Cut the Cake (album)

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Released June 1975 Length 42:02 Artist Average White Band Producer Arif Mardin Genres Funk, Soul music		Recorded 1975 Cut the Cake(1975) Soul Searching(1976) Release date June 1975 Label Atlantic Records

Similar Soul Searching, Show Your Hand, Feel No Fret, Cupid's in Fashion, Benny & Us

Cut the Cake is the third album released by Average White Band, released in 1975. This album included the hit single "Cut the Cake", the title track, which reached #10 on the Billboard pop singles chart.

Average white band cut the cake

Track listing

Side A

"Cut the Cake" (Average White Band, Gorrie, McIntosh) – 4:07
"School Boy Crush" (Average White Band, Stuart, Ferrone, Gorrie) – 4:58
"It's A Mystery" (Stuart, Average White Band, McIntosh) – 3:34
"Groovin' the Night Away" (Average White Band, Stuart) – 3:42
"If I Ever Lose This Heaven" (Leon Ware, Pam Sawyer) – 5:00

Side B

"Why" (Ball, Stuart, Gorrie) – 3:57
"High Flyin' Woman" (Average White Band, McIntyre, Gorrie) – 3:47
"Cloudy" (Stuart, Gorrie) – 4:18
"How Sweet Can You Get" (Ball, Stuart, Gorrie) – 3:57
"When They Bring Down the Curtain" (Gorrie, Ball) – 4:42

Personnel

Alan Gorrie – vocals, bass, guitar (on "Cut the Cake" and "School Boy Crush")

Hamish Stuart – vocals, guitar, bass (on "Cut the Cake" and "School Boy Crush")

Roger Ball – keyboards, synthesizer, alto & baritone saxophones, arranger (Dundee horns)

Malcolm Duncan – tenor saxophone

Onnie McIntyre – guitar

Steve Ferrone – drums, percussion

Additional

Ray Barretto – congas (on "It's a Mystery" and "When They Bring Down the Curtain")

Songs

1Cut The Cake4:06
2School Boy Crush4:59
3It's a Mystery3:56

References

Cut the Cake (album) Wikipedia

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