These guys were definitely ANYTHING but average! They kicked some serious funk butt back in the day! This reminds me of going to the neighborhood roller skating rink during my pre-teen years.
@josephpowell3949
3 жыл бұрын
Ya! the all-night skate and you know your parents were happy to get rid of you for the night!
@4evalocd660
3 жыл бұрын
Omg dats Rite.....🤎🤎✌🏾✌🏾
@larrywt656
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephpowell3949 More than you could ever know!!
@Braedenfish
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an old black lady and would love to see u hear School Boy Crush by this not so Average White Band! Peace and prayers.
@sandyschroeder1231
3 жыл бұрын
Lol! I'm an old white lady and I love that song!
@antarcticorb9197
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a white guy and I love..love..love that funky song!!!!!!
@deannacrownover3
3 жыл бұрын
"She said waaait a minute..." ( That's my favorite Average White Band song!)
@patrickbuckley344
3 жыл бұрын
Iove the band- I grew up on this band! They are from Scotland☺
@biddylisduff
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the vocals are amazing on "Schoolboy Crush".. Loved this band since 1975! First album I bought - "Cut the Cake".. Still have it - original vinyl.. Same time as listening to Prince Buster, "Al Capone" - can't keep still to either of them, even now.. Great reaction!
@d.sepulveda7669
3 жыл бұрын
This is really an Old School Classic! A total genre buster, it’s still Jams, never gets old! Check out “Cut the “Cake” I remember hearing this for the first time, my older brother played it for me on his 8 track! I remember the “tape case” was pink. I was all but 12! ! 🙀
@ihlee001
3 жыл бұрын
It has been quite a while since I heard about the wonderful 8 track tape~
@erich8265
3 жыл бұрын
This band is funked up! Love it!
@TheDivayenta
3 жыл бұрын
There’s great video of these Scotsmen! One of them wears a kilt.
@greghortonsr.5428
3 жыл бұрын
yup , a red kilt
@ikkenhisatsu7170
3 жыл бұрын
Hysterical to see these young people exposed to great music from the ‘70s. The music then was legendary.
@trishredding8009
3 жыл бұрын
This was my dad's favorite band. He's been gone 10 years, but hearing this song brings a smile to my face.
@FUBAR1986
Жыл бұрын
Sorry for your loss…… that’s still hurts me every day losing my dad
@gsxerwhite
Жыл бұрын
They’re smooth af your Dad had good taste
@manguy2000
3 жыл бұрын
Well there was one black dude lol. Steve Ferrone. I know though...who would have thought some lads from Scotland would have so much funk
@danadnauseam
3 жыл бұрын
Ferrone actually joined the band after the original drummer died of accidental poisoning.
@pjincho
3 жыл бұрын
They were probably constantly asking Steve, “oye, have we got it right?”
@AzulinhoAzulinho
3 жыл бұрын
The drummer on this recording is Robbie McIntosh from Dundee, you guys think Celts can't have funk?
@mogznwaz
3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Steve Ferrone played with Duran Duran for a while too
@clarissagafoor5222
3 жыл бұрын
Even the black guys from Scotland!as far as I know.
@eviekelpie1
3 жыл бұрын
Yes white Scottish guys lol, great groove! Isaac Hayes, Theme from Shaft. Another very groovy one!
@jacquelinejohnson6447
3 жыл бұрын
I haven't listened to this song in a long time. Please react to Chuck Mangione, Feel So Good.
@rebeccalucas6063
3 жыл бұрын
My dad knew nothing about what kids like, so he got me that album when I was 9 years old.😂
@Jillyconjem
3 жыл бұрын
I loved it. I even got “Children of Sanchez” which is incredible. 💜💜💜
@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer
3 жыл бұрын
We used to play his songs in high school jazz band.
@davidduxbury7530
3 жыл бұрын
Superb album!!
@randychampion184
3 жыл бұрын
I second that!! also Gonna Fly Now by Maynard Ferguson
@ratman0073
3 жыл бұрын
Pretty funky huh? 'Cut the Cake' next please.
@sharonpreston4925
3 жыл бұрын
YES Jay... Cut The Cake... please...😉
@loriannrichardson7644
3 жыл бұрын
The Scottish have have soul, blues, and funk. Check out Paolo Nutini, "Last Request" and "Rewind."
@dundeeguy
3 жыл бұрын
Iron sky by paolo as well
@johnavery3918
3 жыл бұрын
I am from Dundee in Scotland and back in the day I always thought this cool music came from America until was put in my place at a niteclub when talking too my slightly older female cousin who informed me it was the cool dudes in the 70's from my hip town that was playing this funky tune.
