Band's Debut Single About Exotic Girl SOLD 10 million…Then Both DISAPPEARED! | Professor of Rock
229.3 هزار بار بازدید -
11 ماه پیش
-
Coming up….the saga of how
Coming up….the saga of how a teenage girl at a clothing store completely bewitched a journeyman lead singer- Who wrote a song just minutes after meeting her that would become the fastest-selling debut single since the Beatles… The story of MY SHARONA by The Knack. This song eventually outdid them with 10 million copies sold. Times were good for The Knack with Doug Fieger...they had the #1 song of 1979 and this girl Sharona broke up with her boyfriend to be with Knack singer Doug Feiger but then just as quickly as their fortunes rose they fell… By 1982 the band vanished from the charts forever and Sharona broke up with the singer. Find out what happened to the band and the girl in from a song that is really the Halley’s Comet of rock, next on Professor of Rock.”
Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Zenni
GET ZENNI Glasses HERE: imp.i279709.net/vn5gLd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executive Producer
Brandon Fugal
Honorary Producers
Sarge, Byrdman, Duff Gordon, 22Unchained, Thomas Halterman
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below
Professor's Store
- Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album amzn.to/3tLsII2
- The 80s Collection amzn.to/3mAekOq
- 100 Best Selling Albums amzn.to/3h3qZX9
- Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie amzn.to/3ifjdKQ
- 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art amzn.to/2QXzmIX
- Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon amzn.to/3h4ilrk
- Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) amzn.to/2ZcTlIl
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -bit.ly/ProfessorMerch
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check Out Patron Benefits
bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan
Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support.
Click here for Premium Content: bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent
bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_Rock
bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock
#classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder
Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you ever remember waiting in line around the block to see a great summer blockbuster back in the day you’ll dig this channel. Make sure to subscribe below right now and click the bell so that you never miss an episode. And for more content and behind-the-scenes footage check out our Patreon. and take a look at our new vintage years collection merch right here:
It’s time for another edition of our show Bottled Lightening. In the past, we’ve featured many one-hit scorchers on here, but Bottled Lightening is truly about how a band created a universal song that rose like a comet. In 1979, the four members of the LA-based band The Knack BOTTLED LIGHTNING- with their first single...”My Sharona.” A song about lustful obsession that had one of the hottest, meteoric rises to the top of charts in music history. Only 13 days after its release... “My Sharona” struck GOLD.
It was the fastest single by a debut act to sell over 500,000 copies for Capitol Records, since “I Want to Hold Your Hand” ignited Beatlemania in 1963. The single eventually moved 10 million physical units in the U.S. alone. The Knack’s debut LP, Get The Knack, sold more than a million copies in less than 5 weeks and soared to #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart where it stayed there until Led Zepplin’s In Through the Out Door knocked it off the perch.
The velocity of The Knack’s global takeover was a blessing and a curse for the band. Just as quickly as their music rose to the top of the charts, the group faced a serious backlash- starting with claims that they were a band that was manufactured by their record label and had not paid their dues. Although “My Sharona” was a Halley’s Comet of the rock era, The Knack was no Milli Vanilli... The Knack was a band comprised of hard-working, dedicated musicians, who cut their teeth many years before their phenomenal breakout success.
Singer Doug Fieger was an ambitious young artist in Detroit, Michigan- who fronted a cool local band named SKY. Everyone who saw SKY perform live thought they had great potential, and the aspiring Fieger was determined to get the band's national attention… so he swung for the fences. Fieger, who was just a high school senior at the time, wrote letters to the most respected record producers in the business, George Martin, Shel Talmy, Pete Townshend, and Jimmy Miller asking them to produce his band.
11 ماه پیش
در تاریخ 1402/07/13 منتشر شده
است.
229,394
بـار بازدید شده