Story of a Song: "My Sharona"

By OAN Reporting Staff

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Even now, multiple decades after the biggest single of 1979, Sharona Alperin can’t escape it. “Almost daily, almost anytime someone hears my name,” Ms. Alperin says. “They say ‘Oh, like ‘My Sharona?’” They have no idea. She’s not just a Sharona. She’s the Sharona, the object of the Knack’s bopping 1979 hit “My Sharona.”

OAS Alexa Skill

 

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