You've Got the Gun

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"You've Got the Gun"
Single by Sherbet
from the album Time Change... A Natural Progression
B-side "Do It"
Released 1972
Format Vinyl, 7"
Genre Rock
Length3:10 (single edit)
3:56 (1976 version)
5:03 (album version)
Label Infinity Records, Festival Records
Songwriter(s) Garth Porter, Clive Shakespeare, Daryl Braithwaite
Producer(s) Howard Gable
Sherbet singles chronology
"You're All Woman"
(1972)		 "You've Got the Gun"
(1972)		 "Hound Dog"
(1973)

"You're All Woman"
(1972)		 "You've Got the Gun"
(1972)		 "Hound Dog"
(1973)

"You've Got the Gun" is the fifth single by Australian band Sherbet, released in 1972. [1] It was released as the final single from Sherbet's debut studio album Time Change... A Natural Progression. The song was written by Sherbet band members Garth Porter, Clive Shakespeare, Daryl Braithwaite. [2] The song reached at number 29 on Go-Set and number 27 on the Kent Music Report. [3]

Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. The 'classic line-up' of Daryl Braithwaite on vocals, Tony Mitchell on bass guitar, Garth Porter on keyboards, Alan Sandow on drums, and Clive Shakespeare on guitar provided their teen-orientated pop style. In 1976 Shakespeare left and was soon replaced by Harvey James. Sherbet's biggest singles were "Summer Love" (1975) and "Howzat" (1976), both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom. The band was less successful in the United States, where "Howzat" peaked at No. 61. As The Sherbs they also reached No. 61 in 1981 with "I Have the Skill". The group disbanded in 1984. Subsequent re-unions have occurred since 1998.

<i>Time Change... A Natural Progression</i> album by Sherbet

Time Change... A Natural Progression is the debut studio album by Sherbet released in 1972. The album includes the bands hit singles Can You Feel It, Baby?, Free the People, You're All Woman and You've Got the Gun. The album peaked at number 66 on the Kent Music Report.

Garth Ivan Richard Porter is a New Zealand-born Australian multi-instrumental musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member, on keyboards and backing vocals, of the pop group, Sherbet (1970–84), and co-wrote both of their number-one singles, "Summer Love" and "Howzat". Porter is a co-writer and producer for country music singer Lee Kernaghan.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You're Got the Gun" Garth Porter, Clive Shakespeare, Daryl Braithwaite 3:10
2."Do It"Porter, Shakespeare2:14

Charts

Chart (1972)Peak
position
Australia Go-Set Chart [4] 29
Australia Kent Music Report [5] 27

Personnel

Alan Sandow is an Australian drummer and was a member of the rock band Sherbet.

Bongo drum type of drum

Bongos are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes. In Spanish the larger drum is called the hembra (female) and the smaller the macho (male). Together with the conga or tumbadora, and to a lesser extent the batá drum, bongos are the most widespread Cuban hand drums, being commonly played in genres such as son cubano, salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz. A bongo drummer is known as a bongosero.

Daryl Braithwaite Australian singer

Daryl Braithwaite is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984), and returned for various reunions. Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including two number-one hits, "You're My World" and "The Horses". His second studio album, Edge, peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, No. 14 in Norway and No. 24 in Sweden.

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"Cassandra" is the seventh single by Australian band Sherbet, released in 1973. It is the first and final single to be released from Sherbet's second studio album, On with the Show. The song was written by Sherbet members Garth Porter and Clive Shakespeare. Cassandra peaked at number 5 on Go-Set and it also peaked at number 9 on the Kent Music Report.

Slipstream is the ninth single by Australian band Sherbet, released in 1974. It was released as the second single from Sherbet's album Slipstream and it reached number 5 on the Kent Music Report and number 7 on Go-Set. The song was written by Garth Porter and Clive Shakespeare.

References

  1. ↑ Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at Discogs
  2. ↑ Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at 45cat
  3. ↑ Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at Australian Music Database
  4. ↑ Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at Pop Archives
  5. ↑ Kent, David (1972). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 94. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.
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