Pretty good for a bunch of white guys from Scotland!! (I know the drummer's a black guy, but he was a later, & very welcome, addition to the band!) AWB was a great favourite on Soul Train, in the early 70's, & unlike some bands, they ALWAYS performed live!! What can I say? If you got it, you GOT it!! 😍
My AWB suggestions School Boy Crush If I Ever Lose This Heaven Cut The Cake Pick Up The Pieces Person to Person These guys from Scotland are funky Enjoy
@fernando5648 it appears you are taking my comments personally. What does that have to do that this band was popular in the black community? I didn't say just the black community.
The AWB were far from average back in the day. One of the funkiest bands anywhere. Their first four albums were/are national treasures here in the UK and they have a mix of love ballads, hard funk and everything in between (with funk). Most people only know their chart hit singles 'Pick Up The Pieces' and 'Cut The Cake' but they are only the tip of the iceberg of gems. Do yourselves a favour guys, buy their albums, 'Show Your Hand 1st album', 'AWB', 'Cut The Cake' and 'Soul Searching'. You will be amazed.
I had all the cuts back in the seventies I remember cut the cake lol been loving that group forever Waldorf you know what's up I salute your taste when music was real and you know your classics don't get me wrong I like how music just changes today music I'm still jamming ppl ten to forget this new generation lol dam I'm sounding like my parents back in the day aww hell lol
@@monicaross141 yep Sara smile girl we see as looking at the comments we see y'all know what time it was back in the days now we know you real you done said that song which we thought no body remember ooo chaa
This is your Parents music. I'm 62 and was in High School when this came out. That was my time. AWB, Con Funk Shun, Bar kays, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, just to name a few. Peace from the SF Bay Area Cali.
I was lucky enough that one of my regular bars in Downtown Pasadena, early 70's, the Loch Ness Monster also had live music almost every might of the week, a pool table, & Guiness Beer on tap because the owner was Scottish, & even then I avoided Butt-Wiper beer & this is where I discovered European Beers & by chance come to briefly hang with the Average White Band before & when their fame started. There was a back patio with a door to the alley among the empty Industrial buildings around the bar which is why Pasadena let the bar get loud. One of my favorite places to hang till closing, playing pool, drinking Guiness Stout, beautiful women to meet, & live music. I had a lot of friends in local bands that played around the blossoming Downtown Pasadena that was nothing but closed retail stores at night with bums & prostitutes wandering around. The Loch Ness started a revitalization that brought 5 star dining, live music in every other place. Anyway I & others would slip out the patio door to the alley to compare & share some of the various things besides cigarettes that people were smoking those days to relieve stress. The Average White band started playing there because they came over from Scotland to sing their Scottish Soul music that was "too Funky"for the Average white guy (a joke). So after hearing them for the first time in that intimate setting ( me & a dozen people) they called "Break"so I introduced myself outside in the patio where a few of them were smoking cigarettes, "come out to the alley & see what my friend & I are smoking-if you like". So the lead singer & 2 or3 others came out & we did our thing. I remember them thanking us but they said to never let the (either the Bass player or the drummer) smoke it because. they lost their timing then, unlike them, they could hang, in fact they were even more soulful after "BREAK" This went on for a month or two. I guess there was 6 or 7 of them, living in one room, over the bar?, the owner had help other UK bands come over I guess. They said he could not pay much at first, but his wife fed them & they got some cash after shows. Well word spread, & within the 3rd or 4th week there was 50 or so inside dancing, etc & a hundred more lined up in the parking lot hoping someone would leave so they could get in. About the 2nd month, at Break time in the alley, the lead singer/guitarist (I forgot his name) said "Dan, check this out", & he showed me a check for $30,000 or so. He said "Stevie Wonder's People came & saw them & gave them that check as a down-payment on a recording contract" We all celebrated because we knew they were destined to be stars. I got to see them from 3 feet away dancing with the crowd while they rocked the place from their little corner of the dance floor til closing. Never saw them again after that! What a time!
