Rose Royce was an American soul and disco band formed in Los Angeles in 1973. The group originally consisted of Gwen Dickey (lead vocals), Henry Garner, Terry Santiel, Michael Moore, Kenny Copeland, Lequeint “Duke” Jobe, Michael Nash, Freddie Dunn, and later trumpet player Bill Brown. One of the group’s hit songs was “Best Love,” released in 1978 from the album Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!. It reached No. 8 on the US Billboard R&B chart, No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart, and charted in the Netherlands, Belgium, and New Zealand. Rose Royce first achieved worldwide fame with the soundtrack album “Car Wash” in 1976. The album reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The title track “Car Wash” became a global smash hit, reaching No. 1 in the United States, No. 9 in the United Kingdom, and Top 10 positions across Europe and Australia. Other major hits followed, including “I Wanna Get Next to You”, “Wishing on a Star”, “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” (on our channel), “Do Your Dance” and “Is It Love You’re After (on our channel).” Their albums “In Full Bloom” (1977), “Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!” (1978) and “Rainbow Connection IV” (1979) all achieved international chart success. Even after lineup changes and Gwen Dickey’s departure in the early 1980s, Rose Royce continued touring internationally and had hits with “R.R. Express” (1981, on our channel). This recording is from the Dutch tv program "Voetballer van het jaar 1982” and broadcast on May 8, 1982.Watch our great music videos ? https://goo.gl/feVLNNMore TopPop? Subscribe here ? https://goo.gl/X9FOAUMore info on Wikipedia ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopPopBroadcast date: May 8, 1982.This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.AVROTROS BroadcastingPO Box 21200 JA HilversumThe NetherlandsTopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
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