@msaz2720
3 жыл бұрын
Amen my friend, funk is the universal groove that unites us all!😉🙌🏽🙌🏿🙌🙌🏻🙌🏾🙌🏼💙
@jeffreym68
3 жыл бұрын
And on that note, we need a ton of Parliament and George Clinton!
@_HMCB_
3 жыл бұрын
Truer words have never been spoken 😘
@Ant-bm1qk
3 жыл бұрын
“Guys I’m just going to be reacting to an average white band” Lol
@TheCaveman46
3 жыл бұрын
FYI, this group is Scottish.
@georgehasleftthebuilding6621
3 жыл бұрын
Really? Great fun fact thx 🎵
@mikeguerrero72
3 жыл бұрын
Scottish? Well, I'll keep listening 'till I lay me doon and dee'.
@827dusty
3 жыл бұрын
Swedish
@talltulip
3 жыл бұрын
Whoa! Really? I never knew that!
@richardthomson7976
3 жыл бұрын
@@827dusty What? They're from Scotland, apart from the drummer, Steve Ferrone who's English - he replaced the original, Robbie McIntosh who died in 1974. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_White_Band
@patricebooker1298
3 жыл бұрын
We call it Blue -eyed Soul because of the funky music and the heavy rotation on R&B Stations!
@FFM0594
4 ай бұрын
No, that wasn't/isn't soul, that was funk.
@crsounddoctor4937
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Jayvee, Don't feel bad, a lot of people have reacted to this band's name the same way you have. Please keep in mind that their name was never meant to have any negative racial connotations, they started in the early 70's back in Scotland and their name was birthed from a quirky joke, as they had a friend that traveled a lot to different places, upon his return from his journeys he would make statements like: "the weather there was either too hot or too cold for the "average white man." They heard things like that so many times from this guy, that they thought to themselves, hey let's call ourselves the "Average White Band!!!" I read somewhere in another comment that makes great sense about the marketing of their name: "under-promise" but "over-deliver!!!" And man, do this guys deliver the soul & the funk!!!
@Luxito_DeWarlock
3 жыл бұрын
*THIS MA JAM!!!* Please check out “Got The Love” and “A love Of Your Own” by Average White Band
@ursulabklyn_mia6148
3 жыл бұрын
This song reminds me of riding the subway in NYC.
@lesliesylvan
3 жыл бұрын
Super Cool disco . . . Oh yeah. All the clubs were playin' this song . . .🎷🎷🎧🎻🎸 And plenty of BASS, for Jovaughn . . . Funky-town . . .
@ashleystewart994
3 жыл бұрын
PAAAAAAAARTEE!!!! This was the jam at the clubs in the day.
@yvetteadshead4212
3 жыл бұрын
Let's go round again,, is another great song from them
@guycarter6692
3 жыл бұрын
Truly a GREAT band!!!!... Had the pleasure of seeing them live several times. You have to check out "A Love Of My Own" & " Schoolboy Crush!".... Those are some soulful songs!
@djpoppy1
3 жыл бұрын
Here’s another funk gem for you: Dazz Band - “let it whip”
@Luxito_DeWarlock
3 жыл бұрын
*OH HELL YES!!!*
@moorr4473
3 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!!!
@ericstaton6896
3 жыл бұрын
How about Brick and their funk tune "Dazz"??? 😏
@Lily.Fern.1107
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! Let it Whip and Joystick! 🕹
@pamstuckey8349
3 жыл бұрын
YES
@sharonkeel7963
3 жыл бұрын
That’s an oldie but goody👍❣️
@stephenulmer3781
3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the scene in Superman II where General Zod and the other exiles arrived on earth from the Phantom Zone. This song was playing in the diner as they entered ☺
@darkhaterawe1943
3 жыл бұрын
I could be wrong but I think it was the part where powerless Clark Kent gets beat up by the dude Rocky in the diner!!
@Concreteowl
3 жыл бұрын
Let's just hold hands.
@jonnno243
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! So glad you reacted to this masterpiece. Takes me back. I remember in the 70s buying the vinyl album called AWB with this on it, and Cut The Cake, Person to Person etc. I still have it, still play it.
@ronniesmith8941
Жыл бұрын
I still have Soul Searching and Person To Person live albums
@truthwarrior7934
3 жыл бұрын
They have another great song called , ' cut the cake '. These guys are from Scotland.