Hi There My MIxxED Reactions Friends, The Average White Band (a.k.a. AWB) is a Soul, Funk and R&B Band out of Scotland who have been doing it since 1972 to this present day in 2023!!! These guys are not pretenders, they are the "REAL-DEAL!!!" And they have a very deep musical catalog to react to with several hits, such as: "Pick Up The Pieces," "Cut The Cake," "School Boy Crush," "Cloudy - Live 6:36," "Work To Do," "Person To Person," "Queen Of My Soul," "If I Ever Lose This Heaven," "Would You Stay?," "Atlantic Avenue," "Soul Searching," "Sunny Days Make Me Think Of You," "You Wanna Belong," etc...This is just a taste, and there's still more of where this came from!!! Their name derived from a joke, as they had a friend who traveled to different parts of the world and upon returning from his travels, he would say things like "that place was either "too cold" or "too hot" for the average white man, and one day he cracked a joke about their music being too funky for the average white man, and a couple of the band members thought "hey let's call ourselves the Average White Band!!!" So they agreed on it, the name stuck and the rest is history!!! It has never & was never meant to have any racial connotations, as a matter of fact without ever seeing them first, most people thought they were actually a Black Band because of their soulful & funky sound. AWB was the 1st white group to ever play "LIVE" on SOUL TRAIN back in the day!!!
These guys was so awesome we changed their name twice THE ABOVE AVERAGE WHITE BAND THEN THE WAY ABOVE AVERAGE WHITE BAND These guys was awesome nothing Average about them
Had no idea AWB sung this song too. Thanks for playing this... this reminds me of and old song... between the sheets... definitely some Isley Brothers influence :).
,chaa chaa we were scrolling we be commenting on this group as a seventies girl this song we bring it back to life pretty sure your parents grooved on it white boys blew it I taught my daughter old school so I'm pretty sure you older than her mom when music was real if you old school or young this was the jam loving your channel we shall push sub button for this
Excuse me ma’am, this is and old school love jam. You was rockin’ from side to side like my mom used to sit in church moving with the Holy Spirit 😂😂😂 ….but I totally get it. I’ve mastered this song vocally and is one of my all-time favorites.
This is a Band from Scottland. Yes, you heard me right. You need to listen to their 2 biggest Funk Hits "Pick up The Pieces" and "Cut the Cake." It will blow your mind.
yess kiddies, THIS was what was in constant rotation on my turntable back in the mid 70's when i was a teen. AWB had a HUGE following all over the world, especially we black younguns of the time. Aren't they phenomenal?! You can see why we old heads of today wonder what happened to great grooves and vocals when we turn on a radio & hear everything BUT great vocals. Have mercy!
Oh...if your channel is still up, Hamish Stuart is almost 75 y/o and you should hear the modern version he does Look up A Love of Your Own "Hamish Stuart"!!!!
I'm partial to the Studio Recording, these live version's of this song are awesome though. Thumbs Up in your reaction. But all version's live or studio are AWB !! That said, all that matters is there one of the best R&B. Soulful Bands of all time, but give a listen to the studio version . Thank You AWB
One of the baddest white bands loved in the black community,sample their catalog and you'll know why they are still loved by us old skool ... Take notes young folks !
Don’t let the name fool you, love this group: if I ever lose this Heaven, pick up the pieces, only a school boy crush, person to person, all songs by AWB
If you like this, then you should definitely listen to their other songs like Person to Person, Schoolboy Crush( very funky), Pick Up the Pieces, and Cut the Cake just to name a few.......
Check out there Person to Person Live album. Their songs Cut the Cake and Cloudy are two fantastic live recordings. They are better than the studio versions. Hamish kills those high notes on Cloudy!
Some of my nieces, nephews, and cousins was conceived on this song.😂😂😂 Had a couple of “Quiet Storm” nights of my own with this song as well. It was my “Go To” when all else failed. 😂😂😂
When I’m in the mood for AWB, I usually go for Soul Searching (the album), as the song Soul Searching is only one of the great tracks on this album. The album starts with an Overture to let the listener know AWB means business.
Hold up he said groovy pretty much as being black pretty much we didn't say groovy that's something pretty much was a white ter term the words were right on for the black folks lawd loving y'all but did your parents ever school y'all that's like half the music today it goes back to that generation do you see the rappers today sampling all up in in old school white boys blew just like the Isley brothers loving the new generation we gonna keep your channel rolling
Great reaction! I knew you'd love this one! I have another one you should do - In Your Eyes by the Canadian group BADBADNOTGOOD (Feat. Charlotte Day Wilson). Smooooth Jazzy Soul!
