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Get The Knack is the debut album by The Knack, released in June 1979. The album went platinum (one million units sold) in just two months and spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single from the album, “My Sharona”, was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and #1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Singles of 1979 year end chart. The LP also featured the second single “Good Girls Don’t” which peaked at #11 on The Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other cuts that received significant airplay on AOR radio were: “(She’s So) Selfish” and “Frustrated”. The album was recorded in two weeks at a cost of just $18,000 and became an instant success, thanks in part to an intense promotional campaign by Capitol Records. The Knack’s image was largely influenced... Read on...