@thefairyqueen369
3 жыл бұрын
Im a 56 year old white gal that left school in 1981 and grew up listening to this....lived in London and this style of great music was all over the radio. I'd groove to this as I got ready to go out....thanks to Greg Edward's Saturday night show on Capital Radio.....a lot of my music influence came from his shows including my love for jazz funk in general, Azymuth (fav track Dear Limmertz) Herb Alpert, and one of my all time faves even though more mainstream George Benson! I feel blessed to have grown up in the 70's, 8o's and 90's as went through jazz funk,(remember Southern Freeze?) Punk(went to see the original Ultravox live!), New Romantics or New Wave, Ska, Techno, to name a few... there was just SO MUCH GOOD MUSIC 👍🙂
@Gort-Marvin0Martian
3 жыл бұрын
If you haven't done it, watch a live version sometime. You gotta see these guys! Good reaction. Like always.
@BaronessErsatz
3 жыл бұрын
You should try the music of Herb Alpert.
@mstewart109
3 жыл бұрын
Yes please. Herb Alpert and the Tiajuna Brass. And then Wynton Marsalis
@sandylee6025
3 жыл бұрын
I was raised on Herb Alpert
@BaronessErsatz
3 жыл бұрын
@@sandylee6025, same here!
@Jillyconjem
3 жыл бұрын
My vote goes to “Rise”. I used to love rollerskating to that back when it first came out. 💜
@stephenhanson3647
3 жыл бұрын
Rise
@richardburnett6123
3 жыл бұрын
Average White Band - "Let's go round again" should be your next review, you will not be disappointed.
@RouXRenard
3 жыл бұрын
"LET'S GO 'ROUND AGAIN" - their best and biggest vocal hit. You'll dance your socks off :-D
@georgehasleftthebuilding6621
3 жыл бұрын
Ooohh yeah! I love that big band sound like this, chicago n Sly n family stone. LMAO @ name mix up 😂😂😂
@lesliesylvan
3 жыл бұрын
Sly Stone was GREAT . . . Versatile group
@ragjamrock
3 жыл бұрын
They started as an all white group from Scotland.One band member passed away from an accidental overdose and he was replaced with their first black member Steve Ferrone who later went on to play with Tom Petty.They were the real deal,funky and soulful.
@lena-mariag.louis-charles3579
3 жыл бұрын
A funky Masterpiece that turns 47 this year - truly a TIMELESS CLASSIC!💖💃
@ToniMcGinty
3 жыл бұрын
As a fellow Scot who loves the funk, I am very proud of Average White Band! If you haven´t heard Stand by Sly and the Family Stone, you must. The first white/black/male/female group ever, and my favourite band in the world.
@NoCanDu
3 жыл бұрын
Any track from that album will blow your mind! They were still touring like maniacs until COVID. Excellent live band.
@elleboucher
3 жыл бұрын
They're Scottish, which I love. My mother is from Scotland....wish I could have shared this with her!
@brokervc1
3 жыл бұрын
Every time you play songs from the 60s and 70s you see how great the music was then.
@ricktassone6529
3 жыл бұрын
AWB 🎧🎶 really great music! Hi Jay
@SL-nh6mn
3 жыл бұрын
If you want more funk then look to the gods of funk: Parliament, pretty much anything they released will do but Bring the Funk is a good place to start.
@sharonkeel7963
3 жыл бұрын
“ Cut The Cake”
@patriciadonald570
3 жыл бұрын
Just makes me want to get up and dance ( as long as no one’s watching 😂). Loved it then, love it now. Thanks!
@bobwowk8440
3 жыл бұрын
I saw them in concert 3 times. They get better with age.
@JazzyRiot79
3 жыл бұрын
You've gotta check out "A Love Of Your Own" by Averave White Band, I think the smoothness of it will be a pleasant surprise to you
@robertwright4344
3 жыл бұрын
Jazzy Riot dope ass song💯I’m 46 listening to that most of my life👍👍
@eggy1962
3 жыл бұрын
Had another big hit with Lets go round again, that had a great vocal too
@rzthis1
3 жыл бұрын
Every time this song was played at the roller skating rink, I'd get pulled off the floor and have to sit out for two songs for skating too fast!
@mstewart109
3 жыл бұрын
What a flashbacks song for me...this song played 24/7 on every radio station. Loved this song. The brass was insane. Great group. Funny If you asked most people on who this bands top songs were. This one was it..
@jamespasifull3424
3 жыл бұрын
'Let's go round again', was always one of their biggest floor-fillers!! 😲
@michaelcourtney2754
3 жыл бұрын
You might try Dr John's "Right Place Wrong Time."
