THE KNACK - My Sharona | FIRST TIME REACTION

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[@dipsydoodle7988]

Everyone in the know just sitting there snickering about why the actual song is 5+ minutes. 😊 One of the best known and beloved, epic guitar solos and interludes transitioning back into the chorus. Gotta love it.

[@billwilson7948]

I am unfortunately not in the know. Please share so I can join the club.

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@billwilson7948 the official video, and often times the radio version cut out the guitar solo. So if you didn't have the album, you would have no idea why the album version would be 5 minutes long.

[@susanfigueroa872]

I agree! I never heard that solo before and it was damn good! Wow! Completely changed my view and my head!Thanks! @@dipsydoodle7988

[@floorticket]

So glad you did the album version. One of the most outstanding guitar solos of the 70s.

[@michaelschroeder8005]

My favorite guitar solo of all-time. My 12-year old spirit rises every time I hear the entire solo. So underrated. OMG sooo good. Great comment, my friend.

[@scottprentice6815]

Unfairly thought of as a one hit wonder. They actually have TWO. Check out "Good Girls Don't" from the same debut album if you're interested in hearing the second one.

[@andydurazo5337]

Actually three. Baby Talks Dirty off But The Little Girls Understand was also a hit.

[@gpxo11]

@@andydurazo5337 Actually four-with the song Frustrated.

[@MarkChappell1]

The whole of this first album is so great, the songs so well done both clever and catchy. The musicianship is first class, honorable mention going to the Guitar player and the Drummer. Drumming on all songs is some of the best I've heard on any record. Give the album a listen!

[@philhunter9134]

Yes. It's a song. From a band. From an album. And yes, Sharona is an actual person.

[@davidschecter5247]

That guitar solo by Berton Averre is as good as it gets. So melodic and interesting -- not just fast for fasts sake.

[@bradleypaulus2926]

This ended up being the #1 song of 1979 and it began the end of commercialized disco.

[@Brandi6666]

This is a top tier guitar solo among rock songs. ❤️🤘. The knack were a power house innovative band

[@pamnicklas5536]

I can't stop my head from bopping either...and I've heard this song hundreds of times!

[@laurenpeck3609]

A good stuttering song is “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by BTO

[@rachelbrachman1510]

Hahaha! I sing this to my cat, Fiona all the time. My-my-my- my Fiona!

[@dcg4mn]

I lived in the East Village on 10th & B when Punk arose in conjunction with London. I’m sure you can picture the punk clubs exploded in joy and wild dancing whenever this was played (and other greats like the Clash etc) Saw countless great live performances, my fave places were Stinky’s, CBGB’s of course, Max’s, best bar: Downtown Beirut -last of the blue Mohawks 😆😎

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

No one ever mentions what a fantastic band name the Knack is.

[@hatleyhoward7193]

Some things are just inferred truths, and considered facts.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@hatleyhoward7193 well yeah. As my consciousness uses my brain to cobble together some form of a working reality in order to survive. I occasionally peer out through the veil of illusions, awestruck as I try to comprehend what a fantastic band name The Knack is, and more importantly I ponder why “Good Girls Don’t”.

[@todwest]

I remember the summer this hit, I became absolutely sick of it. It was everywhere. I remember listening to the radio on the beach one day when it came on. I immediately started searching for another station -- only to discover it was being played simultaneously on SIX separate stations I was able to pick up. I shut the radio off and went for a swim. LOL I love it, of course, but at the time it was like being besieged.

[@hotflesh66]

This song was integral to the 1980s movie Reality Bites with Winona Ryde, Ethan Hawke, and Janine Garafalo where they dance in a convenience store! Clip on youtube.

[@philhunter9134]

This entire album rocks.

[@hungfao]

The whole album is worth listening to at least once.

[@Montyliciuos69]

Drummer nailed this song 🤟🤟🇦🇺

[@sharonpate5481]

People I worked with used to call me Sharona! 💜👵🏼☮️

[@djfrank68]

There's a song from this album that you'll never hear on radio called The Monkey and Me/Siamese Twin. Great deep cut.

[@doplinger1]

I had this when it came out but I don’t really remember the non-hit tracks; I’ll have to go back and listen!

[@jennifermullen9891]

I grew up watching Full House and every time I hear this song all I can visualize is Uncle Jesse. Lol

[@susanrombak7959]

1979, Rocking out listening to WLUP (the Loop) in Chicago right at the cusp of the Disco era fading to its demise. What a summer! 🔥

[@chitownlee]

Steve Dahl did his parody of this song and called it Ayatollah. 😆

[@Noelle0026]

Yes The Loop! Excellent station.

[@Noelle0026]

⁠@@chitownleeYes, Steve and Gary

[@jackcotner8981]

Excellent selection!

[@rickrobinson672]

Get the Knack is a fantastic album.

[@laurenpeck3609]

🔥🔥🔥

[@mamaflush9945]

Here's a band you've reacted to before and seemed to enjoy their music. And it's a song that also has a fun, catchy stutter as well. "Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - 1974 Video sound HQ" This song is on their 1974 album "Fragile." As always I enjoyed rocking with you, bro.

