“Howzat” by Sherbet

"Howzat" came out in May 1976 as the title song of Sherbet's album that year, and it became the Australian band's calling card, written from inside the group by Garth Porter and Tony Mitchell. At home it went all the way to number one on the Kent Music Report, it did the same in New Zealand, and at the 1976 King of Pop Awards it won Most Popular Australian Single.

It also carried Sherbet further abroad than anything else they cut, into the UK top five and onto the bottom rungs of the Billboard Hot 100 in America, and it still stands as their biggest hit. Triple M later placed it in its Ozzest 100, a rundown of the most Australian songs of all time.

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