AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974

All lyrics from AWB album, popular Average White Band songs with tracklist and information about album.

The Average White Band is (L-R). Cliff Lyons - Alto sax, keyboards, vocals. Rob Aries - Keyboard, bass. 1975 The album AWB gains ‘Gold’ status (N. on Billboard Pop and R&B Album Charts) ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ (N. Billboard pop single) becomes a worldwide hit and receives a Grammy Nomination - 'Best R&B Instrumental Performance'. Now with black Brighton-born drummer Steve Ferrone on drums, the follow up Cut The Cake album is released. No 1 R&B album) and earns the band another Grammy Nomination - Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance – for the single 'Cut The Cake'. Person To Person (Live) is released, showcasing the.

Average White Band’s AWB. Posted on 23rd March 2016. We were in the process of making that second album for our first label, MCA. Went to their office in Los Angeles and they turned us down, turned the record down and almost turfed us out. We then played those same tapes to Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler and he signed us up on the spot. We then went on to remake the album for Atlantic and Pick Up The Pieces became the big, worldwide, hit, said band member, singer/bassist, Alan Gorrie. And how MCA must have been kicking themselves. Atlantic was, at the time, a major force in soul, R&B and funk but the Average White Band fitted in perfectly. Which was interesting because just about everyone on that label and everyone who heard their major hit, Pick Up The Pieces, were convinced that the band was black. Not so, this was a white ban. rom Scotland, of all places.

Show Your Hand is the first album by Scottish funk band Average White Band, likely recorded at . Jones Studios, Wimbledon, London and released in 1973 by MCA Records. After the success of AWB, the album was re-issued in 1975 with a new title, Put It Where You Want It, a different opening track and new cover artwork. The re-issued version finally made it to the Billboard Top 200, peaking at Side one. "The Jugglers" (Alan Gorrie) – 4:55.

Pick Up the Pieces (Average White Band song). It is essentially an instrumental, apart from the song's title being shouted at several points in the song.

AWB (album), a 1974 album by Average White Band. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board. The Average White Band (also AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track "Pick Up the Pieces", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett; the band backed Bramlett on her first solo outing, 1973's Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, an album that presaged the Disco movement, particularly with the track Crazy 'Bout My Baby played heavily in dance clubs.