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My Sharona
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"My Sharona"
MySharonaCover.jpg
US variant of the standard artwork
Single by the Knack
from the album Get the Knack
B-side "Let Me Out"
Released June 1979
Recorded April 1979
Genre
Power pop[1]new wave[2]
Length 3:58 (single edit)
4:52 (album version)
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Doug Fieger, Berton Averre
Producer(s) Mike Chapman
The Knack singles chronology
"My Sharona"
(1979) "Good Girls Don't"
(1979)

Music video
The Knack – "My Sharona" on YouTube
"My Sharona" (/ʃəˈroʊnə/) 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 six weeks, and was number one on Billboard's 1979 Top Pop Singles year-end chart.
It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing 500.000 copies sold,[3] and was Capitol Records' fastest gold status debut single since the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964.[4]
Contents
1 Inspiration
2 Music and lyrics
3 Music video
4 Artwork
5 Reception
6 Legacy
7 Use in other media
8 Charts and certifications
8.1 Weekly charts
8.2 Year-end charts
8.3 All-time charts
8.4 Sales and certifications
9 Covers, parodies, and samples
9.1 Covers
9.2 Parodies
9.3 Audio samples
10 "Let Me Out"
11 References
12 External links
Inspiration
When Doug Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin,[5] who inspired a two-month-long run of songwriting, as well as eventually becoming his girlfriend for the next four years. Fieger recounted that "It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat; I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something and I started writing a lot of songs feverishly in a short amount of time." Fieger and Averre worked out the structure and melody of the song. Averre was originally averse to using Alperin's name in the song, but Fieger wanted it to be a direct expression of his feelings; Averre ultimately relented.[6] Fieger claimed that "My Sharona" was written in 15 minutes.[7]
Fieger and Alperin were engaged at one point, but never married.[5] In a 2005 interview, Fieger said that they remained "great friends."[5] Alperin went on to a successful career as a realtor in Los Angeles.[8][9]
Music and lyrics
The music of the song echoes many elements of songs from the 1960s. According to a Trouser Press reviewer, the song's main melodic hook is "an inversion of the signature riff" from "Gimme Some Lovin'", a 1967 song by the Spencer Davis Group.[10] Fieger acknowledged that the song's tom-tom drum rhythm is "just a rewrite" of "Going to a Go-Go", a song from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965.[10] Drummer Bruce Gary has stated that although he did not particularly like the song when Fieger introduced it to the band, he came up with the stuttering beat for the song similar to a surf stomp, with just tom-tom and snare.[11] He also decided to incorporate a flam, in which two drum strokes are staggered, creating a fuller sound, which Gary considered to be crucial to the song's success.[11]
In an interview with The Washington Post, Fieger also noted that the song was written from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy.[5]
The song's stuttering vocal effect of the repeated "muh muh muh my Sharona" phrase is reminiscent of Roger Daltrey's vocals in the 1965 song "My Generation" by the Who.[10]

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