Pick Up the Pieces

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"Pick Up The Pieces" is a 1974 song by the Average White Band from their eponymous album, AWB. It was the group's most successful song, and features one of the most recognizable grooves in funk music. It is essentially an instrumental, apart from the song's title being shouted at several points in the song.sample 

"Pick Up the Pieces" was released in Great Britain on July 1974 but failed to make an impression. When the album was released in America in October 1974, radio stations started to pick up on the song and, on 22 February 1975, it went to the top of the US singles chart. It then charted in the UK and climbed to number six.

In 1993, it was covered by Candy Dulfer.

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Preceded by
"You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt
Billboard Hot 100 number one single
March 1, 1975
Succeeded by
"Best of My Love" by Eagles