AWB (album)

AWB
Studio album by The Average White Band
Released August 1974
Recorded Atlantic Recording Studios, NYC and Criteria Sound Studios, Miami
Genre Funk, soul
Length 40:24
Label Atlantic
Producer Arif Mardin
The Average White Band chronology
Show Your Hand
(1973)		 AWB
(1974)		 Cut the Cake
(1975)
alternative cover
Expanded 2CD re-issue cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974 (see 1974 in music). An enormous best-seller, AWB was the Average White Band's breakthrough record.

AWB topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Its million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces" knocked Linda Ronstadt's classic "You're No Good" out of #1 on Billboard's Hot 100.

A 2004 expanded re-issue from Sony/Columbia in the UK includes a bonus CD with several demo session recordings made before the group joined Atlantic Records – taken from the so-called 'clover sessions'.[2]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "You Got It" (Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie) – 3:38
  2. "Got the Love" (Stuart, Ball, Robbie McIntosh) – 3:52
  3. "Pick Up the Pieces" (Average White Band) – 3:58
  4. "Person to Person" (Average White Band) – 3:38
  5. "Work to Do" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 4:21
Side two
  1. "Nothing You Can Do" (Gorrie, Stuart, Ball) – 4:06
  2. "Just Wanna Love You Tonight" (Ball, Gorrie) – 3:57
  3. "Keepin' It to Myself" (Gorrie) – 3:52
  4. "I Just Can't Give You Up" (Stuart) – 3:24
  5. "There's Always Someone Waiting" (Gorrie) – 5:38

All songs arranged by Average White Band. All horn parts arranged by Roger Ball.

Bonus track on 1995 Rhino re-issue (Rhino 71588)
11. "Pick Up the Pieces" – 21:40 (from The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux)[3]
Bonus tracks on 2005 Columbia-Europe re-issue (Columbia 520204)
11. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"
12. "McEwan's Export"[4]

Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

Disc one

Original release

Disc two
  1. "Person to Person"
  2. "There's Always Someone Waiting"
  3. "McEwan's Export"
  4. "Got the Love"
  5. "Work to Do"
  6. "Just Want to Love You Tonight"
  7. "Pick Up the Pieces"
  8. "I Just Can't Give You Up"
  9. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"

Personnel

Average White Band

Additional musicians

Other musicians

(Live at Montreux bonus track)

Production

Other Album Notes

"AWB would like to express their deep appreciation to Jerry Wexler, Alan Pariser, and Bruce McCaskill"

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America)

Album

Year Chart Position
1975 Billboard 200 1

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1974 "Pick Up The Pieces" Disco Singles 10
1974 "Work To Do" 10
1975 "Pick Up The Pieces" Pop Singles 1
1975 "Pick Up The Pieces" Black Singles 5
Preceded by
Heart Like a Wheel by Linda Ronstadt		 Billboard 200 number-one album
February 22–28, 1975 		Succeeded by
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan

See also

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ 2CD expanded re-issue listing at amazon.uk
  3. ↑ Rhino.com
  4. ↑ swapacd.com link
  5. ↑ discography at www.averagewhiteband.com
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