1972 McIntyre and McIntosh record live with Chuck Berry at The Lanchester Arts Festival. 1975 The album AWB gains ‘Gold’ status (No.1 on Billboard Pop and R&B Album Charts) ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ (No.1 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. McIntosh was replaced by Steve Ferrone (previously of Bloodstone), and, like McIntosh, previously with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. The live album from the festival is released later that year; the highlight being a big band version of 'Pieces' arranged and conducted by Arif Mardin, The all-star line-up includes Randy and Michael Brecker, Don Ellis, Herbie Mann, Sonny Fortune, Jim Mullen, Dick Morrisey. This is in essence one half of the original Average White Band. Eric Clapton and Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney & Bonnie) helped them on their way to becoming a household name. Current membersAlan Gorrie – guitars, vocals, bass (1972–1983, 1989–present)Owen "Onnie" McIntyre – guitars, vocals (1972–1983, 1989–present)Fred Vigdor – tenor saxophone, keyboards (1996–present)Rocky Bryant – drums (2006–present)Brent Carter – vocals (2011–present)Rob Aries – bass, keyboards (2013–present)Cliff Lyons – alto saxophone (2015–present), Former membersRoger Ball – alto saxophone, keyboards (1972–1983, 1989–1996)Malcolm "Molly" Duncan – tenor saxophone (1972–1983)Robbie McIntosh – drums (1972–1974; his death)Michael Rosen – trumpet (1972)Hamish Stuart – guitar, bass, vocals (1972–1983)Steve Ferrone – drummer (1974–1983)Eliot Lewis – keyboards, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals (1989–2002)Peter Ramsey – Keyboard (1989–1999)Tiger McNeil – drums (1989–1994)Alex Ligertwood – vocals (1989)Peter Abbott – drums (1994–1998)Fred "Catfish" Alias – drums (1998–1999)Adam Deitch – drums (1999–2001)Brian Dunne – drums (2001–2006)Klyde Jones – guitar, keyboards, vocals (2002–2011)Morris Pleasure – keyboard, bass, guitar (2011, 2013)Monte Croft – keyboard, bass, guitar (2011–2013), Studio albumsYear Album UK US1973 Show Your Hand – 3911974 AWB 6 11975 Cut the Cake 28 41976 Soul Searching 60 91977 Benny & Us (w/Ben E. King) – 331978 Warmer Communications – 281979 Feel No Fret 15 321980 Shine 14 1161982 Cupid's in Fashion – 2021989 Aftershock – –1997 Soul Tattoo – –2003 Living in Colour – –2018 Inside Out – –, Live albumsYear Album UK US1976 Person to Person (Double Album) – 281999 Face to Face – –2006 Soul & the City – –2011 Live at Montreux 1977 (recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 10, 1977) – –2013 Times Squared (recorded at B. AWB are widely regarded as one of the best soul and funk bands in the history of music. The current lineup of the band, with noted US musicians alongside founding members Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre, continues to delight audiences and critics alike in its wide - ranging touring. Boogie Down Productions’s 'Ya Know the Rules' Cash Crew’s 'U Can't Stop This' Jurassic 5’s 'Unified Rebellion' The LOX’s 'The Heist (pt 1)', Average White Band : 'Pick up the Pieces' Awesome Dre’s 'You Can't Hold Me Back' Cash Money & Marvelous’s 'Who's in the Place?' 1967LONDON Gorrie joins McIntyre in the Scots of St James, who work mostly backing visiting American soul artists, they tour Germany playing clubs and US military bases. Alex Ligertwood (ex-Santana, Jeff Beck Group and another veteran of Brian Auger's Oblivion Express) also appeared on this album, replacing lead singer Hamish Stuart, along with Eliot Lewis who co-wrote with Gorrie and joined the band. The reaction to their own set however, gives Gorrie the idea that with the right line-up, U.S. tours may be possible. Soul-influenced Scottish funk band who produced hits including 1974's "Pick Up the Pieces." 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. 