I'm Going Down (Rose Royce song)

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“I'm Going Down”

Single by Rose Royce
from the album Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Released

Recorded

Length

3:37

Writer(s)

Norman Whitfield

Rose Royce singles chronology

"Do Your Dance" (Part 1) (1977)

I'm Going Down (1977)

Wishing on a Star (1978)

I'm Going Down is a 1977 hit single by R&B/soul band Rose Royce, the single is from the film, Car Wash and it is featured on the film's soundtrack.

In 1994, exactly seventeen years later, Mary J. Blige recorded and sung her cover version of the song, and within weeks, the song became an instant groundbreaking hit, and is produced by then-producer Sean "Puffy" Combs (now known as P. Diddy), on her 1994 sophomore album, My Life released by MCA Records on November 29, 1994. the song went to the R&B charts, breaking at #7 and on the U.S. charts, landing at #14, and it was officially released as a single in early winter of 1995.

"Oh Boy" off of Cam'ron's third album Come Home With Me samples the original Rolls Royce song.

[edit] Music video

The music video for Mary J. Blige's "I'm Goin' Down" was directed by Matthew Rolston and features the video in Black and white-form, with Mary singing in a club, and wearing an-all black suit with a matching hat, walking downstairs (being duplicated over and over again).

“I'm Goin' Down”