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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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Sat 30 Mar 2024 18:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Dominic Glover, Gary James Crockett, Jason Glover & Jonathan Allen

    The Devils Work

    • UPPM.

  • Desmond Dekker

    You Can Get It If You Really Want

    • Trojan.

  • Prince Fatty & Shniece

    Black Rabbit

    • Lovedub Records.

  • DiCE_NZ

    Feel The Earth

    • Discoholics Anonymous.

  • Susan Cadogan

    Hurts So Good

    • Sanctuary.

  • Smoove

    Scratchin'

    • Stone Diamond Music Corp.

  • Marlena Shaw

    California Soul

    • Cadet.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Didn’t I

    • Brunswick.

  • Stevie Wonder

    As

    • Motown.

  • The Syphons & Darrell Smith

    Moving In On Someone Else's Heart

    • Suit Yourself Music.

  • Tommy Manero

    B-Boy Chunga! (Lego Edit)

    • Legofunk Records.

  • Marlena Shaw

    Liberation Conversation

    • Cadet.

  • The Sweet Vandals

    Too Much

    • Unique.

  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

  • Miss Saana & The Missionaries

    Slowly

    • Jupiter.

  • Acantha Lang

    He Said/She Said (Lack Of Afro Remix)

    • Magnolia Blue Records.

  • Marlena Shaw

    Woman Of The Ghetto

    • Chevis Music.

  • Sugaray Rayford

    Ain't That A Man

    • Forty Below Records.

  • R. Dean Taylor

    There's A Ghost In My House

    • VIP.

  • Rufus Lumley

    I'm Standing

    • Stateside.

  • Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

    You Get Your Kicks

    • Harmless.

  • Junior Dell & The D-Lites

    Twenty Flight Ska

    • Original Gravity.

  • Average White Band

    Work To Do

    • The Hit Label LTD.

  • Average White Band

    Watcha Gonna Do For Me

  • Average White Band

    You Got It

    • Pick Up the Pieces: The Ultimate Collection.
    • The Hit Record Co. Ltd.
    • 009.

  • Average White Band

    Sweet and Sour

    • The Collection, Volume 3: Person to Person / Warmer Communications.
    • Edsel Records.
    • 213.

  • Average White Band

    When Will You Be Mine

    • Sony-BMG.

  • Average White Band

    Pick Up the Pieces

    • Pickin' Up The Piece.
    • Rhino Records / Atlantic.

  • Average White Band

    Walk on By

    • Above Average.
    • Castle Communications.
    • 007.

  • Rory Hoy & Ashley Slater

    Hey Everybody

  • Lack of Afro

    On The Road

  • Prince Fatty

    And The Beat Goes On (Dub) (feat. Hollie Cook)

    • And The Beat Goes On.
    • Mr Bongo Worldwide.
    • 003.

  • Skeewiff

    Coming Home Baby

    • Late Night Sessions: Autumn Collection.
    • Ministry of Sound.
    • 219.

  • Quantic, Alice Russell & Combo Bárbaro

    Boogaloo In 33

  • Joseph Malik

    I Quit My Nine To Five (North Street West Vocal) (feat. Niki King)

    • Ramrock Red Records.

  • Big Boss Man

    Aardvark

    • Blow Up Records.

  • Average White Band

    Cut The Cake

    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Average White Band

    School Boy Crush

  • Average White Band

    I heard It Through The Grapevine

  • Average White Band

    Got The Love

  • The Jazz Defenders

    Snakebite Playfight

    • Haggis Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Mar 2024 18:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music