[@ozmaile7938]

For the # 1 studding song...." You an't seen nothing Yet " Bachman-Turner Overdrive

[@Itelkner]

Gotta love the solo break... like the new wave version of Freebird.

[@jodyjackson5475]

Good times!!

[@michaelkruska6097]

That's what the little girls do, Oh Tara..... So many amazing songs by them. Thought they are judged as a one hit wonder

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Get the neck is actually a great album. Every song on it is amazing in its own way. They even do a Buddy Holly cover on there and they interpret it in their own way and it's incredible. But they did have another hit off this album and I believe it is the last song on side B of the album, Good Girls don't. But they had to do like a radio edit for it because of some of the lyrics. So those of us that bought the album which were a whole lot of us knew it the real way, but the song is 99% the same on the radio it's just a couple over dubs were done on a phrase or two here and there.

[@billwilson7948]

Knack. Not neck.

[@davidthompson7485]

It's in UP IN SMOKE.....Cheech and Chong....."Myyyy Cheechona" !!

[@bobschenkel7921]

Found it! Right behind the Bruce Springsteen LP Box Compilation, my copy of "Get The Knack", which I bought in 1979 when I was in college. Still in excellent condition, considering all it, and the rest of my record collection have gone through. Looking at the back, "My Sharona" started off the second side of the LP. One other "hit" was "Good Girls Don't", along with "That's What The Little Girls Do". Sensing a trend here? There is a "live performance" video version on KZbin that is pretty cool. The Knack were known, at the time, as "one of those skinny tie New Wave bands". You know the rest. Thanks, excellent reaction.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Always loved the guitar solo in this one. One of the best songs from the '80s because of it.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

“The Knack, and how to get it” was a 1965 British movie, directed by Richard Lester, who did two of The Beatles films then. It’s about a Ladies Man, in London who tries to teach and awkward man “the Knack” to get Women.

[@barrycohen311]

Great song. This was fresh when it came out when I was in High School. Like songs that include Stuttering? Ha ha Check out Bachman Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." :-)

[@raymondregis6219]

Fun song - everyone loved this my senior year in high school.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

Way underrated guitar solo. Partly because the “pop radio” edit cut it out. Check out their 3rd album “Round Trip”, my favorite of theirs. One critic called it the most underrated album of all time. Out of print and hard to find, it didn’t go well when first released, and the band broke up afterwards, but it’s worth checking out.

[@jons.105]

One of the greatest guitar solos ever! Radio play proved problematic, however, and the solo got slashed for time. Both song and album went to #1 in 1979. The band was also almost universally despised by rock critics who felt the group hadn't properly paid their dues (and for the Beatles imagery). The guys did have a few other hits, but rapidly changing styles in music left The Knack seeming like a novelty. Too bad, as this album and their follow-up are full of great tracks.

[@DannyD714]

this came out during the punk rock/new wave takeover of the radio airwaves,and was a reminder of what great rock and roll was like.

[@Canucklehead557]

Good Girls Don't is another great track from this album, but the entire record was great.

[@knojustenuftobedangerous2442]

My wife's name is Cheryl. Since this song was released I have always called her Sharona. Fun song!

[@librarylady13]

Try their songs "Good Girls Don't" and "That's What The Little Girls Do".

[@kestrelle5345]

Best stuttering in a song goes to...Bachman Turner Overdrive "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".

[@rhondamcewananderson3968]

Everyone had this! Lol..🎶🤩

[@user-gu1zb6cw6t]

One of the funniest, catchiest, most unique songs of all time!! I think their only other hit was Good Girls Don't.

[@marko7225]

This is one of those unfortunate situations in where this song was so huge that people got sick of them from the overplay of this song. They had so many good songs on this album like "Lucinda", "Your Number or your Name", "Oh Tara", "She's so Selfish", etc...and a few hits off other following albums, but admittedly not nearly as good as this album, but, many years later they made a comeback and for me, the album "Zoom", was their best album! I'm not sure anyone heard it, but to me it was spectacular.

[@rickcole349]

This a good song to turn you on to Weird Al Yankovic. He wrote a parody called My Bologna. Weird Al has had 45 year career where he has dozens of clever comic parodies of top hits. Another One Rides the Bus parodies Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust. All of them are done with the utmost respect for the original songs and artists.

[@dgator3599]

Danced to this song many times at the clubs. The 80s was a great time in music.

[@patticampana9458]

Ah. College Days. Stay healthy!

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Love how melodic the guitar solo is. Another stuttering song: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by the Guess Who

[@mikefetterman6782]

Me and my boomer/gen x friends agree, this is the perfect rock song.

[@mikefetterman6782]

unfortunately, yes, a one hit wonder. That got on the charts one more time, but it never made the top 20 like this. Sometimes, there is lightning in a bottle.

[@lisar.6670]

I've always dug this song since it came out but not enough to buy the album. Just the way I am. However, I never knew that there was this outstanding guitar solo! I could be wrong, but I do not recall FM radio giving credit to #Sharona where credit was due during airplay. FM = assholes! ...

