The Knack - About My Sharona Part 1 of 3

Who and where did My Sharona come from? This three part documentary of My Sharona's derivative and Knack history gives us more than enough insight to digest. Check out the "real" Sharona and where she is today. Legendary rare footage of the late Bruce Gary, Knack's drummer, is a must see! We love you Bruce!!

[@jakemarlow8998]

Bruce Gary was an absolute beast on drums.

[@drumznfishes]

RIP❤🥁

[@vincewylde8523]

@@drumznfishes Came here to say this exact thing!

[@deaterk]

@@vincewylde8523 - Amen brother. His playing and the recorded drum sound on Get the Knack are still incredible.

[@invisibleman1028]

Yes. I saw them in79 and they were energy personified.

[@daitos1955]

I really dig The Knack's drummer, super energetic and in the pocket

[@tommycollins7846]

RIP, Doug Fieger and Bruce Gary!

[@jasona9]

RIP Doug and Bruce. Pat Torpey one of Bruce's replacements on drums is gone too. He was also in the band Mr. Big. RIP Pat Torpey.

[@ETRacing]

These guys were amazing, "Get the Knack" has to be one of the best albums ever. My kids love their music, that says it all!

[@davidsafier6333]

Funny story: In the early-mid 90's, my mom was taking an evening piano class at Santa Monica College. She engaged in conversation with another middle-aged woman and they began talking about their sons. Mt mom said " my son (me) plays drums with his college alumni band." The other woman said, "my son plays guitar for the Knack".

[@ylilycam]

Oh wow I love that!!

[@jasona9]

David Safier, That's a funny story! It must have been Ms. Averre? Berton Averre's mother? Berton and his family grew up in Van Nuys. I met Berton's mother once at one of the Knack's House of Blues Shows, shortly after Capitol Records reissued all their albums on CD. She was a very sweet women. Always at Knack gigs and certainly friendly with their fans.

[@nickphaux]

Working to be that son one day right now 😅.

[@douggrey6253]

Early summer 1979 before my Senior High School year, bunch of us did a Senior Car Wash fund raiser where my friend’s trunk was popped open and the stereo jamming…Heard My Sharona at least 5 times that afternoon and by the time we were done that song was a hit with all of us!!! Get The Knack became our soundtrack for that school year…oh to do it all again!!

[@shethingsd]

I grew up in a very small Midwest town and really had no idea who this band was. There wasn't MTv in my town then. We had a magazine selling scheme for my Catholic primary school. For rewards, I always selected music albums but I never knew anything about the artists. I picked Get the Knack because the album cover reminded me of my mom's Meet the Beatles cover. I also selected the English Beat. To this dsy, some of my favorite songs from those albums.

[@shethingsd]

Good Girls Don't was one of my favorite songs and I absolutly didn't for another 10 years.

[@ponzo1967]

So much attitude and energy in this song and the guitar solo is 🔥

[@stevenally1457]

I was a record buyer for Australian's top record store, Brashes, in Melbourne in 1979. I heard my Sharona on radio on a Sunday night then bought every copy the record company had the next day. The girl at the record company thought I was crazy but I cornered the market, I KNEW it would be number one. I was supposed to do and in-store with the band one morning when they arrived to tour but the crowd was so big outside the store they couldn't get in.

[@konfoooshus6209]

Makes perfect sense. I thought it was brilliant the 1st time I heard it(just after release), & over the years, that 's proven to be a reliable indicator of really big hits. Have been playing it ever since. unfortunately, still haven't found a high quality videoclip.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Bought my first sound system from Brashs paid $100 extra for the ' Petersen ' speakers back in 1980.😅

[@boataxe4605]

This band helped save us from Disco!!

[@bobpierce115]

That's a good point, but by '79 (their big/only year) it was already on it's way out, and New Wave on its way in. My Sharona had some really good guitar work toward the end, but was a very overplayed, annoying song otherwise.

