Chords for The Knack - About My Sharona Part 2 of 3

What did you guys discuss at five o'clock this morning? _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ Who was that girl Prescott _ _ _ you ready?
Yeah, okay, let's do it.
He said start the tape I _
[G] Don't mean that in a sliding way Mike's contribution was saying I _
Think the way you should record this
Album is as if you were playing your club set
Because you guys present the songs well live because we play well and
So rather than have it be a produced recorded album.
It should be as raw and
straightforward as possible
Basically all Mike's job was was to get the sounds and to push the record button
You know he didn't really produce it per se we pretty much all produced that that record together
Probably my main contribution was to leave it alone was to record it well and
_ Not mess around with it
And my job was to put it on tape and to make it sound the way it sounded when they did it live
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[G] the band
Played it.
I mean they they they spat it [D] out.
It meant something the [G] way they did it
It's what you dream about as a record producer to get a band in the studio that
[C] That just sets up the gear and plays the song and you don't spend months and months trying to create something
It's there.
It's you just turn on the [G] machine and there _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] When we got our record deal and the record was made
Everybody knew I mean everybody from the start just knew Sharon was the song but there were some
You know second guessers at the record company were saying well, you know hard rock and the radio right now and
_ They actually kind of did a little dance about maybe Shrona not being the first release
Which was absurd and we all knew it so instead of saying you don't know what you're talking about
we just kind of held our tongue and
Because the song did its work for it self, you know
They didn't release the single until two weeks after the album had been released
But the day the album was released
to radio
my Sharona became
The most added record as an album cut in the world
It went from from nobody ever having heard it to being in heavy rotation in one day
It was a phenomenon.
I
Really think the song happened so fast that the average everything was behind
This is truly to me one of the few examples of of an album and a single
Surpassing any advertising it just happened so fast
Capital had no clue.
They probably think they had to work it for six months, you know, it just exploded literally exploded
It was quite exciting.
It just jumped out of the record promoters hands, you know
They they basically didn't have to do their work.
They said listen to this and the guy listened took it and put it on the radio
Well once America started happening, I mean I know in Germany were France we were number one
Japan we did very well.
We had it was a hit in Manila.
I know in Holland in Amsterdam
It did very well in Australia.
We were number one, New Zealand.
We would get gold singles from Guatemala
Israel the Philippines I got a silver single from the Philippines
Australia we landed in Australia.
They said well you just went gold and we left a week later
They said well you just went platinum
_ It was on every single
Minute, no matter where I went the minute it was on the airplanes
Then I get off an airplane I get in a limousine [B] or a cab.
It was in the limousine or cab
I get to the hotel it was in the hotel
We would go [E] on vacation [G] the top 40 band who was playing in the lobby or in the piano bar played my Shona
You couldn't escape it at one time.
I would turn it off
Sometimes I even think that they might have made it music and dentists officer in the grocery stores without the words _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] Our sensibilities were very much like punk and new wave bands because we believed in stripped-down rock and roll straightforward
but at the same time we had
If I [N] may say a little more craft than most of them did we played our instruments better and we had more of a songwriting background and
So I think we just came along at a time
where people were really responding [C] to
Straightforward gut-wrenching rock and roll and weren't getting any of it on most of the radio [G] stations
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_ _ _ [F] It did a lot for the band he gave us an identity people knew who we were it
Unfortunately gave us that thing of okay guys.
I'm when we did our second album.
Well.
We don't hear another my Sharona
When you're gonna do a month another my Sharona well _
_ That's that's [Gb] what my Sharona was and even when we did the third album even when we did
Subsequently after that in the back of people's minds.
They [D] always want that
[A] [Gb] New my Sharona, whatever that thing is and unfortunately for me anyway.
It's been a little bit of a
kind of [A] hidden pressure
To outdo that song and a lot of people measure us by that standard which is very very hard to to really
You know to get through to people
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[G] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [E] If you didn't come up with another my Sharona
_ It was a failure it was too bad and and you're not gonna come up with another my [N] Sharona
It's just you know it's not gonna happen
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We were number one all over the world we had in the palm of our hands and there were certain elements that
Brought it down just to be honest with you
I think I could chalk it down to [Abm] drugs
And I can chalk [G] it down to people who weren't experienced enough to have been ready for that
kind of overwhelming success
You know I can honestly say without any doubt that I was ready at that point with all that I'd done
I was prepared for that kind of success some of us weren't
And I want to point fingers, but
The best times were before we