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[@metalmark1214]

The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger wrote the lyrics to this song, which is about a girl he fancied. Doug was in a long-term relationship when he walked into the clothing store where a high school student named Sharona Alperin (who had a boyfriend), was working. The age difference (he was about eight years older) and relationship status didn't deter Fieger, who was immediately lovestruck. With his girlfriend looking on, he invited Sharona to a show. Not long after, he broke up with the girlfriend and professed his love for Sharona, creating a weird dynamic where he would come on to her even though she had a boyfriend who often attended Knack concerts with her. It got pretty heavy when Fieger started writing songs about her - they weren't together when he composed"My Sharona." About a year after they first met, Sharona gave in and they started dating. She joined the band on tour and watched as the song Fieger wrote about her elevated them to stardom. The couple were together for about four years (and engaged at one point) before the rock and roll lifestyle and Fieger's alcoholism became too much for Sharona, and they called it off. In the aftermath, Sharona answered questions about the breakup by saying that she needed to become her own Sharona, not someone else's. After a cooling off period, Alperin and Fieger became friends. Alperin was with Fieger the last week of his life; he died of cancer on February14, 2010. Source - Songfacts

[@lamusiclover2264]

And Sharona Alperin has been a successful real estate agent in the San Fernando Valley for many years now.

[@metalmark1214]

@@lamusiclover2264 I read that too, just didn't include, thanks.

[@bartstarr100]

@@lamusiclover2264 Harry Reems, the porn star ended up as a real estate agent also.

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

@@bartstarr100 thats right, I had forgotten about him

[@lamusiclover2264]

@@metalmark1214 I live in the valley and I see her ads all the time

[@richardedenfield5167]

I don't know how to say this so people will listen, but every reactor to this song on KZbin listens to version with solo cut short. The guitar solo in this song is legendary and it is more than three times longer than this version. And when I say legendary, I mean legendary. It is the highlight of the song. Please listen to version that is longer with that solo. Please.

[@richardcranium5048]

True

[@paulie.walnuts2838]

It's one of the best solos I have heard in a song , legendary.

[@joedirt688]

One of the most under-rated guitar solos in music history!

[@dmCurator]

The guitar solo that you didn't get to hear in its entirety is fantastic. It's where the song really begins to take off. 🎸🎸🎸

[@guillermoperis1673]

Noooooo!!! Short version again of one of the hottest guitar solos in Rock 'n Roll history!!!! such a shame. Someone should just retire this halved version out of circulation. Cancel it. Bann it. Ughhh!

[@tp3922]

What everybody overlooks is the fact that this is one take with slight overdubbing recording. The entire album, recording and mixing cost a mere $6,000. They must only spent two or three hours of studio time, max. I brought the single, and years later finally got the album on CD. Rock on.

[@matthawkins8880]

In around 1992 me and my friends drove from OKC to Dallas to see them in a bar. The bar had a capacity of at least 200 people and there were 10. It was kind of sad, but what was cool was that after there set ended at 10, they came out and drank with us. I still have a signed album. BTW, THEY ARE GREAT MUSICIANS. They played an epic version of All Along the Watchtower.

[@brettteeter3461]

You missed it! The best solo in rock history. Be sure to listen to the full version.

[@jesterforhire]

This song was played to death at the roller skating rinks when I was young, and it was AWESOME! It is so edgy. Great roller skating rink song. Thanks for the reaction.

[@daviddow8150]

Hey now. I worked at a rink and it was my album. Lol

[@jesterforhire]

@@daviddow8150 , you live in North Seattle, WA too?! 😍😜😁😂

[@ears4days]

Sharona is/was the singer's girlfriend.

[@sharikraft1706]

Such a kinky little song. This was such a HUGE hit. I loved it, still do

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

I wish it wasn't the shorter version where half of the cool lead guitar solo is cut out. Sometimes it's better to hear the album version than the video.

[@maxbrazil3712]

Roller skating under the glitter ball in 1979, those were the days.....