[@bobpierce115]

Wanted to add I was 21/22 then, 59/60 this year. If it comes on the radio today------I switch the station. There are two that ARE worse from '76: 'Blinded by the Light' and 'Fooled Around and Fell in Love'!!

[@boataxe4605]

+Bob Pierce I'm 52 and I hope I'm not as old as you are in seven years! Never stop rock'n!!!🎸🎶

[@bobpierce115]

Your comment has nothing to do with what I said, whereas mine did in regard to yours. I listen to almost nothing but rock, and you, who don't know me at all, are calling me old based on the fact there are some songs here and there I don't care for. That's like saying I don't like food because I don't like cheeseburgers, or I don't like TV because I dislike 'The Bachelor/Bachelorette.' Your comment above all shows your poor reading comprehension. On a more positive note, you could very well be dead well before you're 59 so you won't have to find out! Now you'll just rag on me in a hateful tirade.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

God bless the knack ! Thank you !

[@stevenally1457]

READ BELOW FIRST - I saw them that night in a suburban pub and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I was playing a cover band at the time too, which I called the Katch (get it) and used to do My Sharona twice a night. What a song.

[@len-zeplin480]

Awesome how Proud these guys were about their work.

[@cygnusfloyd]

Well, when all you can muster is one hit you have no choice but to be proud of that one accomplishment.

[@irishmoon1283]

@@cygnusfloyd That wasn't their only hit. What hits did you write BTW?

[@cygnusfloyd]

@@irishmoon1283 The same number as you, bozo. One must produce the very thing one is critical of just to have the honor of criticizing it? Jesus, don't tell and critics that lmao. Fuck off.

[@Jackson099]

@@cygnusfloyd what a delightful and well mannered person you are. The knack had many great songs... they weren’t really a one-hit-wonder as they were still popular once my sharona died down

[@bengunns9500]

i loved this band as soon as i heard them

[@KONAROCK1]

My dad was in a band with Jon from Journey back in the 70s and about a year or two before the Knack got together, Doug tried out to play bass in Jon and Dad's band, but he didn't quite fit. It was a blessing in disguise for Doug! :)

[@markyncole]

The Babys?

[@11vec]

My Sharona was big in Australia in 1979, It was my favorite song on the charts at the time. I was an excited 13 year old and bought the single as soon as it was released then later the album Get the Knack

[@lbl9066]

Loved song, then and now in 2022!

[@albertbaker2479]

I had a girl i elementary school they told me to stop singing this song cuz shehated it loved it one of my first and best memories of elementary school

[@NotWorthIt9]

The first time I heard this song was in 1979 on a local FM top 40 station called Y-103 Sharon/Youngstown. I don't remember the month. I went into my sisters room to talk to them about something, and the late 70's discoish crap was spewing from the stereo. As I remember, there was a station ID followed by about 10 seconds of silence. Then came the opening beats. We stopped talking, and were mesmerized by the sound. When the song finished we looked at each other & wondered what the Hell just happened. It was the full album version - not the single. Kinda left me breathless.

[@jameschanin1520]

I had this on 8 trac . 1979

[@kirkleroy988]

The whole album is good.

[@SThompsonRAMM_1203]

Kirk LeRoy , my Mom bought me a really nice record stereo, with 8-track, and an FM tuner (with that really cool LED red light) that told you you were actually listening to a stereo station). Anyway, I was also given “Get the Knack” and when I put the album on, from the opening track, “Let Me Out”, I was hooked. Every song was gold, even Buddy Holly’s cover, “Heartbeat”. So many fans singing their praises today but those same fans and ugly music critics back then that dumped on their sophomore album. I don’t care what they put out, I loved it!

[@bwworld]

"Everybody's got a story about My Sharona"? How about this: The first time I heard My Sharona I was with a group of college students hanging out at Jones Beach....including, by an amazing coincident, a girl named Sharona. We had the radio on WNEW-FM, and this song came on. I'll never forget the look on Sharona's face! We all immediately got up and started dancing and jumping around like crazy. Don't know whatever happened to Sharona P, but that was an unforgettable moment.

