“How Do You Do” by Mouth & MacNeal

"How Do You Do" was the 1971 single that carried Dutch duo Mouth & MacNeal far past their own borders, and it sits on their self-titled album from that year. Hans van Hemert and Harry van Hoof wrote this sunny slab of pop rock, and Europe couldn't get enough of it: number one in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland, and in New Zealand too.

America caught on a year later, keeping it on the Billboard Hot 100 for 19 weeks and pushing it as high as number 8. All that foreign business won the duo and both writers the 1972 Buma Export Award, the prize for the Dutch act that sold the most records abroad that year.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.