[@Dave-nd6ys]

Asia you must have been a beautiful baby your gorgeous 🥰

[@GrannyMetalheadTV]

Ok, now that you know the original, you MUST check out Weird Al's "My Bologna". It's wonderful! 🤘Rock On!🤘

[@odinson1962]

this ain't even the original though. It's the lame short cut.

[@marcieharreld286]

This was blasted everywhere when it was released!!! Epic tune!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎼🎵🎸🥁🎧🎹🎤🎙

[@ptofview]

Awww, too bad the epic guitar solo was edited out. You gotta hear it!

[@viacrucis2509]

My senior year in high school! 1979! We jumped to this one. Great and an underrated guitar solo.

[@bostonvair]

Mine too! (1979-80)

[@markweatherford2579]

This song rocked my car stereo as I drove to pickup girlfriends back in the day. Warning! It makes you speed!

[@ole9421]

Kind of a, get-in-the-mood, music, eh? Lol.

[@carollittle1059]

Holy crap! This song was Mega hit. Weird Al did, My Bologna.

[@bar5radass]

Fun Fact: Sharona is now a top real estate agent in Beverly Hills.

[@prodigal71]

I just love this song...it's one of a number of songs I look at differently as an adult with a daughter...but it's too catchy not to love & get into the groove. Oh & I agree with many others in the comments: the solo is a real killer esp in the long version

[@IFY0USEEKAY]

Don't forget "Good Girls Don't" another gem from the Knack!!

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Yesssss🔥

[@metalmark1214]

Thanks Asia and BJ for playing this one. Brings me back in the day. Have this on a 45. Great guitar solo in this song, unfortunately the solo in this version is truncated.

[@Braveheart0484]

45's. I had over 200. All wrecked in a flood. I had to explain what a .45 was to many people. Every time I have to makes me feel old....lol

[@brians2869]

Dope... I love early eighties, post-punk, new wave sht...

[@bobschenkel7921]

Still have the album on vinyl from "back in the day". Mark's girlfriend at the time was a YOUNG lady named Sharona.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Dumb ass, it's Doug..

[@sjd5750]

A long time ago I worked with a guy who replaced the words with, "Rice-A-Roni."...Made me laugh every time.

[@mm-gz4nb]

That's funny I've never heard that one..

[@lrsrosebud]

Just heard this on the radio this morning! LOL Thankfully they played the longer version. 👍🏻

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

The video version on KZbin is a rip off.

[@theresehill1660]

Doug Fieger, lead singer is from Oak Park Michigan

[@kferro]

This one time at band camp...

[@allensanders5535]

I seen them play in sept.79 at the E club on base at Kaneohe marine corp air station (KMCAS) in hawaii, maybe 100 people there got all the signatures and even got one of the hats with the wings on the side they were awesome.

[@wichitadisciple9874]

I've loved this song since I first heard it when I was a kid. Reality Bites soundtrack!!

[@Braveheart0484]

I'd play this song at weddings...lol.

[@HandleTakenlol]

This came out my senior year in high-school, we were playing it at football games.

[@hectordelacruz5222]

I would dance to in HS in Simi Valley CA when malls were the hang out places

[@mikefixx7177]

Not sure why everyone plays the short version it doesn't do justice for the song, but I still like it

[@ronbusby4596]

You should see sharona today at 63 still a knock out!

[@hebber1961]

Do the less clean version of their "Good Girls Don't".

[@adearmom]

That's 🔥! I loved this reaction 😂 ❤

[@zoegartham312]

I love having fun with this song. My Spumoni... Rice-a-Roni... and there's a hundred other ones that can fit.

[@easyrolling]

Biggest Hit Of The Year!! 1979!! - Do ..Good Girls Don't.. next.. nobody else has.. great song.. Great reaction!!!

[@shawnk7832]

Turn the knob up? Oh it's me... So good!

[@acerimmer3927]

Classic tune. I love how much you guys got into the subject and how it made you two smile. Great to watch. Haha 😂

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

It's like W.C. Fields said, "I'd rather have two girls of 21 than one girl of 42."

[@bakercarl8518]

Excellent request. I know some how tomorrow ill be humming this. Asia y'all band leader had a little freak in them. I went to a high school basketball game and what I saw them cheerleaders do. I felt like I needed to bring a lot of single dollars.

