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The Knack - About My Sharona Part 1 of 3

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  • Опубликовано: 10 мар 2008
  • 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!!

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  • @jakemarlow8998
    @jakemarlow8998 3 года назад +31

    Bruce Gary was an absolute beast on drums.

    • @drumznfishes
      @drumznfishes Год назад +2

      RIP❤🥁

    • @vincewylde8523
      @vincewylde8523 Год назад +5

      @@drumznfishes Came here to say this exact thing!

    • @deaterk
      @deaterk Год назад

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

    • @invisibleman1028
      @invisibleman1028 Месяц назад

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

  • @daitos1955
    @daitos1955 11 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @davidsafier6333
    @davidsafier6333 5 лет назад +61

    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
      @ylilycam 3 года назад +3

      Oh wow I love that!!

    • @jasona9
      @jasona9 3 года назад +4

      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
      @nickphaux 4 месяца назад +1

      Working to be that son one day right now 😅.

  • @ETRacing
    @ETRacing 11 лет назад +26

    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!

  • @tommycollins7846
    @tommycollins7846 4 года назад +25

    RIP, Doug Fieger and Bruce Gary!

    • @jasona9
      @jasona9 3 года назад +3

      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.

  • @douggrey6253
    @douggrey6253 2 месяца назад +1

    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!!

  • @ponzo1967
    @ponzo1967 10 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @stevenally1457
    @stevenally1457 11 лет назад +5

    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.

  • @shethingsd
    @shethingsd Год назад +4

    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
      @shethingsd Год назад

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

  • @bengunns9500
    @bengunns9500 5 лет назад +7

    i loved this band as soon as i heard them

  • @KONAROCK1
    @KONAROCK1 10 лет назад +7

    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! :)

  • @stevenally1457
    @stevenally1457 11 лет назад +7

    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
      @konfoooshus6209 4 года назад +1

      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
      @perpetualgrin5804 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @lbl9066
    @lbl9066 Год назад +2

    Loved song, then and now in 2022!

  • @len-zeplin480
    @len-zeplin480 5 лет назад +15

    Awesome how Proud these guys were about their work.

    • @cygnusfloyd
      @cygnusfloyd 4 года назад

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

    • @irishmoon1283
      @irishmoon1283 3 года назад +2

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

    • @cygnusfloyd
      @cygnusfloyd 3 года назад

      @@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
      @Jackson099 3 года назад

      @@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

  • @11vec
    @11vec 3 месяца назад

    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

  • @boataxe4605
    @boataxe4605 7 лет назад +48

    This band helped save us from Disco!!

    • @bobpierce115
      @bobpierce115 7 лет назад

      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
      @bobpierce115 7 лет назад

      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
      @boataxe4605 7 лет назад +1

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

    • @bobpierce115
      @bobpierce115 7 лет назад

      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
      @bonkeydollocks1879 5 лет назад

      God bless the knack ! Thank you !

  • @NotWorthIt9
    @NotWorthIt9 2 года назад +2

    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
    @jameschanin1520 7 лет назад +13

    I had this on 8 trac . 1979

  • @bwworld
    @bwworld 11 лет назад +8

    "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.

  • @patbooth1798
    @patbooth1798 3 года назад +2

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

  • @julkitan3017
    @julkitan3017 8 лет назад +11

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

  • @kirkleroy988
    @kirkleroy988 4 года назад +10

    The whole album is good.

    • @SThompsonRAMM_1203
      @SThompsonRAMM_1203 4 года назад +2

      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!

  • @JohnCoctostan
    @JohnCoctostan 5 лет назад +3

    Great guitar solo in this song.

  • @1dawnf
    @1dawnf 9 лет назад +18

    Feiger had so much stage presence..

  • @tomnick5787
    @tomnick5787 2 года назад +2

    I still have the album!☺

  • @SidLaw500
    @SidLaw500 Год назад +1

    Terrific 1st album.

  • @AcidReignStudios
    @AcidReignStudios 10 лет назад +2

    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
    @robertdevoy3119 7 лет назад +7

    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.

  • @rofflesvanwagon
    @rofflesvanwagon 2 года назад +1

    This is awesome

  • @intransit5719
    @intransit5719 4 года назад +2

    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"

  • @matthewburrows4359
    @matthewburrows4359 7 лет назад +1

    So underrated, up there with the Replacements.

  • @gretahottunareed
    @gretahottunareed 2 года назад +1

    We miss you folks

  • @edgarallanpoet
    @edgarallanpoet 16 лет назад +2

    AWESOME!

  • @MarquisVonLion
    @MarquisVonLion 11 лет назад +2

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

  • @andrehoule8549
    @andrehoule8549 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @Rich3940
    @Rich3940 11 лет назад +2

    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 !!!!! :)

  • @SavoirRare
    @SavoirRare 5 лет назад +5

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

  • @rollittakeit
    @rollittakeit 10 лет назад +2

    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 RUclips 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.

