AWB (album) explained

AWB
Type:studio
Artist:The Average White Band
Cover:AverageWhiteBandAWB.jpg
Released:August 1974
Recorded:1973–1974
Genre:Funk, soul
Length:40:24
Label:Atlantic
Producer:Arif Mardin
Prev Title:Show Your Hand
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:Cut the Cake
Next Year:1975

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

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.[1] 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)[2]

    Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

    Disc oneOriginal 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"[3]

    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 (United States)

    Album

    YearChartPosition
    1975RPM Canada 100[5] 2
    1975Billboard 2001

    Singles

    YearSingleChartPosition
    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

    See also

    References

    Notes and References

    1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000SZ5DY 2CD expanded re-issue listing at amazon.uk
    2. http://www.rhino.com/store/productdetail.lasso?number=71588 Rhino.com
    3. http://www.swapacd.com/cd/album/1391350-awb+bonus+tracks swapacd.com link
    4. Web site: discography at www.averagewhiteband.com . 2009-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090402061040/http://www.averagewhiteband.com/_discog/white.html . 2009-04-02 . dead .
    5. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums – March 1, 1975.

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