Listen to these next: Cut the Cake and Cloudy from their Person to Person live album. These are so different and much better than their studio versions. Studio versions of these: School Boy Crush has such a fat bass you will gain 10 pounds! Let’s Go ‘Round Again Work to Do, a great Isley Brother’s song. The Jugglers, it is so funky!
They had some great collaborations with Ben E. King. 2 songs of theirs that you should definitely check out are 'Star in the Ghetto' and 'Give It Up For Love'.
Listen to the AWB live album called Person to Person. “If I Ever Loose This Heaven” & “Cloudy” will blow you away. Saw them live in Cleveland, Ohio at the Coliseum (now gone) where those two songs were recorded live circa 1976.
I first heard them when i was in High school in 1975 we only had radio and Soul Train, Midnight Special and thats it i heard them on the radio and thought "Awe man thats cold blooded why would they do that?' never thinking that they could actually be a white band with that sound so many great bands in the 70's
PLEASE listen to the studio version of this song. There's more. Also, "Person To Person", "Queen of My Soul", " Pick Up the Pieces" & "Cut the Cake" to name a few by AWB. DEFINITELY not average. 💛
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Some funky white boys. Yeah. Peace
Pretty good for a bunch of white guys from Scotland!!
(I know the drummer's a black guy, but he was a later, & very welcome, addition to the band!)
AWB was a great favourite on Soul Train, in the early 70's, & unlike some bands, they ALWAYS performed live!!
What can I say? If you got it, you GOT it!! 😍
My AWB suggestions
School Boy Crush
If I Ever Lose This Heaven
Cut The Cake
Pick Up The Pieces
Person to Person
These guys from Scotland are funky
Enjoy
The Average White Band was very popular in the black community back in the day.
All day long we swear that we're black so thank you awb so unsung and yet you still have a a place in music history wow
Oh heck yeah....they were amazing
In all communities ! Not just black ! Lol !
@fernando5648 it appears you are taking my comments personally. What does that have to do that this band was popular in the black community? I didn't say just the black community.
Exactly
There straight out of Scotland
52 years later, I'm STILL LISTENING to this fabulous band!!!!!
Them was the boys
Amazing Scottish band
Best reaction of this song on youtube because you both don't pause it to interject comments and lose the nice grooving vibe.
♥️
Wow I wondered why my big brother had that album. Didn't know they sung that
The AWB were far from average back in the day. One of the funkiest bands anywhere. Their first four albums were/are national treasures here in the UK and they have a mix of love ballads, hard funk and everything in between (with funk).
Most people only know their chart hit singles 'Pick Up The Pieces' and 'Cut The Cake' but they are only the tip of the iceberg of gems. Do yourselves a favour guys, buy their albums, 'Show Your Hand 1st album', 'AWB', 'Cut The Cake' and 'Soul Searching'. You will be amazed.
YES! Soul Searching! I forgot about that. Thank you 😊 💛
Yep let's teach the new generation what the music was in them days we loving this channel
AWB was awesome. I was a teenager and we went wild for their music in the 70’s
I had all the cuts back in the seventies I remember cut the cake lol been loving that group forever Waldorf you know what's up I salute your taste when music was real and you know your classics don't get me wrong I like how music just changes today music I'm still jamming ppl ten to forget this new generation lol dam I'm sounding like my parents back in the day aww hell lol
@@patriciarouse2456 yep girl you had you some soul in them days we gonna call you the girl that knew what the real deal was
The band's were out in the 70's. This is what you call "Blue Eyes Soul". Love it. Check out Hall and Oates "Sarah Smile"
Oh, Sara Smile, yes, yes, yes!!!
@@monicaross141 yep Sara smile girl we see as looking at the comments we see y'all know what time it was back in the days now we know you real you done said that song which we thought no body remember ooo chaa
AWB, y'all should listen to Cut the Cake and School Boy Crush 🔥👍😁✌️
I Can Play This Song Over & Over That's How Much I Love This Great Classic Song 👍
Blue eyed soul 🙌🏻❤️
This is your Parents music. I'm 62 and was in High School when this came out. That was my time. AWB, Con Funk Shun, Bar kays, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, just to name a few. Peace from the SF Bay Area Cali.
