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2 unusual facts about Sherbet


Sherbet

Sharbat, a traditional Middle Eastern cold drink prepared with rose hips, cornelian cherries, rose or licorice and a variety of spices

The Stars' Tennis Balls

Next, Maddstone engineers events that lead Rufus Cade - who has by now had several failed marriages and is a regular drugs user - to unwittingly sell sherbet to a group of Turkish dealers expecting a large quantity of cocaine.


Aria di sorbetto

As most of the vendors sold Sorbetto (a Sorbet) and Gelato (an ice cream) and other sweets, such arias came to be known as "sherbet arias" because of what they signified to the audience.

Blackfeather

The LP was co-produced by Robinson and Festival staff producer Richard Batchens (who went on to work with Sherbet and Richard Clapton), and it featured the hit song "Seasons of Change".

Doug Rea

Rea left Sherbet to perform with Maple Lace who covered the UK single "Gimme Dat Ding."

Phoenician Club

The premises were run as a discothèque called Jonathan's Disco in the early 1970s and is notable in the history of the Australian pop band Sherbet, who played a formative eight-month residency there during 1970; it was here that they were first seen by their future manager Roger Davies.

Rainbow sherbet

It is said that sherbet, along with ice cream, was made from chilled wines and other juices in the era of Alexander the Great.

Richard Batchens

His work includes many major releases on Festival's Infinity Records label (not affiliated with the U.S. based MCA Records subsidiary label also called Infinity Records.) He worked on all the early albums and singles for Sherbet, Australia's most successful pop band of the early-mid-1970s, and the first five LPs by renowned singer-songwriter Richard Clapton.

Sinalco

In 1902, German scientist Friedrich Eduard Bilz invented "Bilz Brause", a sherbet powder, and started to sell it in partnership with industrialist Franz Hartmann.


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