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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. They have influenced others such as the Brand New Heavies, and been sampled by various musicians including the Beastie Boys, TLC, The Beatnuts, Too Short, Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Nas, and A Tribe Called Quest, Christina Milian, as well as Arrested Development - making them the 15th most sampled act in history. As of 2017, 45 years after their formation, they continue to perform.

Below is a list of Average White Band songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Atlantic 3229
chart position: RandB #5, US #1, UK #6, US AC #45, US dance #11
written by: Roger Ball & Hamish Stuart
album: AWB The Average White Band
comments: [funk jazz instrumental]
Average White Band Pick Up the Pieces
1974 Atlantic
2 record label: Atlantic 10467
chart position: RandB #7, US #10, UK #31
written by: White, Alan Gorrie & McIntosh
album: Cut the Cake
comments: [funk]
Average White Band Cut the Cake
1975 Atlantic
3 record label: Arista 0515
chart position: RandB #40, UK #12, US #53, US dance #24
written by: Alan Gorrie
album: Shine
comments: [disco funk]
Average White Band Let's Go Round Again
1980 Arista
4 record label: Atlantic 3354
chart position: RandB #21, UK #23, US #40
written by: Hamish Stuart
album: Soul Searching
Average White Band Queen of My Soul
1976 Atlantic
5 record label: Atlantic 3304
chart position: RandB #22 US #33
written by: Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Stephen Ferrone and Onnie McIntyre
album: Cut The Cake
Average White Band School Boy Crush
1975 Atlantic
6 record label: Atlantic 10655
chart position: RandB #25, US #39
written by: Leon Ware and Pam Sawyer
album: Cut the Cake
Average White Band If I Ever Lose This Heaven
1975 Atlantic
7 record label: Atlantic 3563
chart position: RandB #32, UK #46, US #92
written by: Burt Bacharach and Hal David
album: Feel no Fret
Average White Band Walk On By
1979 Atlantic
8 record label: RCA 2
chart position: RandB #60, UK #46, US #106
written by: Roger Ball and Bill Champlin
album: Shine
Average White Band For You, For Love
1980 RCA
9 record label: Atlantic 3363
chart position: RandB #35, US #101
written by: Hamish Stuart and Ned Doheny
album: Soul Searching
Average White Band A Love of Your Own
1976 Atlantic
10 record label: Atlantic 3481
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Stephen Ferrone and Onnie McIntyre
album: Warmer Communications
Average White Band Your Love Is A Miracle
1978 Atlantic
11 record label: Polydor 56
chart position: RandB #47
written by: Eliot Lewis
album: Aftershock
Average White Band The Spirit of Love
1988 Polydor
12 record label: Atlantic 3388
chart position: RandB #55
written by: Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley
Average White Band Cloudy
1977 Atlantic
-- record label: Arista 580
written by: A. Gorrie, H. Stuart, R. Ball
album: Shine
Average White Band Into The Night
1980 Arista
-- record label: Atlantic 7308
album: AWB
comments: [album cut]
Average White Band Keepin it to Myself
1974 Atlantic
-- record label: RCA 1096
written by: Gorrie, White
album: Feel No Fret
Average White Band When Will You Be Mine
1979 RCA
-- record label: Atlantic 10489 (UK)
written by: Ball, Stewart, Gorrie
album: AWB
Average White Band You Got It
1974 Atlantic
-- record label: RCA Victor 1061 (UK)
written by: A. Gorrie, S. Ferrone
album: Feel No Fret
Average White Band Atlantic Avenue
1979 RCA Victor
-- record label: Atlantic 3044
written by: A. Gorrie, H. Stuart, R. Ball
album: AWB
Average White Band Nothing You Can Do
1974 Atlantic




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