Average White Band - Farewell Tour
This year, The Average White Band, one of the best soul and funk bands of all-time, hit the road for their farewell tour. Craig’s guest will be founding member Alan Gorrie.
This year, The Average White Band, one of the best soul and funk bands of all-time, hit the road for their farewell tour. Craig’s guest will be founding member Alan Gorrie, who says ‘AWB has been our life for the last 50-plus years and has brought unbelievable highs – and some lows – to us throughout that tumultuous half-century’.
Formed in London in 1972, the six-piece band, somewhat incongruously given their Scottish roots, took the influences of their R&B heroes such as Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Stevie Wonder and developed their own authentic sound which was eagerly adopted by black audiences in the US and elsewhere. The group’s consistently accomplished song-writing helped them to achieve several gold and platinum-selling albums and multiple Grammy nominations.
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Dominic Glover, Gary James Crockett, Jason Glover & Jonathan Allen
The Devils Work
- UPPM.
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Desmond Dekker
You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Trojan.
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Prince Fatty & Shniece
Black Rabbit
- Lovedub Records.
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DiCE_NZ
Feel The Earth
- Discoholics Anonymous.
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Susan Cadogan
Hurts So Good
- Sanctuary.
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Smoove
Scratchin'
- Stone Diamond Music Corp.
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Marlena Shaw
California Soul
- Cadet.
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Jackie Wilson
Didn’t I
- Brunswick.
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Stevie Wonder
As
- Motown.
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The Syphons & Darrell Smith
Moving In On Someone Else's Heart
- Suit Yourself Music.
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Tommy Manero
B-Boy Chunga! (Lego Edit)
- Legofunk Records.
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Marlena Shaw
Liberation Conversation
- Cadet.
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The Sweet Vandals
Too Much
- Unique.
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Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Miss Saana & The Missionaries
Slowly
- Jupiter.
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Acantha Lang
He Said/She Said (Lack Of Afro Remix)
- Magnolia Blue Records.
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Marlena Shaw
Woman Of The Ghetto
- Chevis Music.
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Sugaray Rayford
Ain't That A Man
- Forty Below Records.
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R. Dean Taylor
There's A Ghost In My House
- VIP.
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Rufus Lumley
I'm Standing
- Stateside.
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Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
You Get Your Kicks
- Harmless.
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Junior Dell & The D-Lites
Twenty Flight Ska
- Original Gravity.
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Average White Band
Work To Do
- The Hit Label LTD.
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Average White Band
Watcha Gonna Do For Me
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Average White Band
You Got It
- Pick Up the Pieces: The Ultimate Collection.
- The Hit Record Co. Ltd.
- 009.
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Average White Band
Sweet and Sour
- The Collection, Volume 3: Person to Person / Warmer Communications.
- Edsel Records.
- 213.
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Average White Band
When Will You Be Mine
- Sony-BMG.
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Average White Band
Pick Up the Pieces
- Pickin' Up The Piece.
- Rhino Records / Atlantic.
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Average White Band
Walk on By
- Above Average.
- Castle Communications.
- 007.
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Rory Hoy & Ashley Slater
Hey Everybody
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Lack of Afro
On The Road
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Prince Fatty
And The Beat Goes On (Dub) (feat. Hollie Cook)
- And The Beat Goes On.
- Mr Bongo Worldwide.
- 003.
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Skeewiff
Coming Home Baby
- Late Night Sessions: Autumn Collection.
- Ministry of Sound.
- 219.
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Quantic, Alice Russell & Combo Bárbaro
Boogaloo In 33
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Joseph Malik
I Quit My Nine To Five (North Street West Vocal) (feat. Niki King)
- Ramrock Red Records.
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Big Boss Man
Aardvark
- Blow Up Records.
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Average White Band
Cut The Cake
- The Hit Label Ltd.
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Average White Band
School Boy Crush
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Average White Band
I heard It Through The Grapevine
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Average White Band
Got The Love
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The Jazz Defenders
Snakebite Playfight
- Haggis Records.
Broadcast
- Sat 30 Mar 2024 18:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 6 Music