Wow, ALL the baddies!
This whole album was house party music in 1976 when I was in Jr.High.
YES!!! A quick thumbs-up to this one. You guys just pulled up on a SWEET TREASURE!!! Please don't forget their live hit Cloudy.
Yes!!! These Guys Are Badddddd!!! (In A Good Way)😅
I was lucky enough that one of my regular bars in Downtown Pasadena, early 70's, the Loch Ness Monster also had live music almost every might of the week, a pool table, & Guiness Beer on tap because the owner was Scottish, & even then I avoided Butt-Wiper beer & this is where I discovered European Beers & by chance come to briefly hang with the Average White Band before & when their fame started. There was a back patio with a door to the alley among the empty Industrial buildings around the bar which is why Pasadena let the bar get loud. One of my favorite places to hang till closing, playing pool, drinking Guiness Stout, beautiful women to meet, & live music. I had a lot of friends in local bands that played around the blossoming Downtown Pasadena that was nothing but closed retail stores at night with bums & prostitutes wandering around. The Loch Ness started a revitalization that brought 5 star dining, live music in every other place. Anyway I & others would slip out the patio door to the alley to compare & share some of the various things besides cigarettes that people were smoking those days to relieve stress. The Average White band started playing there because they came over from Scotland to sing their Scottish Soul music that was "too Funky"for the Average white guy (a joke). So after hearing them for the first time in that intimate setting ( me & a dozen people) they called "Break"so I introduced myself outside in the patio where a few of them were smoking cigarettes, "come out to the alley & see what my friend & I are smoking-if you like". So the lead singer & 2 or3 others came out & we did our thing. I remember them thanking us but they said to never let the (either the Bass player or the drummer) smoke it because. they lost their timing then, unlike them, they could hang, in fact they were even more soulful after "BREAK" This went on for a month or two. I guess there was 6 or 7 of them, living in one room, over the bar?, the owner had help other UK bands come over I guess. They said he could not pay much at first, but his wife fed them & they got some cash after shows. Well word spread, & within the 3rd or 4th week there was 50 or so inside dancing, etc & a hundred more lined up in the parking lot hoping someone would leave so they could get in. About the 2nd month, at Break time in the alley, the lead singer/guitarist (I forgot his name) said "Dan, check this out", & he showed me a check for $30,000 or so. He said "Stevie Wonder's People came & saw them & gave them that check as a down-payment on a recording contract" We all celebrated because we knew they were destined to be stars. I got to see them from 3 feet away dancing with the crowd while they rocked the place from their little corner of the dance floor til closing. Never saw them again after that! What a time!
THE Ultimate "top down on a road trip" music is AWBs song Pick Up The Pieces. Check it out. Bur all the AWB tunes are epic.
They’re from Scotland!
MUSIC BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER ESPECIALLY THIS TYPE OF SOUNDS
amazing love ballad..THEY DID THAT ISH
Hi There My MIxxED Reactions Friends, The Average White Band (a.k.a. AWB) is a Soul, Funk and R&B Band out of Scotland who have been doing it since 1972 to this present day in 2023!!! These guys are not pretenders, they are the "REAL-DEAL!!!" And they have a very deep musical catalog to react to with several hits, such as: "Pick Up The Pieces," "Cut The Cake," "School Boy Crush," "Cloudy - Live 6:36," "Work To Do," "Person To Person," "Queen Of My Soul," "If I Ever Lose This Heaven," "Would You Stay?," "Atlantic Avenue," "Soul Searching," "Sunny Days Make Me Think Of You," "You Wanna Belong," etc...This is just a taste, and there's still more of where this came from!!! Their name derived from a joke, as they had a friend who traveled to different parts of the world and upon returning from his travels, he would say things like "that place was either "too cold" or "too hot" for the average white man, and one day he cracked a joke about their music being too funky for the average white man, and a couple of the band members thought "hey let's call ourselves the Average White Band!!!" So they agreed on it, the name stuck and the rest is history!!! It has never & was never meant to have any racial connotations, as a matter of fact without ever seeing them first, most people thought they were actually a Black Band because of their soulful & funky sound. AWB was the 1st white group to ever play "LIVE" on SOUL TRAIN back in the day!!!