[@punkfish]

Clicked on this preparing to click off, tbh, until I heard you say it was 5+ minutes long and knew you were playing the album version. Thanx so much! Its AM radio (over) saturation was a blessing and a curse. Got them lots of airplay & recognition, but sooo many people only knew the short (i.e. mostly solo-free) version, which sucked, given just how great the solo was/is. Kinda reminds of Ram Jam's "Black Betty", in that most reactors seem to only do the MV version, which misses a lot of great guitar work.

[@CheshorcatBeats]

That bassline is sick

[@KidBklyn]

The lead singer Doug Fieger actually had a mad crush on that girl named Sharona. But from what I understand, she wouldn't give him the time of day.

[@mamaflush9945]

TY Jons❤‍🔥

[@jons.105]

💋

[@patticampana9458]

I believe she was a realtor. Showing him a house. No, he didn't end up with her😁

[@lesblatnyak5947]

In highschool orchestra, the trumpet player started playing this and slowly all of this started jamming along, then suddenly he jumped to the front dancing like a processed maniac. Good times. 🙏🍁

[@jonpriest]

have you heard oingo boingo's dead mans party?

[@Montyliciuos69]

Great Album👍🏻🇦🇺next song is Shes so selfish🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@MarkLang61]

Would love to see you get back into "The Warning". Haven't seen them on your channel in quite a while.

[@rickcurl7373]

If you like this, take a listen to good girls dont by the knack

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

…… they caught lightning in a bottle for this one ! Basically a 1 hit wonder 🔥🎸

[@Montyliciuos69]

Did this song in 1 take 🤟🤟🤟🤟👍🏻🇦🇺

[@QuirkydudeKevin]

This song helped end disco.

[@bobdelp2023]

THIS IS WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A 1 HIT WONDER BAND SHAWN, AND A BIG ONE!😊WE USED TO SAY ( MY CORONA ) AS IN TOYOTA 😊

[@doplinger1]

They had another hit but this was the big one!

[@brenthenderson3983]

I think Good Girls Don't was their first hit...

[@mattjohn4731]

"get the knack" would fit great in this vocal rhythm but it's not in this song. Not sure if it's another one but this is a banger. I watched a YT doc The Chinatown Punk Wars which said The Knack took off while gigging at Madame Wong's in Los Angeles' Chinatown

[@danwagner1702]

This band never got the credit they were due. GET THE KNACK is a really good album from beginning to end. FYI: Rhythm guitarist/lead singer Doug Fieger's older brother Geoffrey was Jack Kevorkian's attorney. Also know as Dr. Death, Kevorkian assisted terminally ill patients end their lives.

[@gpxo11]

Don't rave too much-when this song came out Capitol Records(which was the Beatles label) promoted them as the next Beatles. Uh-Oh death knell and dagger for the band which they never recovered.

[@andydurazo5337]

Stuttering? You need to catch You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman Turner Overdrive.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

For those of us who do stutter, (me since 3rd grade, learned control, still happens on telephone often). You do not stutter when singing. So, an artificial stutter can be annoying like Porky Pig. Yet, in the part Monty Python film, “a Fish called Wanda” the comedic yet true Anxiety of stuttering, I accept.

[@andydurazo5337]

@@jonathanmurphy3141 I didn’t mean any harm. Was just pointing out the use of that singing technique. Hope I wasn’t offensive.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

@@andydurazo5337 When people do "Porky Pig" imitation to you, or turn their back and walk away, actual, that gets offensive. Watch the film "the King's Speech" if you will. There is an anxiety, and social struggle to be heard, and respected. Some stutter in music, like The Who' "My generation" the youth is intended to be on amphetamine, which was a favorite of The Mod's in the 60's.I learned through speech therapy, if you don't talk in your own voice, you don't stutter. I learned through audio to do very credit;e Irish, Scots, Australianaccents- in a second -it can "freak out" some people, that one who lives in Ohio, starts to stutter, and then becomes Scottish. "well, to bad, I can talk" Different methods to cope.

[@Brandi6666]

🤭🤭🤭🤭 i’m sure you are hearing the lyrics as they sound, not as they are written out🤭🤭🤭🤭 so yeh your hearing the actual lyrics

[@tomcollens4621]

Uh, video ?!!!!!!

[@Roddeau1]

Yeah, a one hit wonder band. I dont recall another song from them on the radio back in the day.

[@doplinger1]

“Good Girls Don’t” hit #1 in Canada. #11 on USA Billboard chart

[@markmurphy558]

God, I wish Alex would stop comparing these 70s classics to more modern music and production techniques. The fact of the matter is that the recording industry has been slowly sinking into mediocrity for 30 years

[@tomcollens4621]

Shows what you know. Maybe let the song play….

[@EpicFrozenMoment]

This actually won a poll on a NY/NJ area radio station when I was in High School - for the absolute WORST rock and roll song ever,

[@davidlipman8093]

This is the Song that buried Disco.

[@richardmiller1289]

Bad news for you they were a 1 hit wonder. But that doesn't take away the greatness of this classic song.