@jad4680
3 жыл бұрын
OH MAN! these guys are "JAMMIN" title says it all what a GROOVE cool reaction jayvee ; )
@brettclouse5905
3 жыл бұрын
We see Jayvee had to pick up the pieces after hearing Pick up the pieces. This is a great group with plenty of hits. We use to jam are ass off to this song on roller skates & others songs of Average White Band. I was 1 of those that had a big boom box & pumped this & others of there songs.
@bereal666
3 жыл бұрын
This is so iconic but i never knew the title or the artist untill today 🎸🎶😎🎵🎷. Ps: Do you know "Fatboy Slim"? Maybe youll check out his song "Weapon of Choice", very Funky and a great music video. Stay save 👋🙂
@NoCanDu
3 жыл бұрын
Classic video!
@pagansrule5946
3 жыл бұрын
Hamish Stewart in this band often wears a kilt when playing. I saw Paul McCartney live in Liverpool England early 80's. He was lead singer & guitarist with Paul McCartney absolutely brilliant.
@josephpowell3949
3 жыл бұрын
The 70s Disco was a fun time and just try to sit still and listen to this, You can't!
@Itelkner
3 жыл бұрын
You could call this early disco, but in '74 the line hadn't been firmly drawn between funk and disco. A lot of later disco had a lot of European melodies but this one was firmly R&B rooted. At the time PUTP would have been called funk.The term disco wasn't really a mainstream cultural thing yet and the term wasn't really being used to describe music in '74 - just to describe clubs with dancing.
@josephpowell3949
3 жыл бұрын
@@Itelkner Funkadelic and Johnny Guitar Wattson Days, You're right, but they did play this song a lot at the disco I went too!
@kentinatl
3 жыл бұрын
JAYVEE,I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THIS CAME OUT AND YES IT WAS BOOMBOXED AND ALSO GROOVED TO IN THE CAR AND AT HOME..GREAT REACTION SIR...KENT IN OHIO
@CymInUA
3 жыл бұрын
Saw these guys at Ronnie Scott's in London a few years ago, a real privilege.
@pauldocmusic2411
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! Scottish funk, this song is one of the most sampled in history. Cool reaction
@libbysingscontrezzo8419
3 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Been waiting for this one. I play sax, so it has a special place in my heart. The band members are white, but far from average.
@stevious7278
3 жыл бұрын
You should really check out Candy Dulfer doing a live version of this. She is also a sax player and her version is as good as this...imo. peace
@blackbutterfly243
3 жыл бұрын
Classic group and song...AWB!!!
@charlenewebb5893
3 жыл бұрын
This is what we were grooven to .Party On !
@smedleybutler1969
3 жыл бұрын
Nobody I grew up with gets offended by anything,thats a milennial thing great tune by the way!
@spacegasp
3 жыл бұрын
Our high school basketball team would play this during their pregame warm-ups.
@timetravellingone
3 жыл бұрын
This and Barry White's "Love's Theme" were some of my favorite instrumentals from the 70's
@lynda3860
3 жыл бұрын
the original drummer died young, thats when lineup changed slightly the new drummer took his place in mid seventies one of the singers Hamish wears a kilt when they perform. I played the record when it came out for my dad, he didn't believe me that they were like us Scottish as we still had folks singing old scottish tunes on TV we weren't known for funky music so much in mid seventies lol
@maril1379
Жыл бұрын
Heard this way back in the 70s thumbs up. I knew you would like. The average white band for all races. I wish we could all just leave all the labels behind what a world it could be. Maybe -one day. Too much division I'm white not racist. Tired of people making racially divisive comments Let's all dance together!
@trixier6505
3 жыл бұрын
I love this! Reminds me of guys wearing knit shirts with the longer, pointy collars and flared pants.
@deborahdennehy9937
2 жыл бұрын
FABULOUS BAND!!!! I was in my teens & really adored Average White Band!!!! xx
@TB-mk3fq
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! One of my all-time favorites!
@dundeeguy
3 жыл бұрын
From my home town Dundee , they formed at the same university as.Snow Patrol.
@melp.1942
3 жыл бұрын
This came out in the mid-70s I think but really spanned the rest of the 70s decade and even beyond! You can just imagine them sitting and jamming out to this song. I agree with the comments about it being played in the roller rinks - I very much remember that! The rolling rink down the street from where I live (the one that Pentatonix used in the video for their song "Sing") probably still plays this song when they are open!)
@dpid98
3 жыл бұрын
I'm sitting at my desk doing some serious chair dancing. And this song always reminds me of the diner scene in Superman II. Love this song!!