[@focusedmessagemarketing958]

bwworld WNEW Scott Muni. R.I.P.

[@andrehoule8549]

I had this on 8 trac . 1979 AWESOME! WERE is par #2?.

[@Patbooth1798]

Good old 1979 there's just nothing like it "love the Knack"

[@julkitan3017]

4:50 when he plays the Strato and you hear that great tone!

[@1dawnf]

Feiger had so much stage presence..

[@rollittakeit]

Please, please, please re-upload Part 2. It's not available in *any* country. It looks like it was blocked by a copyright claim, because depending on what country you access it from it says different things on the screen. My guess is that KZbin would not block it now if you re-upload it unless the surviving band members and family have an issue with it. Bruce was a genius and unbelievable drummer. This should be seen in it's original format to a testament to his work and the rest of the band as well.

[@AcidReignStudios]

MCA Whitney Studio was in Glendale - but NOT on Glendale Ave. It was on Glenoaks Blvd. I passed by it all the time on the way to work. Pat Benatar recorded there as well.

[@robertdevoy3119]

Doug was a tremendous talent. Obtain the two Sky albums from the early 70's for proof. Personally, I thought the 2nd album was pretty darn good. It wasn't a change in direction which is probably what the record company wanted anyway. It was instead, a continuation of the sound and feel of the first record. One way to appreciate the 2nd record more is to look at the first and second records as a two record set or double album. From that perspective it could be considered a fantastic double album.

[@tomnick5787]

I still have the album!☺

[@MrKiss5150]

How big was this song ?? Huge here in Australia great great song

[@BIGDUCKHUNTFAN]

MrKiss5150 Longest Billboard topping song in murica’ back in ,79

[@donaldfewell9929]

Very big in the USA.

[@JohnCoctostan]

Great guitar solo in this song.

[@SidLaw500]

Terrific 1st album.

[@intransit5719]

Beside Graceland and the epic "Boxer" I think this is Paul Simon´s most dynamic record- forgive me as ..." ..I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest"

[@MarquisVonLion]

Use to see them at the Troubadour back in LA, they were a pretty tight band...

[@rofflesvanwagon]

This is awesome

[@edgarallanpoet]

AWESOME!

[@SavoirRare]

Doug Fieger had the "Eddie Vedder grin" before Eddie Vedder.

[@mrlafayette1964]

the intro was great but for me, that guitar solo.

[@dougrockstead]

One of the greatest pure guitar solos ever

[@matthewburrows4359]

So underrated, up there with the Replacements.

[@gretahottunareed]

We miss you folks

[@Rich3940]

I LOVED Playing my Sharona it's still awesome I play all kinds of music but rock music has been my most favorite of all !!!!! :)

[@flipjack]

Why is part 2 missing? Says not available in this country....

[@fernandogarajalde4066]

It’s always the “little 🍌 banana” that thinks of the great music 🎼 riffs. 😎🎸

[@Paula-vf3nd]

I mean, what a TUNE!!! XX

[@Lolong01]

the sicks th guitar solo sooo cooL

[@Poppaea-Sabina]

It is about a 25 year old man trying to hit on a 16 year old girl. It says very clearly, " I always get it up for touch of the younger kind."

[@intransit5719]

...yes, that´s what it is all about when you are a teen. Now in my 50´s it´s a different story ..😂

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Thankfully so true😅.

[@davidquinn6776]

Pure power pop!

[@milan5079]

4:34 how to get this tone

[@theselector4733]

The lead guitarist looks like a younger version of Mr Burns with curly hair LOL

[@Run4Videos]

Well, finding my Sharona (her name too); she's 23. From India as a nutrition person where i live in Minnesota. My Sharona; she's looking so beautiful! Thanx 4 uploading the knack vids.

