27/01/2024

Average White Band "The Collection - Volume One" (2009) -Smooth Soul / Blue-Eyed Soul-



Label : Demon Music Group Ltd / Edsel Records (EDSD 2020)


Royaume-Uni Disc 1 - 'Show Your Hand'

01 - The Jugglers (AWB & Alan Gorrie)
02 - This World Has Music (Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Ware & Alan Gorrie)
03 - Twilight Zone (Roger Ball & Alan Gorrie)
04 - Put It Where You Want It (Joe Sample & Alan Gorrie)
05 - Show Your Hand (Alan Gorrie)
06 - Back In '67 (Robbie McIntosh, Roger Ball & Alan Gorrie)
07 - Reach Out (AWB & Roger Ball)
08 - T.L.C. (AWB & Alan Gorrie)

Bonus Tracks

09 - Reach Out (First Version) (Alan Gorrie & Roger Ball)
10 - The Jugglers (First Version) (Alan Gorrie)
11 - It Didn't Take Me A Minute (Alan Gorrie)
12 - In The Beginning (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie & Robbie McIntosh)
13 - Look Out Now (Alan Gorrie & Roger Ball)
14 - Back In '67 (First Version) (Robbie McIntosh, Roger Ball & Alan Gorrie)
15 - White Water Dreams (Alan Gorrie)
16 - How Can You Go Home? (Alan Gorrie)

Disc 2 - 'How Sweet Can You Get?

01 - Person To Person (Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Robbie McIntosh & Onnie McIntyre)
02 - Keepin' It To Myself (Alan Gorrie)
03 - There's Always Someone Waiting (Alan Gorrie)
04 - McEwan's Export (Alan Gorrie)
05 - Got The Love (Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh & Hamish Stuart)
06 - Work To Do (Isley, Isley & Isley)
07 - Just Want To Love You Tonight (Roger Ball & Alan Gorrie)
08 - Pick Up The Pieces (Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, Robbie McIntosh, Malcolm Duncan & Onnie McIntyre)
09 - I Just Can't Give You Up (Hamish Stuart)
10 - How Sweet Can You Get? (First Version) (Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart & Roger Ball)

'Average White Band'

11 - You Got It (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie & Hamish Stuart)
12 - Got The Love (Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh & Hamish Stuart)
13 - Pick Up The Pieces (Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, Robbie McIntosh, Malcolm Duncan & Onnie McIntyre)
14 - Person To Person (Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, Robbie McIntosh, Malcolm Duncan & Onnie McIntyre)
15 - Work To Do (O' Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley & Rudolph Isley)
16 - Nothing You Can Do (Alan Gorrie, Roger Ball & Hamish Stuart)
17 - Just Want To Love You Tonight (Roger Ball & Alan Gorrie)
18 - Keepin' It To Myself (Alan Gorrie)
19 - I Just Can't Give You Up (Hamish Stuart)
20 - There's Always Someone Waiting (Alan Gorrie)


Project Co-ordination : Val Jennings
CD Package : Tony Hodsoll at Wildlife
CD Mastering : Alchemy


Disc 1 - 'Show Your Hand'
MCA MUPS 486, 1973

Produced by Average White Band & Robin Turner
Engineer : Nick Sykes
Album Recorded at R.G. Jones Studio, Wimbledon, London

Roger Ball : Alto Sax, Piano, Clavinet
Malcolm Duncan : Tenor Sax
Alan Gorrie : Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Robbie McIntosh : Drums
Onnie McIntyre : Guitar, Vocals
Hamish Stuart (Tracks 01 - 08, 16) : Vocals, Guitar, Bass
With Mike Rosen (Tracks 09 - 15) : Trumpet

Bonus Tracks :
Tracks 09 11 were recorded at The Band's first session together, in Denmark Street in 1971
Tracks in 1971/72. All the tracks were recorded with Mike Rosen on Trumpet as part of the horn section, and before Hamish Stuart joined (although he appears as a guest vocalist on "Look Out Now". "How Can You Go Home?" was recorded at R.G. Jones Studio after Hamish joined. Originally released as a single (MCA 102 with "Twilight Zone" on the b-side), this track replaced "The Jugglers" when MCA re-issued "Show Your Hand" as "Put It Where You Want It" in 1974 in the wake of the success of the "White Album"


Disc 2 - 'How Sweet Can You Get?
First Release as 'The Clover Sessions' in 2003

Produced by Average White Band
Engineer : Robert Appere
Recorded in 1973 at Clover Studio, Los Angeles

Average White Band :
Roger Ball : Alto Sax, Piano, Clavinet
Malcolm Duncan : Tenor Sax
Alan Gorrie : Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Robbie McIntosh : Drums
Onnie McIntyre : Guitar, Vocals
Hamish Stuart : Vocals, Guitar, Bass

'Average White Band'
Atlantic K 50058, August 1974

Produced by Arif Mardin
Direction : Alan Pariser
Recorded at : 
Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, NY
Engineers : Gene Paul & Lew Hahn 
Criteria Sound Studios, Miami, FL
Engineers : Karl Richardson, Steve Klein, Ron Albert & Howard Albert
Engineers for Additional Recording : Jimmy Douglass & Bobby Warner
Remixed by Gene Paul & Arif Mardin

Alan Gorrie Lead & Background vocals, Bass
Hamish Stuart : Lead & Background vocals, Guitar
Roger Ball : Keyboards, Alto & Baritone Sax
Onnie McIntyre : Background vocals, Guitar
Malcolm Duncan : Tenor Sax
Robbie McIntosh : Drums, Percussion

Additional Musicians :
Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Mel Davis : Trumpets
Glenn Ferris : Trombone
Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax
Ralph MacDonald Congas & Additional Percussion

All Selections Arranged by AW. B Horns
Arranged by Roger Ball

11 - You Got It

Lead vocals : Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart
Guitar : Alan Gorrie
Bass : Hamish Stuart

12 - Got The Love

Lead vocal Hamish Stuart

13 - Pick Up The Pieces

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14 - Person To Person

Lead vocal Hamish Stuart

15 - Work To Do

Lead vocals : Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart
Guitar Solo : Onnie McIntyre

16 - Nothing You Can Do

Lead vocals : Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart
Guitar Solo : Hamish Stuart

17 - Just Want To Love You Tonight

Lead vocals : Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart
Mellotron : Ken Bichel

18 - Keepin' It To Myself

Lead vocal : Alan Gorrie

19 - I Just Can't Give You Up

Lead vocal & Guitar Solo : Hamish Stuart

20 - There's Always Someone Waiting

Lead vocal : Alan Gorrie