My Sharona. The Knack. Bass cover.

Sunday flashback #1. This song was #1 on this date, September 15th, 1979. Breaking my rule of trying not to do songs that have been already covered but it is such a great song. And I am a Knack fan.
The Knack was an American rock band based in Los Angeles that rose to fame with its first single, "My Sharona", an international number-one hit in 1979. The band disbanded in 1982 after 3 albums but reunited in 1986, releasing their fourth album Serious Fun in 1991, before breaking up again the following year.
The band's debut album, Get the Knack, was one of the year's best-selling albums, holding the number one spot on Billboard magazine's album chart for five consecutive weeks and selling two million copies in the United States. At the time, the album was one of the most successful debuts in history, selling over one million copies in less than two months and spending five weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single, "My Sharona", was a No. 1 hit in the US, and became the number-one song of 1979. The follow-up single "Good Girls Don't" peaked at No. 11 in the US, and reached No. 1 in Canada.
When Doug Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin, 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. Fieger claimed that "My Sharona" was written in 15 minutes; moreover, it was purportedly mixed in an additional 15 minutes after the recording of the song was made in a single take (not including background vocals).
Fieger and Alperin were engaged at one point but never married. In a 2005 interview, Fieger said that they remained "great friends"; additionally, she would visit him frequently as Fieger was dying of cancer. Alperin went on to have a successful career as a realtor in Los Angeles. Alperin also posed for the single's picture sleeve holding a copy of the Knack's debut studio album Get the Knack.
Get the Knack was recorded in just two weeks at a cost of only $18,000, an extremely quick and inexpensive recording at a time when many established artists were spending months and several hundred thousand dollars to record an album. And 15 minutes to write the song. All very Rutles like.
The music of this 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 1966 song by the Spencer Davis Group. In an interview with The Washington Post, Fieger claimed that the song was written from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy. 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.
My Sharona has retrospectively been viewed as a symbol for the fall of the 1970s' disco and the rise of the 1980s' new wave. The New York Times called the song "an emblem of the new wave era in rock and a prime example of the brevity of pop fame."
I consider the guitar solo by Berton Averre one of the best in rock. Tasteful, melodic and technical as well. In 2023 Averre calculated to receive between $100,000 and $300,000 annually from his royalties for the song.
I have other Knack covers with more commentary if interested.
Drummer Bruce Gary has also passed.