@sweetcheeks-eo6mu
3 жыл бұрын
can't believe you havn't heard this before AWB are a prolific band, lots of great tunes
@jonnno243
3 жыл бұрын
Since you like this, you may also like Chad Jackson and "Hear the drummer get wicked" from 1990. And for some off- the - wall brass and bass, "papa's got a brand new pigbag". by Pigbag.
@jenniferkasowicz9463
3 жыл бұрын
This song just puts an automatic stank look on my face. Feel the funk.
@sharonkeel7963
3 жыл бұрын
Wow I didn’t know they were Scottish 😱
@maryjokelleher6396
3 жыл бұрын
Amazed to read that they're still together, performing!
@jerryconnors1703
3 жыл бұрын
Saw them a couple of years ago near Philly. Saxophonist Fred Vigdor, around for a long time, was actually pogoing while he was playing.
@rullmourn1142
3 жыл бұрын
PLZ do Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance.
@JackXombi
3 жыл бұрын
We can leave our cares behind.
@rullmourn1142
3 жыл бұрын
The identity of the young blonde woman dancing wildly in the Safety Dance Video remained unknown until 2013, when she was identified as Louise Court, a journalist who was editor-in-chief at U.K. Cosmopolitan, and became a director at Hearst Magazines UK in 2015. As of 2018, she is Consultant Director of Commercial Content for Time, Inc. She kept it a secret all those years because she was embarrassed by it.
@ffjsb
3 жыл бұрын
@@rullmourn1142 Yeah, that would be embarrassing...
@RouXRenard
3 жыл бұрын
Already done MWH
@rullmourn1142
3 жыл бұрын
@@RouXRenard ..Found it ty
@geh3254
Жыл бұрын
There's a alto sax and a tenor sax, the tenor did the solo. The groove and funk to this song makes me pick up my sticks and beat my practice pad, awesome band.
@SG-js2qn
3 жыл бұрын
This song came out about the same time as the Saturday Night Live tv show. The classic SNL theme is very much like this song ... similar influences, I'm sure.
@nylorij-Lori
3 жыл бұрын
I remember when they were on Soul Train. Don Cornelius called them serious blue-eyed soul... TheGuardian.com has a good article on the band, entitled Average White Band: how we made Pick Up the Pieces.
@marshagreen9759
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, they are that good my brother. We had the soul, the funk, and the best of music anyone could have.
@juliettespain7994
3 жыл бұрын
Royce Rolls "Wishing on A STAR", absolutely beautiful
@eixor
3 жыл бұрын
I remember my sister buying that album when it first came out. We used to dance around the living room.
@Cheryl_Haydon
3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, lovin' me some 70s funk on this cold, snowy Monday!! 😀
@mukabout4243
3 жыл бұрын
“Common People” by Pulp
@culture_creature
3 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite instrumentals. My mom used to play this song when I was little.
@alisadetwiler3404
3 жыл бұрын
Funk from the 70s and 80s, pure magic, The Brothers Johnson, the Gap band, KC and the Sunshine Band. I love the Dazz, Dazz Disco Jazz song...
@wildmandon1
3 жыл бұрын
There are duel sax players playing perfectly in time with eachother.
@Sarah-nd2gy
3 жыл бұрын
Love this one. It was one of my go to tracks to listen to just before I walked into the office in order to get me ready for the day
@ArthurRChan
3 жыл бұрын
Please react to Tower of Power: "You're Still a Young Man" and "So Very Hard to Go."
@homebrew2070
3 жыл бұрын
Easy lyrics to remember!! Always played this loud!
@sampuatisamuel9785
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@2715bunky
3 жыл бұрын
Please react to Rose Royce "Carwash" when get a round tooit
@cazgerald9471
3 жыл бұрын
I laughed when you talked about having the boom box on your shoulder - couldn't help but imagine how funny if someone did that for reaction videos :)
@AlternativeHomesteading
3 жыл бұрын
Love these guys. I saw them live in NYC years ago. Thank you for the memories.
@Nonchalant_248
3 жыл бұрын
My childhood, 1975, I was 6 years old.
@kimandterri
2 жыл бұрын
I was a teen in the 70’s. Average White Band is awesome. Since you’re experiencing some funk, check out Mother’s Finest. The album is titled Another Mother Further, Baby Love or any other. They all got the funk.
@honorsilverthorne7227
3 жыл бұрын
I love this song. Was fun to dance & sing to as a kid. 😊💖💜💙💗
@gilberttafoya7804
3 жыл бұрын
These were great. I saw them three times in concert.
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