  • @mrlafayette1964
    @mrlafayette1964 4 года назад +5

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

    • @dougrockstead
      @dougrockstead 4 года назад +3

      One of the greatest pure guitar solos ever

  • @MrKiss5150
    @MrKiss5150 13 лет назад +7

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

    • @BIGDUCKHUNTFAN
      @BIGDUCKHUNTFAN 6 лет назад

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

    • @donaldfewell9929
      @donaldfewell9929 5 лет назад +1

      Very big in the USA.

  • @Paula-vf3nd
    @Paula-vf3nd Год назад

    I mean, what a TUNE!!! XX

  • @milan5079
    @milan5079 3 года назад +2

    4:34 how to get this tone

  • @fFrage01
    @fFrage01 4 месяца назад

    the sicks th guitar solo sooo cooL

  • @fernandogarajalde4066
    @fernandogarajalde4066 2 месяца назад

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

  • @Run4Videos
    @Run4Videos 10 лет назад

    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.

  • @davidquinn6776
    @davidquinn6776 2 месяца назад

    Pure power pop!

  • @DAKYOF
    @DAKYOF 7 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @flipjack
    @flipjack 10 лет назад +3

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

  • @Poppaea-Sabina
    @Poppaea-Sabina 8 месяцев назад

    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."

  • @STeediamond
    @STeediamond 12 лет назад +6

    my name is sharona xD kinda proud

  • @intransit5719
    @intransit5719 4 года назад +4

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

  • @ssalemi
    @ssalemi 7 лет назад +5

    "PUMP IT UP"

  • @theselector4733
    @theselector4733 2 года назад +1

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

  • @onetakeadventureswithjoeld4679
    @onetakeadventureswithjoeld4679 2 года назад

    ICONIC

  • @ROOKTABULA
    @ROOKTABULA 6 лет назад +1

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

  • @marceibel1131
    @marceibel1131 2 года назад +1

    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..

  • @MrSimmies
    @MrSimmies 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @garyjimenez3690
    @garyjimenez3690 3 года назад

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

  • @TheMusicalElitist
    @TheMusicalElitist 2 года назад

    Bloody hell! My Sharona certainly paid Doug well!

  • @sijoth69
    @sijoth69 5 лет назад +3

    Sharona hit the wall pretty hard.

  • @twinstu50
    @twinstu50 10 лет назад +1

    WERE is par #2?.

  • @bonoyass
    @bonoyass 4 года назад

    4:32 which bass is that

  • @hungfao
    @hungfao 5 лет назад

    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
    @Viznel137 16 лет назад +1

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

  • @NigelDoes
    @NigelDoes 8 лет назад

    Best Boy Band ever?

  • @teodelfuego
    @teodelfuego 4 года назад +1

    cultural icon or just an infectious pop song?

  • @chrispybattyone5937
    @chrispybattyone5937 2 года назад +1

    Why do musicians have to die!? 😢

  • @matthewstreet1961
    @matthewstreet1961 3 года назад

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

  • @Stevesk0011
    @Stevesk0011 11 лет назад +2

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

  • @hmackie6823
    @hmackie6823 5 лет назад

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

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem1 Год назад

    😂😂 lol awesome

  • @Vortigan07
    @Vortigan07 8 лет назад +3

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

  • @NigelDoes
    @NigelDoes 8 лет назад +1

    Fucking hell, THAT'S Sharona?? lol

  • @diddymuck
    @diddymuck 3 года назад +1

    chick looks like Travolta in drag!!!

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool 11 лет назад +1

    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)

  • @Cordy712
    @Cordy712 3 года назад +4

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

  • @thesoundboardstudio
    @thesoundboardstudio 3 года назад

    I didn't know lionel messi had a band

  • @510Delmundo
    @510Delmundo 4 года назад

    So much coke. So much joy!

  • @mcferdynandbarreto1586
    @mcferdynandbarreto1586 3 года назад

    Grande Messi!!!

    • @isabelgavilan4811
      @isabelgavilan4811 Год назад

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

  • @keithpodhradsky1314
    @keithpodhradsky1314 Год назад

    The Pop were a much better band without a hit.

  • @dwoscar5
    @dwoscar5 9 лет назад +1

    IGUALITO A MESSI JAJAJAJA

    • @franciscopinto3750
      @franciscopinto3750 7 лет назад +1

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

  • @Cordy712
    @Cordy712 3 года назад +3

    Creepy as fuck. Needs to be cancelled.

    • @weeklystuffhd8335
      @weeklystuffhd8335 3 года назад

      Wtf?

    • @Cordy712
      @Cordy712 3 года назад +2

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

    • @weeklystuffhd8335
      @weeklystuffhd8335 3 года назад +1

      @@Cordy712 bruh Chill he wasn't a pedo

    • @Cordy712
      @Cordy712 3 года назад

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

    • @Cordy712
      @Cordy712 3 года назад

      @@weeklystuffhd8335 What was the age of Sharona?

  • @user-yv4ze9dz5t
    @user-yv4ze9dz5t Год назад

    The knack sucks

  • @Andres-xc7de
    @Andres-xc7de Год назад

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