1980Shine (Produced by David Foster) is AWB’s debut for Arista /RCA and includes UK hits ‘For You, For Love’, and ‘Let's Go Round Again’ (No.12 in the UK) and has the longest stay in the charts of any single that year. Gorrie & McIntyre have two albums with RCA as Forever More, Stuart is with The Dream Police, Duncan and Ball with Mike Rosen on trumpet (dubbed 'The Dundee Horns' by Maggie Bell), are now in demand as a horn section. He is the curator, along with partner Claire Houlihan and friend Tom Sutton-Roberts, of the annual mOare Music festival, held in the village of Oare , Faversham , Kent . Average White Band (or AWB) is a Scottish funk and R&B band formed in London in early 1972 that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Cliff Lyons -- Alto sax, keyboards, vocals, Fred "Freddy V" Vigdor -- Tenor Sax, keyboards,vocals. Dunne was replaced by Rocky Bryant as drummer as of the 2006 tour. The NME reported in January 1975 that AWB played a benefit show for McIntosh's widow at the Marquee Club in London. AWB was formed in early 1972 in London by Alan Gorrie, and Malcolm "Molly" Duncan, with Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Michael Rosen (trumpet), Roger Ball, and Robbie McIntosh joining them in the original line-up. Luke’s 'Cowardz in Compton' Mellow Man Ace’s 'Gettin' Stupid' Public Enemy’s 'Air Hoodlum' Puff Daddy ft Foxxy Brown’s 'Friend' South Central Cartel’s 'Ya Getz Clowned' Steady B’s 'Stone Cold Hustler' Tim Dog’s 'Goin Wild in the Penile' Yo-Yo’s 'Put a Lid on It' YZ’s 'Thinkin' of a Master Plan', Cut The Cake : ''Schoolboy Crush' AMG’s 'Once a Dawg (Janine 2)' Artifacts’s 'What Goes On?' In his book The Rhythm And The Blues Wexler says "They hit me where I lived, their tape was great and I wanted to sign them on the spot! They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track "Pick Up the Pieces", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. McCaskill had many contacts from his days with Clapton and managed to get Atlantic Records to sign them. Read Full Biography. Roger Ball has retired from touring. They continue to perform. The group initially disbanded by 1983. 1 and was the first of many with renowned producer Arif Mardin. All the singles and albums of AVERAGE WHITE BAND, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news. According to Duncan, members of the band had played together before in Scotland, but had moved to London separately and met up by chance at a Traffic concert. In September on the last night of a triumphant week at The Troubadour, drummer Robbie McIntosh dies of a drug related incident at a celebratory Hollywood party. ('Nothing You Can Do' and You Got It') are written before flying down to start recording at Miami's Criteria Studios.NEW YORK The difference in sound between the LA tapes and the new Miami sessions result in the original MCA tracks being re-recorded. He was then succeeded by Peter Abbott (ex-Blood Sweat and Tears), who in turn was replaced by Fred "Catfish" Alias in September 1998. Average White Band. McNeil was with the group until 1994. and a startling visit from a young Robbie McIntosh on drums. Regulars include Maggie Bell, Frankie Miller, Jimmy Dewar, and Alex Ligertwood. Back together after all … Ball worked on Soul Tattoo with the group but was replaced by Fred Vigdor (aka Freddy V.) in 1996. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Average White Band among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.Malcolm "Molly" Duncan – tenor saxophone (1972–1983) died in 2019. 12), was covered in the late 1990s by Louise. The Average White Band (ou AWB) é uma banda escocesa de funk e R&B que emplacou diversos sucessos disco entre 1974 e 1980. Pitiful' Bobby Jimmy’s 'Erotic Psychotic' Boss’s 'Recipe of a Hoe' Brand Nubian’s 'Word is Bond' Brothers Like Outlaw’s 'Trapped into Darkness' Changing Faces’s 'I Got Somebody Else' Downtown Science’s 'Something Spankin' New' EPMD’s 'Richter Scale' Funkmaster Flex’s 'Sad and Blue' Insane Poetry’s 'Angel of Death' Low Profile’s 'That's Why They. 19th July 1946, Perth, Scotland; bass, vocals); Mike Rosen (trumpet, guitar); replaced by Hamish Stuart (b. 