I forgot that they had all these hit
Check out the live version of their other ballard called Cloudy.
These guys was so awesome we changed their name twice
THE ABOVE AVERAGE WHITE BAND
THEN THE WAY ABOVE AVERAGE WHITE BAND These guys was awesome nothing Average about them
Cloudy by them, and Work to do, also good
Had no idea AWB sung this song too. Thanks for playing this... this reminds me of and old song... between the sheets... definitely some Isley Brothers influence :).
They don't make music like this anymore....Im an ol head..lol....Their name is LEGENDARY!! Their music...TIMELESS!!!
Bunch of Scottish guys puttin' out some soul - :-)
one of the baddest live band ever.....NO AUTO TUNES!! Classic voices
,chaa chaa we were scrolling we be commenting on this group as a seventies girl this song we bring it back to life pretty sure your parents grooved on it white boys blew it I taught my daughter old school so I'm pretty sure you older than her mom when music was real if you old school or young this was the jam loving your channel we shall push sub button for this
Let me go pull out this album from my collection. Love them.
The days of the grind!!
And the Bump!
You know this band is from Scotland. Right! Beautiful Soul all around the World.
A great soul funk band from the 70's.I saw them on Soul Train a couple of times.
Average white band and black people lived them. Very popular in my day. I loved them.
Loved your reaction. Now drop some funk with Schoolboy Crush. Make sure it is the studio version for full effect. You'll love it!!!
The studio version is awesome, there is a live version on Soul Train, that's awesome too.
❤ *THE MOMENTS- LOVE ON A TWO WAY STREET ❤
Y'all young lol but you learning lol keep digging thumbs up
Clearly not an average white band. , Great memories 💕
Funny AWB was back in the day ok! youngbloods!
Blue Eyed Soul! The Average White Band! Great reaction! 😎❤️
You got to listen to Work To Do. They are amazing band seen them many times and TOP, they are true funk
Excuse me ma’am, this is and old school love jam. You was rockin’ from side to side like my mom used to sit in church moving with the Holy Spirit 😂😂😂
….but I totally get it. I’ve mastered this song vocally and is one of my all-time favorites.
That’s some of that brownchickenbrowncow music right there mm hm 😄
Is that the great Steve Ferrone on drums
Yes
"School Boy Crush" is a must!!
I have enjoyed your reviews. Here's one you may like by Quincy Jones: The Secret Garden. Looking forward to your review!
You have to check out pick up the pieces a Schoolboy Crush in the 70s AWB was really really the thing
Panty dropper playlist for sure!
This is a Band from Scottland. Yes, you heard me right. You need to listen to their 2 biggest Funk Hits "Pick up The Pieces" and "Cut the Cake." It will blow your mind.
As Always Love Seeing Your Reactions To All These Great Song's Guy's
You should really do their "pick up the pieces". Great song
Beautiful music comes from within, regardless of outside, external features.
AWB album was THE party album back in the day. So many great tracks but this for sure is my favorite.
yess kiddies, THIS was what was in constant rotation on my turntable back in the mid 70's when i was a teen. AWB had a HUGE following all over the world, especially we black younguns of the time. Aren't they phenomenal?! You can see why we old heads of today wonder what happened to great grooves and vocals when we turn on a radio & hear everything BUT great vocals. Have mercy!
Oh...if your channel is still up, Hamish Stuart is almost 75 y/o and you should hear the modern version he does Look up A Love of Your Own "Hamish Stuart"!!!!
AWB is from Scotland, they are amazing even today. You should check out their album Soul to Soul and the song Back to Basics.
This reminds me of when my aunt& uncles use to play dominoes in the basement when I was a lil kid.. I loved those days🙏🏽🥺✌🏽🫶🏽
There's nothing like a 70s Band
Classical Gas has got to be there most popular song. But these other songs are hidden gems nowadays. You just don't hear them enough.
Scotland!!! The land of soul and heart!
"Let's go round again"is another great song you should listen to.
Their last hit, but it wasn't until later in time.
