MY SHARONA
“My Sharona” is the debut single by the Knack. The song was written by Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, and released in 1979 from their album Get the Knack. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart where it remained for 6 weeks, and was number one on its 1979 Top Pop Singles year-end chart. It was Capitol Records’ fastest gold status debut single since the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1964. (More from Wikipedia)
One of the loudest of the “disco sucks” crowd among the friends that I had back then pushed The Knack as what we should all like instead. All I had ever heard at that point was “My Sharona”, and I was inclined to say with Peggy Lee: “Is That All There Is?”.
(March 2012)