'Walk On By'# 32 R&B single (Billboard), # 18 UK chart. 70's classic soul, "A Love Of Your Own" performed by the Average White Band.1976 Line-up includes 23 year old, Adam Deitch in the drum chair. Their line-up as of 2002 became Alan Gorrie (bass guitar, guitar, lead and backing vocals), Klyde Jones (keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, lead and backing vocals), Onnie McIntyre (guitar, vocals), Freddy V (sax, keyboards, vocals), and Brian Dunne (drums). (No 1 R&B album) and earns the band another Grammy Nomination - Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance – for the single 'Cut The Cake', 1976 AWB’s biggest US-selling (platinum) album Soul Searching is released (No 2 R&B album), spawning hit single 'Queen of My Soul'. They have influenced others such as the Brand New Heavies, and been sampled by various musicians including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, TLC, The Beatnuts, Too Short, Ice Cube, Eric B. Beatnuts’s 'Ya Don't Stop' Color Me Badd’s 'Thinkin' Back' De la Soul’s 'Do as De La Does' De la Soul’s 'Strictly Dan Stuckie' Diana King’s 'Shy Guy' DJ Eclipse’s 'Dedication' Double XX Posse’s 'School of Hard Knocks' EPMD’s 'Can't Hear Nothing but the Music' EPMD’s 'Give the People' Eric B and Rakim’s 'Microphone Fiend' Father MC’s 'One Night Stand' Fresh Kid Ice’s 'From da Bottom to Da Top' Immature’s 'Do My Thing' Janet Jackson’s 'New Agenda' Kwame’s 'Thatthewaydatitgoez' Lench Mob’s 'You and Your Heroes' Nas’s 'Halftime' Public Enemy’s 'Pollywanacraka' Ras Kass’s 'Soul on Ice' Rodney O & Joe Cooley’s 'Nutty Block' South Central Cartel’s 'Bring it On' Special Ed’s 'Think about It' TLC’s 'Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg' Too $hort’s 'Life is Too $hort' X-Clan’s 'Grand Verbalizer, What Time is It?' He is a former original member of the Average White Band (AWB). It was both a tribute to AWB's knowledge of funk and a tongue-in-cheek play on the Scottish band's name. Gorrie, Ball, and McIntyre reformed Average White Band in 1989, tapping vocalist Alex Ligertwood for their comeback effort Aftershock. This is in essence one half of the original AWB. 25th September 1945, Lennoxtown, Scotland; guitar); Malcolm 'Mollie' Duncan (b. Two original members Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre are part of the new version of AWB. As of 2019, Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre are the only two original members left in the Average White Band. Drummer Adam Deitch did a two-year stint with AWB from 1999 to 2001. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track "Pick Up the Pieces", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. – – – – Atlantic Records K 10778 (UK)"Queen of My Soul" b/w "Would You Stay" 23 40 21 – Atlantic Records K 10825 (UK) / 45-3354 (US, as AWB)"A Love of Your Own" b/w "Soul Searching" – 101 35 – Atlantic Records K 10880 (UK) / 45-3363 (US, as AWB)1977 "Cloudy" b/w "Love Your Life" – – 55 – Atlantic Records 45-3388 (US, as AWB)"Goin' Home" b/w "I'm the One – – – – Atlantic Records K 10912 (UK)"Get It Up" b/w "Keepin' It to Myself" – – 21 – Atlantic Records 3402 (US, as AWB and Ben E. King)"A Star In the Ghetto" b/w "Keepin' It to Myself"(US b-side: "What Is Soul") – – 25 – Atlantic Records K 10977 (UK, as Average White Band and Ben E. King)Atlantic Records 3427 (US, as AWB and Ben E. King)"The Message" b/w "Fool for You Anyway – – – – Atlantic Records 3444 (US, as AWB and Ben E. King)"Imagine" b/w "What Is Soul" – – – – Atlantic Records K 11019 (UK, as AWB and Ben E. King)1978 "One Look Over My Shoulder (Is This Really Goodbye? Robert Broderick James McIntosh (6 May 1950 – 23 September 1974) was a Scottish drummer from Dundee, who was a founder-member of the Average White Band (AWB). Average White Band has continued recording (1997's Soul Tattoo, 1999's Face to Face) and touring since. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Average White Band among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. AWB followed up with the LPs Cut the Cake (1975) and Soul Searching (1976), both big sellers and yielding further Top 40 singles. Malcolm "Molly" Duncan – tenor saxophone (1972–1983) died in 2019. Stephen Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994–2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average White Band in the 1970s. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Onnie McIntyre and Hamish Stuart gig and frequent The Picasso Club, a live music, after-hours R&B haven where musicians can try out new material, jam, hangout and/or dance to the best soul tracks imported directly from Atlantic, Stax, Motown etc. In July 2015, Malcolm ‘Molly’ Duncan, Steve Ferrone and Hamish Stuart reunited to form The 360 Band. 1973 After a long hiatus, Eric Clapton stages his comeback performance, dubbed the Rainbow Concert, it is one of the most highly anticipated music industry events in years. 1965-66PERTH, SCOTLANDAlan Gorrie co-founds the ‘Blue Workshop’ as a place for musicians to interchange line-ups and explore the jazzier side of R&B. It reached No. The next album would have to be recorded in the States. Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (Live At Montreux 1977) Watch later. Brent Carter (ex-Tower of Power) has been singing with AWB since 2011. The classic lineup of Gorrie, McIntyre, Ball, Stuart, Duncan and Ferrone reunited for one last time at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary in 1988. 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. TelevisionTHAT '70s SHOWTHE AINSLEY HARRIOTT SHOWARLI$$ THE BERNIE MAC SHOWBET ON JAZZTHE CAROL BURNETT SHOWTHE CHRIS ROCK SHOWCLASSIC SPORTS CENTURYELLEN DEGENERES SHOWGOOD TIMESHUFFIN LIVING COLORJIMMY KIMMEL LIVELATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIENTHE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMANMTV'S FAST, INC. -ONE DAY AT A TIMETHE PJ'sSATURDAY NIGHT LIVESHOWTIME IN HARLEM! Changing Faces’s 'I Got Somebody Else' Chris Rock ft ODB’s 'Me & ODB' Doug E Fresh’s 'On the Strength' Public Enemy’s 'Night of the Living Baseheads' Real Roxanne’s 'Her Bad Self' Steady B’s 'Certified Dope' Stezo’s 'Jimmy's Gettin' Funky' Stezo’s 'Talking Sense' Style’s 'Set the Mood' Tim Dog’s 'You Ain't Shit' YZ ft G Rock’s 'In the Party''Person to Person' Big Daddy Kane’s 'Mr. AWB (Gold Album)# 1 Pop Album (Billboard)# 1 R&BAlbum (Billboard), Cut The Cake (Gold Album)# 1 R&B Album (Billboard)# 4 PopAlbum (Billboard), Soul Searching (Platinum Album)# 2 R&B Album (Billboard)# 9 PopAlbum (Billboard), Benny and US (with Ben E. King)# 9 R&B Album(Billboard)# 28 PopAlbum(Billboard), Warmer Communications (Gold album)# 12 R&B Album (Billboard), 'Pick Up The Pieces'# 1 PopSingle (Billboard) # 5 R&B Single (Billboard)# 6 U.K. chartGrammy Nomination - 'Best R&B Instrumental Performance', 'Cut The Cake' # 7 R&B single (Billboard)Grammy Nomination – 'Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance', 'Schoolboy Crush'# 22 R&B single (Billboard), 'Soul Searching' # 4 Dance Single (Billboard), 'Get it Up For Love'# 21 R&B Single (Billboard), 'A Star in The Ghetto' # 25 R&B Single (Billboard). The Average White Band’s breakthrough was a support slot at Eric Clapton’s comeback concert in 1973. The band is now touring extensively. Back when there were still six of us - Steve Ferrone, Molly and myself started working together as the '360band', doing a couple of short UK tours and one album together. They released an album titled "Three Sixty" in 2017 and have been performing live together along with supporting musicians. