AWB (album)

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AWB
AverageWhiteBandAWB.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1974
Recorded1973-1974
Studio
Genre Funk, soul
Length40:24
Label Atlantic
Producer Arif Mardin
The Average White Band chronology
Show Your Hand
(1973)
AWB
(1974)
Cut the Cake
(1975)
alternative cover
AverageWhiteBand AWB2CD.jpg
Expanded 2CD re-issue cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide A− [2]
Tom Hull – on the Web B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [3]

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

Contents

AWB topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Its million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces" knocked Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" out of #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. In Canada, the album was #2 for 3 weeks to Elton John's Greatest Hits.

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," recorded at Clover Studios, Los Angeles, CA, in 1973. [4] This album was eventually released as "How Sweet Can You Get?"

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 ) [5]

Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

Disc one

Original release

Disc two - The Clover Sessions / How Sweet Can You Get?
  1. "Person to Person"
  2. "Keepin' It To Myself"
  3. "There's Always Someone Waiting"
  4. "McEwan's Export"
  5. "Got the Love"
  6. "Work to Do"
  7. "Just Want to Love You Tonight"
  8. "Pick Up the Pieces"
  9. "I Just Can't Give You Up"
  10. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"
Bonus tracks on 2005 Columbia-Europe re-issue (Columbia 520204)
11. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"
12. "McEwan's Export" [6]

Personnel

Average White Band

Additional musicians

Other musicians

(Live at Montreux bonus track)

Production

  • Gene Paulmixing, engineering (NYC)
  • Lewis Hahn – engineering (NYC)
  • Karl Richardson – engineering (Miami)
  • Steve Klein – engineering (Miami)
  • Ron Albert – engineering (Miami)
  • Howard Albert – engineering (Miami)
  • Jimmy Douglass – engineering (additional recording)
  • Bobby Warner – engineering (additional recording)
  • Dennis King – mastering engineer
  • Arif Mardinproduction, mixing
  • Alan Pariser – direction
  • Alan Gorrie – logo concept
  • Tim Bruckner – front cover drawing
  • Barry Feinsteindesign & photography

Other Album Notes

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

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (United States)

Album

YearChartPosition
1975 RPM Canada 100 [8] 2
1975Billboard 2001

Singles

YearSingleChartPosition
1974"Pick Up The Pieces"Disco Singles10
1974"Work To Do"10
1975"Pick Up The Pieces"Pop Singles1
1975"Pick Up The Pieces"Black Singles5

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