One of the few white groups to cross the color line and achieve success and credibility playing funk, with their tight, fiery sound also belying their Scottish heritage, evoking American R&B hotbeds like Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia instead. In 1974 The Average White Band topped the American pop charts with the Arif Mardin-produced instrumental “Pick Up the Pieces.”
- “Pick Up The Pieces“
- Public Enemy: Night of the Living Baseheads
- Chris Rock ft ODB: Me & ODB
- Real Roxanne: Her Bad Self
- Stezo: Talking Sense and Jimmy’s Gettin’ Funky
- “Stop The Rain”
- Leena Conquest: Boundaries
- Gangstarr: Gotta Get Over
- Detroits Most Wanted: Backstabber
- Gangstarr: Gotta Get Over
- “When Will You Be Mine”
- Mark Ronson: She’s Got Me
- “Cut The Cake”
- Beastie Boys: Dis Yourself in ‘89 (Just Do It)
- “Person To Person”
- P. Daddy: Friend
- Public Enemy: Air Hoodlum
- “Schoolboy Crush”
- Janet Jackson: The New Agenda
- De la Soul: Do as De La Does and Strictly Dan Stuckie
- Diana King: Shy Guy
- TLC: Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
- De la Soul: Do as De La Does and Strictly Dan Stuckie
- “Love Your Life”
- A Tribe Called Quest: Check The Rhyme
- Fatboy Slim: Love Life
- Stereo MCs: Use It
- Fatboy Slim: Love Life
Aztechnician - “Forever Clouded”. Sampled Average White Band - “Cloudy”.