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Hamish Stuart, in particular, goes on to work with David Sanborn, Chaka Khan, and (most notably) Paul McCartney. Shopping. Show Your Hand : 'The Jugglers' Ice Cube’s 'What They Hittin' Foe?' King's, New York, NY, March 18, 2009) – –2015 Access All Areas (recorded at Nottingham's Theatre Royal, summer 1980) – –2016 AWB R&B – –, Compilation albumsYear Album UK US1980 Volume VIII (5 Hits + 4 Unreleased songs) – 1821992 Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Best of Average White Band – –1994 The Best of the Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again 38 –1997 Pick Up the Pieces and Other Hits - –2005 Greatest & Latest – –2006 The Very Best Of – –2009 Pick Up the Pieces (The Very Best Of) – –2014 All the Pieces - The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2003 – –2019 Gold 99 –, SinglesYear Single (a-side b/w b-side) UK US R&B AUS Comments1973 "Put It Where You Want It" b/w "Reach Out" – – – – MCA Records MUS 1187 (UK)"Show Your Hand" b/w "The Jugglers" – – – – MCA Records MUS 1208 (UK)"This World Has Music" b/w "The Jugglers" – – – – MCA Records MCA-40168 (US)1974 "How Can You Go Home" b/w "Twilight Zone" – – – – MCA Records MCA 102 (UK)"Pick Up The Pieces" b/w "You Got It" (US b-side: "Work to Do") 6 1 5 38 Atlantic Records K 10489 (UK) / 45-3229 (US, as AWB)"Nothing You Can Do" b/w "I Just Can't Give You Up" – – – – Atlantic Records K 10498 (UK) / 45-3044 (US, as AWB)1975 "Cut the Cake" b/w "Person to Person" 31 10 7 – Atlantic Records K 10605 (UK) / 45-3261 (US, as AWB)"How Can You Go Home" b/w "Twilight Zone" – – – – MCA Records MCA 186 (UK, re-issue)"Twilight Zone" b/w "How Can You Go Home" – – – – MCA Records MCA-40196 (US)"If I Ever Lose This Heaven" b/w "High Flyin' Woman" – 39 25 – Atlantic Records K 10655 (UK) / 45-3285 (US, as AWB)"School Boy Crush" b/w "Groovin' the Night Away" – 33 22 – Atlantic Records K 10701 (UK) / 45-3304 (US, as AWB)1976 "Everybody's Darling" b/w "Why?" Their next LP, Benny & Us, was a collaboration with Ben E. King. Bruce McCaskill, who was Clapton's tour manager, liked the band's music and agreed to manage them. Brian Dunne took over the drum chair in 2001 and when Eliot Lewis left the band in September 2002 to pursue other musical opportunities (including a stint with Hall and Oates), he was replaced by Klyde Jones. Share. The song knocked Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" out of No. After Jones left in 2011 to join Hall and Oates, Monte Croft (keyboards, bass, guitar) and former Earth Wind and Fire member Morris Pleasure (keyboards, bass, guitar) came in to do brief stints before Rob Aries arrived in 2013. McIntosh died of a heroin overdose at a Los Angeles party on 23 September 1974. 8th October 1949, Glasgow, Scotland; guitar, vocals); Owen 'Onnie' McIntyre (b. As of 2019, Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre are the only two original members left in the Average White Band. Hamish Stuart quickly replaced Rosen. Gorrie also overdosed, but Cher kept him conscious until medical help arrived. 1989AWB reforms with original members Gorrie, McIntyre and Ball, and are joined by multi-instrumentalist Eliot Lewis to record Aftershock , a new studio album with guest appearances by Chaka Kahn, Ronnie Laws and Alex Ligertwood. 19th July 1946, Perth, Scotland; bass, vocals); Mike Rosen (trumpet, guitar); replaced by Hamish Stuart (b. Bonnie Bramlett of (Delany & Bonnie) hears the new rehearsal tapes and flies AWB to Los Angeles to start work on her first solo albumSweet Bonnie Bramlett. Nevertheless, with record sales gradually dwindling, 1982 found Average White Band disbanding - only to later reunite in 1989 with original members Gorrie, McIntyre and Ball in tow. AWB performs and receives rave reviews. 