"School Boy Crush" (Average White Band)

Although "Pick Up the Pieces" is the band's signature song, "School Boy Crush" from the album Cut the Cake (1975) is actually my favorite Average White Band track.  The song's laid back funk, with its big gulps of bass, strategically placed clavinet, bizarre sleigh bell percussion, and strutting jazz guitar riff—provided by founding member Alan Gorrie, is just too sweet and lowdown to deny.
As I've mentioned before, I happened to catch one of AWB's shows while I was in California years ago.  I was at House of Blues with a group of coworkers, including several who shared my love of ol' skool funk.  
When Gorrie launched into the song's signature riff and those sleigh bells jangled through the PA system, I about lost my friggin' mind.  (Spilled my $12 Grey Goose and soda and everything.)
Funny thing was: no one else seemed to know the song!
I thought for sure, for as many times as Gorrie's guitar lick and drummer Steve Ferrone's in-the-pocket groove have been sampled/reinterpreted by the hip-hop/R&B world (see: Nas, Eric B. & Rakim, Too Short, Bobby Brown, TLC), that everyone in that venue would have known the song right away.
But I underestimated just how deep a cut "School Boy Crush" is.
(It's okay, though, because yours truly got everyone in my office dancing and crushing on this groove before it was through.)