The Knack
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Oct 30, 2026
WoodyHOST
Riff.
WoodyHOST
The Knack.
WoodyHOST
The Knack.
WoodyHOST
Yeah.
WoodyHOST
The Knack.
MenaceHOST
I can just imagine Greg, you know, in his classic Mustang.
MenaceHOST
Yeah.
Benny ScalaHOST
Good year for music.
Benny ScalaHOST
Number six is My Sharona by the Knack.
Benny ScalaHOST
I think that was number one last time we talked about 1979.
Benny ScalaHOST
Stayed number one for a good while, and they were two hit wonders.
Mike GendlerHOST
So tell the audience what you have coming up.
Mike GendlerHOST
Anything coming up in the next year? Yeah, so I'm going to be singing for the knack.
Mike GendlerHOST
I love the Knack.
Mike GendlerHOST
Knack is like, man, I haven't heard the Knack.
Mike GendlerHOST
Now I'm going to be fanning out a little bit because not a lot of people that I talk to understand, and I'm just saying, I don't know what you're feeling on it, how great the Knack was, how well the songs were written.
Mike GendlerHOST
So sorry to cut you off, but man, the Knack, if somebody mentions the Knack, I'm like, tell me more.
Mike GendlerHOST
Where are they playing? What's going on?
Matt StarrGUEST
Right, right.
Samuel SpencerHOST
Over here, went to number six in 1979.
Samuel SpencerHOST
But it's certainly true that this song gets its main impetus from My Sharona by the knack.
Samuel SpencerHOST
Not only a number six hit here but a US number one single back in 1979 when it was the biggest selling song of the year in the US and it is still in the top 100 biggest selling songs in American chart history.
Samuel SpencerHOST
It was a song written by 25 year old Doug Fieger when he met the 17 year old Sharona Alperin.
Samuel SpencerHOST
He told the Washington Post, the song was written from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy.
Samuel SpencerHOST
It's just an honest song about a 14-year-old boy, which obviously is him trying to, you know, get rid of the weird pedo undertones, being like, actually, it's written about an older woman to the protagonist of the song, which doesn't bear any scrutiny whatsoever when you think about the fact this song contains one of the most chilling lines in any pop song's never gonna stop give it up such a dirty mind I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind it's not it's not good is it I mean my Sharona is a great song but my god eventually Sharona caved in she was engaged to the songwriter at one point but they never married they were together for about four years Sharona saying that she broke up with him because she needed to become her own Sharona not somebody else's She actually went on to have a successful career as a realtor in LA.
Samuel SpencerHOST
And indeed, this Rogue Traders track is not the only song to be inspired by that song by The Knack.
Samuel SpencerHOST
Quincy Jones said that it was hearing this song that inspired Michael Jackson to want to have his own go at writing a rock song, which led to him creating Beat It.
MickHOST
Which American rock band released My Sharona in 1979?
DaveHOST
My Sharona was released by The Knack.
DaveHOST
It spent six weeks at number one in America.
MickHOST
Question eight.
Brett VargoHOST
But then before that, they were this very rough band fast punk band, and I don't think a lot of people realize that.
Brett VargoHOST
The Knack, obviously they were huge with My Sharona, put out some very solid records that I don't think get enough love.
Brett VargoHOST
Harry Nilsson, it still bothers me to this day that Harry Nilsson's best known for two songs he didn't write, Everybody's Talking and Without You.
Brett VargoHOST
Chumbawamba, everybody remembers I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again, but what a cool little anarchic punk band going back to the 1980s.
RobHOST
Straight from the 70s, Power Pop sound file.
RobHOST
Very in the mode of Joe Jackson, The Knack, Nick Lowe, The Shoes, and so on.
RobHOST
That was Good Time Call.
RobHOST
It's the opening track and lead single on the 2025 Power Pop EP by the Pennsylvania-based band The Jive and released by Gem Records.
Will HarrisHOST
Marshall's latest release, The Bootleg Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw, finds him delving into his archives and coming up with some particularly interesting material, including a mixture of originals and cover songs.
Will HarrisHOST
We talk about the record in some detail, as you might imagine, but we also talk about plenty of other things, including playing with Bruce Springsteen, almost playing with Bob Dylan, collaborating with Was Not Was on a song that brings together the lead singer of The Knack and a one-time member of Kiss, appearing on Pete and Pete, his connection to the MC5, covering Bootsy Collins, and much, much more.
Will HarrisHOST
Well, that's probably enough of an intro.
Will HarrisHOST
It's time to let Marshall Crenshaw talk.
45 MINS LATER
Marshall CrenshawGUEST
I thought about it for like a fraction of a second before I said, yes, of course.
Marshall CrenshawGUEST
Yeah.
Will HarrisHOST
One of the things about the Was Not Was collaboration, I think the song Smile is the only place where you, the Knack, and Kiss meet on the same place on the flowchart.
Will HarrisHOST
Because Vinnie Vincent and Bruce Kulik play on that.
Zach BlairGUEST
It's maybe a little more akin to a Gibson rather than a Fender, but then again, it's also its own set.
Donovan BlairHOST
Well, you know, we were going back and forth about the Knack the other day, and I came up with this song.
Donovan BlairHOST
It's more like down on the record, and it's a Rick.
Donovan BlairHOST
Not all the whole record.
Donovan BlairHOST
I don't think the whole record is.
Donovan BlairHOST
What band
Zach BlairGUEST
is this you're talking about? The Knack.
Donovan BlairHOST
Oh, the Knack.
NateGUEST
The words came last.
NateGUEST
It was definitely a real intentional sort of like, if there's two bands that I really love that I'm always trying to rip off, one is the knack guys who did my Sharona and it's got a real nice Sharona kind of feel.
NateGUEST
And then also another band that I love that I'm always trying to figure out new ways to rip off is Huey Lewis in the news.
DrewHOST
Oh yeah.
DrewHOST
That makes total sense.
NateGUEST
The song is a complete amalgamation of the knack and Huey Lewis in the news.
NateGUEST
And yeah, Then coming out the other side of that, the words were what happens to fit the music.
DrewHOST
Yeah.
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