[@STeediamond]

my name is sharona xD kinda proud

[@Mike-bp2hh]

U should be

[@ssalemi]

"PUMP IT UP"

[@onetakeadventureswithjoeld4679]

ICONIC

[@marceibel1131]

As brilliant as Bruce Gary was, what is with their Drummer Pug Baker..? There is not much about him here on You Tube, just 2 great Drum Solos..

[@DAKYOF]

I love music and also soccer this guy looks like The Argentinian Messi the best soccer player of all time.

[@ROOKTABULA]

4:47 Christ! It's like Fieger is just learning to play....

[@VintageConversation]

Had our first child in August 1979 been a girl, her name would have been Sharona

[@MrSimmies]

Who invited lil Johnny Whitaker to the show(at 5:19)?

[@TheMusicalElitist]

Bloody hell! My Sharona certainly paid Doug well!

[@garyjimenez3690]

What happened to all of dougs guitars?how many did he have

[@sijoth69]

Sharona hit the wall pretty hard.

[@hungfao]

Doug calls it a 'cultural icon'. Whether it is or not may be entirely subjective. I don't entirely disagree with him. It seems like the fans should be the ones to establish this and not him. We were really happy when it came out at the time in a sea of disco. But it is interesting that Doug would say this about his own song while John Lennon and Paul McCartney had never made such a claims about any of their actual cultural icons.

[@Viznel137]

Useless info!Bruce lived in my old Encino neighborhood!This Song?Great cruising song!!!!!

[@NigelDoes]

Best Boy Band ever?

[@teodelfuego]

cultural icon or just an infectious pop song?

[@baileyplays7862]

Cultural icon

[@twinstu50]

WERE is par #2?.

[@chrispybattyone5937]

Why do musicians have to die!? 😢

[@matthewstreet1961]

It's been 12 years since something new has appeared here! Maybe time for me to get rid of this subscription.?

[@NigelDoes]

Fucking hell, THAT'S Sharona?? lol

[@bonoyass]

4:32 which bass is that

[@MitzvosGolem1]

😂😂 lol awesome

[@510Delmundo]

So much coke. So much joy!

[@Cordy712]

"Always get it up at the touch of the younger kind" wow fucking gross

[@hmackie6823]

my story was my sharonna lost in 1970 to Roxanna thew ppooice\

[@diddymuck]

chick looks like Travolta in drag!!!

[@Stevesk0011]

That one guy looks just like John Lennon in the new footage.

[@Vortigan07]

7:24 Surely it's the power of Christ that compels you,isn't it??

[@novi0974]

Love it ;-)

[@ultrakool]

dun dun da da dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun da da dun dun...my scrotum -cheech marin (cheech & chong's next movie)

[@rocknrollteacherpy]

I didn't know lionel messi had a band

[@mcferdynandbarreto1586]

Grande Messi!!!

[@isabelgavilan4811]

Sin duda es una hermosa canción que marcó una época ♥️♥️

[@keithpodhradsky1314]

The Pop were a much better band without a hit.

[@dwoscar5]

IGUALITO A MESSI JAJAJAJA

[@franciscopinto3750]

También me di cuenta. Igual a cuando comenzó a jugar.

[@Cordy712]

Creepy as fuck. Needs to be cancelled.

[@weeklystuffhd8335]

Wtf?

[@Cordy712]

@@weeklystuffhd8335 did you watch it? he was obsessed with a child

[@weeklystuffhd8335]

@@Cordy712 bruh Chill he wasn't a pedo

[@Cordy712]

@@weeklystuffhd8335 Bruh chill did you watch the fucking video lol

[@Cordy712]

@@weeklystuffhd8335 What was the age of Sharona?

[@KellyPace-i3c]

The knack sucks

[@Andres-xc7de]

Why Lionel Messi didnt let us know earlier about his past as front man and guitarrist is beyond me.