

    One of my all-time favorite songs!

  • @dansmith7106
    @dansmith7106 4 роки тому +2

    One of the best comedy movies of the 70s

  • @tammybam
    @tammybam 2 роки тому +6

    I love this song so much!it was one of my favourite ones to dance to when I was a teenager 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶❤

  • @sund5
    @sund5 4 роки тому +1

    Very nice song. Exquisite, delicate. 10/10 - Would listen to it agian.

  • @efachuks
    @efachuks 3 роки тому +19

    2021 and I'm here still jamming to this

  • @hi-xf7cj
    @hi-xf7cj 4 роки тому +2

    Afro's, bell bottoms, platform shoes, and my 8 track. Damn I miss the 70's.. 😂

  • @jessy2161
    @jessy2161 3 роки тому +4

    How can 904 people don’t like this song?

  • @claudiahansen4938
    @claudiahansen4938 2 роки тому

    Saw the movie when it came out in NY. Still have the LP and play it. It has staying power. I love it!

  • @charlenetubbs5231
    @charlenetubbs5231 4 роки тому +9

    Remembering the Rollerskating Rinks! Good Times. Luckily, never had any major breaks, bruises though. Still, Good Times!

    • @hi-xf7cj
      @hi-xf7cj 4 роки тому +1

      Skateland Roller Rink Detroit. It's 1975. Me and hubby skating backwards to "I Wanna Get Next to You" I miss the 70's..😟

    • @stevewalter1090
      @stevewalter1090 3 роки тому

      Oh yea! Roller rinks.
      Mine was Rollercade in Phoenix.
      Mom used to drive me and friends to it.