1977Benny & Us with Ben E. King is released as a partnership album featuring the ex-Drifters front-man on lead vocals (No. Hamish Stuart, (doubling on guitar and bass) is brought in to replace trumpeter Rosen. 1979Feel No Fret (self-produced by AWB) is released, featuring hit singles ‘Walk On By’ and ‘Atlantic Avenue’. The band is flown to Atlantic Studios in N.Y. Gene Paul (son of Les) is assigned as the engineer best equipped to capture their sound. 'Reach Out' Boogie Down Productions’s 'House Niggas' Ice Cube’s 'Steady Mobbin'' Lifer's Group’s 'Jack U. 2002AWB releases Tonight live concert DVD. & Rakim, Nas, and A Tribe Called Quest, Christina Milian, as well as Arrested Development – making them the 15th most sampled act in history. Gorrie and McIntyre had been members of Forever More. Kings in New York City. The band's breakthrough was a support slot at Eric Clapton's comeback concert in 1973. Somewhat incongruously, given their Scottish roots, the six piece took the influences of their R&B heroes - people like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Donny Hathaway and others - and developed their own 'authentic' sound which was eagerly adopted by black audiences in the US and elsewhere. Average White Band (also AWB) is a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They released an album titled Three Sixty in 2017 and have been performing live together along with supporting musicians. Filmed at The House Of Blues LA in 2001. Average White Band. AWB is chosen to form the nucleus of Atlantic’s All-Stars at The Montreux Jazz Festival. Steve Ferrone fills drum chair for George Benson, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and many others. Roger Ball leaves the band and recommends sax man, Fred ‘Freddy V’ Vigdor. )"b/w "Big City Lights" – – – – RCA Records XB 9270 (UK)"Your Love Is A Miracle" b/w "One Look Over My Shoulder" – – 33 – Atlantic Records 3481 (US, as AWB)"Big City Lights" b/w "She's a Dream" – – – – Atlantic Records 3500 (US, as AWB)1979 "Atlantic Avenue" b/w "She's a Dream" – – – – RCA Records XB 1061 (UK)"Walk on By" b/w "Too Late to Cry" 46 92 – – RCA Records XB 1087 (UK) / Atlantic Records 3563 (US, as AWB)"Feel No Fret" b/w "Fire Burning" – – – – Atlantic Records 3581 (US, as AWB)"When Will You Be Mine" b/w "Ace of Hearts" 49 – 33 – RCA Records XB 1096 (UK) / Atlantic Records 3614 (US, as AWB)1980 "Let's Go Round Again" Part I b/w "Let's Go Round Again" Part II(US b-side: "Help Is on the Way") 12 53 33 – RCA Records AWB-1 (UK) /Arista Records AS 0515 (US)"For You, for Love" b/w "Help Is on the Way"(US b-side: "Whatcha Gonna Do for Me") 46 101 60 – RCA Records AWB-2 (UK) /Arista Records AS 0553 (US)"Into the Night" b/w "Catch Me (Before I Have to Testify)" – – – – Arista Records AS 0580 (US)1982 "Easier Said Than Done" b/w "Isn't It Strange" – – – – Arista Records AS 0679 (US)"Cupid's in Fashion" b/w "Theatre of Excess" – – – – Arista Records AS 1022 (US)1986 "Cut the Cake" (re-issue) 45 – 34 66 Arista Records AS 1355 (UK)1988 "The Spirit of Love" (12" single): Radio Short Version / Beat Mix /Long Beat Mix b/w Dance Mix / New York Mix – – – – Polydor PZ 56 (UK) / Track Record Company 58831 (US)featuring Chaka Khan and Ronnie Laws1994 "Let's Go Round Again" (12" single): 12" CCN Remix / 7" CCN Remixb/w 12" CCN Alternative Mix / Original Mix 56 – – – The Hit Label HLC 5 (UK)Other contributionsUp (1976) – Morrissey–MullenThe Atlantic Family Live at Montreux (1977)Wish You Were Here (1974) – Average White Horns on "Just a Chance" and "Should I Smoke" – arranged by Roger Ball, BibliographyThe New Musical Express Book of Rock, 1975, Star Books, ISBN 0-352-30074-4. Stuart leaves to form Dream Police in Glasgow. Members undertake various solo projects and session work. After their first gig however, Gorrie decides that his vocal approach demands a second lead singer with a strong falsetto. 