Billboard #1 Hits: #355: “Pick Up The Pieces”- Average White Band. February 22, 1975. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: “Pick Up The Pieces”- Average White Band
- Record Company- Atlantic
- Genre: Jazz- Funk
- Written by Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Alan Gorrie, Onnie McIntyre, Hamish Stuart, Robbie McIntosh
- Time: 3:02
- B-side:”Work To Do”
- Album- AWB
- Grade: A
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
“Pick Up The Pieces” is an instrumental- with the shouting out of the songs time here and there throughout the song. Average White Band were a funk-R&B band from Scotland. This was their breakthrough first hit- they would have one more top 10 hit also in 1975 in “Cut The Cake.”
good instrumental and better than the first #1 hit McIntyre and Mcintosh worked on…My dingaling behind Chuck Berry!
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I had no idea that AWB were Scottish. These guys could jam! Love the hits they had on the radio. This was right around the time I started listening to FM radio (even tho AWB weren’t on it.)
Love this song, and bought this 45 single too!
Ive grown to like this over the years.