Saturday 9: My Sharona

Saturday 9: My Sharona (1979)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) The Knack's lead singer Doug Fieger wrote this song for his girlfriend, Sharona Alperin. That's Sharona on the record sleeve shown here. Who took the most recent photo of you?  That would be the administrative assistant of the Blind Association's director. We had the big annual picnic for the clients today and she took a picture of me with a couple of them.

2) Today Sharona Alperin is a realtor in Southern California. (The photo on her website is more demure than the record sleeve.) She specializes in high-end properties. Have you ever attended an open house, not because you were interested in purchasing the property but because you were curious about the inside?  Yes, I loved doing that years ago when we lived in Florida. At that time there were always lots of open houses on the weekends and we'd just see the signs for one and stop and check it out.

3) Doug Fieger's brother is Geoffrey Fieger, a prominent attorney in Detroit. Have you ever consulted a lawyer?  Yes, a few times.

 

4) The Knack's record producer was Jimmy Miller, who also worked with The Rolling Stones. What's your favorite Rolling Stones song?  I guess Start Me Up because that's the song that introduced me to them, but once I started listening to them I liked most of what I heard.

 

5) In 1994, more than a decade after its initial release, "My Sharona" became popular with a new audience because it was included on the soundtrack of the movie Reality Bites. What's the most recent movie you watched?  My husband watched the stupid comedy We Are the Millers tonight (Friday) and though I loathe it, it was on so I couldn't help but hear it.

6) President George W. Bush said he loved listening to "My Sharona" on his headphones while riding his bike. Do you often have music on when you exercise?  Always.

 
7) In 1979, when this song was popular, the CBS TV show Alice was a hit. It was about a widowed mom who made ends meet working in a diner. Have you ever worked at a restaurant?  No. I volunteered once at the hospital's cafe and that killed any thoughts I may have ever had of doing so. People can be nasty and rude when it comes to their food.

 

8) Also in 1979, the Voyager spacecraft sent back photos of Jupiter and its rings. Without looking it up, can you name all the planets in our solar system?  Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and then there is the possibility of another planet beyond Neptune and while they changed Pluto's designation to that of a "dwarf planet" which is not a real planet...I heard a little while back that maybe they've changed their minds about that again. (No, I didn't look that up. I studied astronomy a good bit back in the day and considered it as a college major.)

9) Random question: If you could erase your most painful day from your memory, would you do it?  I'd be tempted if I knew it would change certain things that came after it, but as a person of faith I believe in God's sovereignty and that all things happen because He either put it in motion or allowed it to try and help me grow to be a better person. Who am I to say God's way is wrong?