1971 Gorrie books studio time in Denmark Street Studios and with the Dundee Horns, McIntyre and McIntosh, record three original songs; the results are such that they immediately decide to form the band and look for management. 9 talking about this. 9 R&B Album). Perfil: Original Members: Alan Gorrie (b. Though perhaps best known for their timeless instrumental mega-hit 'Pick Up the Pieces' the band's strength actually lay in their consistently accomplished song-writing, stretching across several gold selling albums and multi- grammy nominations for the legendary Atlantic Records. AVERAGE WHITE BAND ON TOUR . They find Robin Turner (via Robert Stigwood) who in turn persuades film actor Stanley Baker to finance the project. Oft-sampled by hip-hop producers throughout the 1990s, the group continued touring prior to releasing Soul Tattoo in 1996. B. 2007-PRESENTThe band continues to tour extensively across North America with appearances in the UK, Japan, South Africa and elsewhere. The band relocated to Los Angeles and released the follow-up, AWB, better known as The White Album. 2005Greatest & Latest released, a retrospective of post 1989 material, featuring both live and studio cuts including an instrumental remake of 'Work To Do' which becomes a nationwide hit on Smooth Jazz Radio. 1998Live album, Face To Face recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, showcasing new AWB members. Duncan and Ball, affectionately known as the Dundee Horns, studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (now part of the University of Dundee, but which at the time was part of the Dundee Institute of Art and Technology, now known as Abertay University), and were previously members of Mogul Thrash. Volume VIII is released on Atlantic, and contains four previously unreleased songs on side one, and a Best Of selection on side two. Back (So You Wanna Be a Gangsta)' Lifer's Group’s 'Rise or Fall' Prince Paul’s 'Steady Slobbin'' Yo-Yo’s 'Put a Lid on It' 'T.L.C.' Cut the Cake was dedicated by the surviving band members to McIntosh's memory. The musical energy and trademark sound are remarkably true to the original, and with constant revisitations and re-workings of AWB's, and others' classics in the mix, it is no surprise that the Average White Band is now a multi - generational attraction, and a perennial fixture with so many of the top music venues. LOS ANGELESCommonly known as The White Album, the eponymous AWB album is released in August. In 1975, the single "Pick Up the Pieces" – taken from the No. Person To Person (Live) is released, showcasing the band in live performance, playing arena sized venues, to enthusiastic, predominately black audiences. Many more tunes, such as 'Cloudy', 'A Love Of Your Own' and 'Nothing You Can Do' - amongst many others- stand alongside some of the finest soul 'album tracks' ever recorded. 1983 – 1988AWB disband. Find similar artists to Average White Band and discover new music. Having previously played in Forever More, Gorrie and Owen "Onnie" McIntyre formed the Average White Band in London in 1971. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for AWB - Average White Band on AllMusic - 1974 - After debuting with 1973's excellent but… Find Average White Band credit information on AllMusic AllMusic. AWB - 17.06.2000Matteo Negri: http://www.villaggiomusicale.com/artista/matteo-negri Alan Edward Gorrie (born 19 July 1946 in Perth) is a Scottish bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and singer.He is a founding member of the Average White Band and remains one of two original members in the group's current line-up.. History. The result, Show Your Hand is released on both sides of the Atlantic to 'much acclaim and cult status' but does not cross over into mainstream.