I'm partial to the Studio Recording, these live version's of this song are awesome though. Thumbs Up in your reaction. But all version's live or studio are AWB !! That said, all that matters is there one of the best R&B. Soulful Bands of all time, but give a listen to the studio version . Thank You AWB
Another great Scottish band
just wait til you hear the rest!
I still listen to the White album, almost 50 years later.
Look. I'm 60 and white. Seriously, the blackest white band there ever was.
Cloudy, work to do, check those out by AWB
Love me some Average White Band!!!!
One of the baddest white bands loved in the black community,sample their catalog and you'll know why they are still loved by us old skool ... Take notes young folks !
Don’t let the name fool you, love this group: if I ever lose this Heaven, pick up the pieces, only a school boy crush, person to person, all songs by AWB
This reminded me of all kinds of things from the 70's and still was very fine in its own skin
If you like this, then you should definitely listen to their other songs like Person to Person, Schoolboy Crush( very funky), Pick Up the Pieces, and Cut the Cake just to name a few.......
Yeah baby
Check out there Person to Person Live album. Their songs Cut the Cake and Cloudy are two fantastic live recordings. They are better than the studio versions. Hamish kills those high notes on Cloudy!
Aww the next generation mmm
Some of my nieces, nephews, and cousins was conceived on this song.😂😂😂
Had a couple of “Quiet Storm” nights of my own with this song as well. It was my “Go To” when all else failed. 😂😂😂
They was prankin all y'all who thought White Folk dont get down wit tha Funk LOL
I'm having this song in rotation at my wedding reception if I ever get married again. "A love of my own...to shelter me from the cold." That hit me.
When I’m in the mood for AWB, I usually go for Soul Searching (the album), as the song Soul Searching is only one of the great tracks on this album. The album starts with an Overture to let the listener know AWB means business.
"Pick up the pieces" & "Cut the cake" are the two from them I know. This was a new one for me. I enjoyed it!
You've heard their instrumental "Pick up the Pieces".....in lots of films
Hold up he said groovy pretty much as being black pretty much we didn't say groovy that's something pretty much was a white ter term the words were right on for the black folks lawd loving y'all but did your parents ever school y'all that's like half the music today it goes back to that generation do you see the rappers today sampling all up in in old school white boys blew just like the Isley brothers loving the new generation we gonna keep your channel rolling
👏👏👏👏check out "Queen of my Soul" and "Atlantic Avenue " pure blue-eyed soul brilliant mucians 👍💐
School Boy Crush is my all time favorite Average White Band song 🎵
Great reaction! I knew you'd love this one! I have another one you should do - In Your Eyes by the Canadian group BADBADNOTGOOD (Feat. Charlotte Day Wilson). Smooooth Jazzy Soul!
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Listen to these next:
Cut the Cake and Cloudy from their Person to Person live album. These are so different and much better than their studio versions.
Studio versions of these:
School Boy Crush has such a fat bass you will gain 10 pounds!
Let’s Go ‘Round Again
Work to Do, a great Isley Brother’s song.
The Jugglers, it is so funky!
They had some great collaborations with Ben E. King. 2 songs of theirs that you should definitely check out are 'Star in the Ghetto' and 'Give It Up For Love'.
White Bread from Scotland ha ha.
please react to Cut the Cake from this concert.....
Still love this song!!
One of the best bands too come out of the UK including Loose Ends😊
70s and the 80s, great music
Listen to the AWB live album called Person to Person. “If I Ever Loose This Heaven” & “Cloudy” will blow you away. Saw them live in Cleveland, Ohio at the Coliseum (now gone) where those two songs were recorded live circa 1976.
big surprise they have a few more that out there to react to
I first heard them when i was in High school in 1975 we only had radio and Soul Train, Midnight Special and thats it i heard them on the radio and thought "Awe man thats cold blooded why would they do that?' never thinking that they could actually be a white band with that sound so many great bands in the 70's
AWB was one of the coldest bands to ever do it! Straight Out Of Glasgow Scotland! 👊🏽
What YR you heard this song
PLEASE listen to the studio version of this song. There's more. Also, "Person To Person", "Queen of My Soul", " Pick Up the Pieces" & "Cut the Cake" to name a few by AWB. DEFINITELY not average. 💛