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Hey y’all!If at all possible, please listen to the version with full solo- 💖💙👍✌️

[@dondee5439]

Love songs that start with drums. Sharona is real. She went on to sell real estate in California. Can you imagine meeting the realtor and she says, "Hi my name us Sharona. Yes, I'm THAT Sharona."

[@margaretlarue2785]

They always played this at the roller skating

[@raiderrod3584]

Kurt Cobain loved this song

[@chrisnicol1644]

I have that same Rickenbacker Bass...

[@stevetanner3019]

On the year end countdown for 1979, My Sharona was # 1

[@bonoman1987]

When this first came out wayyyyy back when it was number one forever...but what gets lost is the GUITAR SOLO....its incredible....

[@chriswildhaber35]

It's good but in my opinion my favorite guitarist, Mr Eddy Van Halen, R. I. P. Has the greatest solo of all time, not eruption that's the absolute best, but I'm the one. The 🐐.

[@jzp931]

OmG so many memories lol love this!

[@Jd-im4my]

Use to party to this one alot.

[@sharkmedia5969]

My Sharona not Mysharona lol

[@robertmills8640]

The radio played the hell out of this time back in the day😋

[@redflamered]

The change in key/tempo before the great guitar solo - made it unforgettable.

[@thatmanstumototours2270]

At one point, this was being played every other song on the radio...

[@CuttinEJ]

Bummer! They cut about a minute out of a masterpiece guitar solo! EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!

[@TheMovieManiac99]

The First two KNACK albums are great. Just about every song is fantastic. They go from a memorable beautiful ballad "Can't Put a Price On Love.....to the fast "Oh, Tara".......to the brilliant "(She's So) Selfish.

[@fa2112]

Their third album is great (better than their second)

[@nightsspell368]

~*hahaha...that arm movement and doing that..puffing hahah..funny stuff... GOOD VID.. love u2*~

[@GT-ry1cv]

For me this brought back middle school skating party memories

[@michaelparrison1766]

No, He Hadn't Had It Yet She was A Little Younger Hottie (8) Years Younger Than Himself.......

[@VadersRage]

Heh heh.....you thought THIS one had a bit of a "dirty" vibe to it? Go give a listen to "Good Girls Don't". Make you think VIVIDLY about "This one time....at band camp...."

[@Nugglehed]

Sorry...didn't read everybody's comments, but... Did anybody else notice Asia"s giggle about 2mins. in? She's diggin' the lead singer and the lyrics. BJ didn't notice but she's a bit smitten. Unfortunately, Doug Fieger died at the early age of 57 on Valentine's Day in 2010. Very sad to have dug that up online. Wikipedia can be painful :(

[@sca88]

'White Punks on Dope' by 'The Tubes', 1975.

[@AW-yj6md]

Ohh yong people,..ya'll are cute,..did you say ya'll played this in band, back in school?,..see,..like you said back when your young,..singing along with these songs,..and you got no idea under the sun, that they're singing about sex,..about huh, "touching feeling, squeezing "(you know like that song by Journey 😉),..and your in grade school,..singing that,..lol..Robert Palmer did a song originally done by Cherelle, who did duets with Alexander O'Neal, called "Didn't Mean To Turn You On", on his Riptide album(Addicted to Love, was monster single from album), and when they interviewed him, think on MTV, he said he had heard Cherelle sing it and couldn't believe someone so young, singing such a suggestive,..you know sexy song,..he thought it was a more adult song,..so he put it on his album,..I was in middle school I think when La Grange by ZZ TOP, came out and I'm singing along,..they're talking about, sex ranch,..you just don't realize, when your a kid,..do check out movie Reality Bites,..crazy funny scene in movie, with Winona Ryder, and Jeanne Garofalo, breaking out into dance when Sharona comes on over the store speaker, in the 7 Eleven, they're shopping in,..lol between the funions and doritos,..its halarious,..and also another good one is 8675309- Jenny, by Tommy Tutone,..that was everyone's obsession,..they couldn't play it enough on MTV,..its awesome,..it was a real phone number!,..enjoy, Godspeed, Peace ✌

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

I didn't notice it till recently but this song was actually VERY VERY dirty. Let's just say that "Sharona" is not a person. It's a body part, specifically a male appendage....if you know what I mean.

[@BorealisNights]

Not sure how well this song would do if it came out today... seems most reactors kinda miss that he can always get it up, for the younger touch... he's waiting because, she is most likely underage. As you said, it was the lifestyle for rockers back then, groupies and such.

[@davidlynn3631]

If you can't figure out what he talking about you must have flunked physical ed .lol😅

[@chriscardona6292]

LOL!!!! "How we playing this in marching band???"

[@bobsheppard8773]

Lead singer, the late Doug Feiger is also the brother of Michigan Attorney Geoffrey Feiger who was Jack Kevorkians lead Attorney back in the day. Little nugget of info

[@bartstarr100]

1979. Rock Stars singing about a15 year-old girl. Number one hit. With a bullet. Got so tired of hearing this. The guitar solo saves it, but it's not on this video.

[@paulmcgo1089]

You guys got robbed . You got the short radio play . The guitar 🎸 solo (a much longer version) is in my opinion the top ten ever recorded in music history...the other 9 in that category are as follows...anything by Eddie Van Halen in the first 5 albums of the Diamond Dave Era 😀

[@elakba]

This one became "It's Tricky" by Run DMC ...

[@Declan50]

The beat is heavily influenced by Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up”. With that being said…Brilliant song!

[@jonlenihan4798]

Answering the musical question : Is is possible to play guitar with your dock in your hands?

[@genebarker3624]

They way over played this on the radio when it came out. I was sick of it, but I appreciate it now

[@JVMultiProds]

This song was made more awesome by the fact that Will Ferrell parodied former Attorney General Janet Reno on Saturday Night Live with this as her theme song XD

[@ewrekzz7360]

they got away with very suggestive lyrics...their other big hit "Good Girls Don't"

[@williamjordan5554]

The singer's brother is a famous, high-priced lawyer.

[@dizastro5437]

This tune is so unique. Very catchy and fun. Never heard anything like it. Very fun to tool around a guitar with this one.

[@827dusty]

released way back on June 11th, 1979. A very nasty song.

[@pollynicklas5220]

They also had a couple more minor singles - Frustrated and Good Girls Don't!

[@m.gideonhoyle409]

This song hit when I was a freshman in high school. We hired our Homecoming dance band because they could play it.

[@josemenendez4454]

Got this album when it came out in 1979 this band was already compared to the Beatles . Played it till it would skip

[@timl.1184]

Of course if you like doing weird Al and his parodies you got to check out weird Al's My Bologna

[@RainNBlood]

It has probably already been mentioned in comments, but if not, this song helped to end the Disco dominance on the charts and bring back Rock.

[@Daehawk]

Damn that song has legs. My wife loved it .RIP Doug.

[@psidvicious]

Long version with the extended guitar solo was 10X better.

[@MaRoach7]

I saw this band in 1978 when they opened for Sammy Hagar

[@lulu63]

Music that invented the white people dance that Eddie Murphy exposed to the world.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Runnin down the length of my thigh Sharona. Ooer,sounds rude.

[@jimmyhubbard6681]

Just enjoyed watching your reaction, you lost out on some good guitar, should've done the longer version. Love the channel

[@Tampahop]

Honestly, it was hard to take these guys seriously. They were touted as the "new Beatles" then pretty much disappeared after one album. I guess it was hard to live up to the hype.

[@tommyc6066]

There is a longer version with a different bass player & a longer guitar solo that is pretty good.

[@stephenhuber1219]

The lead singer Doug's brother is the famed attorney Geoffery Fieger

[@edwardpfingston876]

Growing up in the '80s you had to deal with the new wave. They were bars the new wave bars. They were fun though the girls were hot and they were dancing

[@DBAUG]

You took the wrong version! With the short guitar solo! Bummer

[@Ritaholden1]

As a young girl of 12 I used to love this song. Later on I realized how dirty it really was hahaha. Still like the song though 😁

[@davidschecter5247]

The Knack have a ton of great songs besides this landmark piece.