Knack - Get the Knack (1979) Vinyl LP and similar items

Catalog Number: SO-11948 Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges and corners and light scuffing (front/back); some surface impressions on back and a few spots near front top right where glossy finish has come off. Inner-sleeve is original (black with Capitol Records and band logo); two seams partially split. Spine is easy to read with mild wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Let Me Out Your Number Or Your Name Oh Tara (She's So) Selfish Maybe Tonight Good Girls Don't My Sharona Heartbeat Siamese Twins (The Monkey And Me) Lucinda That's What The Little Girls Do Frustrated About The Record: Get the Knack, the debut album by the Knack, peaked at No. 1 on Billbord 200. At the time, the album was one of the most successful debuts in history, selling over one million copies in less than two months and spending five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single from the album, My Sharona, was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and No. 1 on Billboard's Top Pop Singles of 1979 year end chart. The follow-up single, Good Girls Don't, followed My Sharona to No. 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart, and reached No. 11 in the U.S. The album was recorded in just two weeks at a cost of only $18,000, an extremely quick and inexpensive recording at a time when many established artists were spending months and several hundred thousand dollars to record an album. The album was produced by Mike Chapman, who had written hits for Sweet in the early 1970s and most recently produced Blondie's breakout album Parallel Lines. Get the Knack was released in June 1979 and became an immediate success, thanks in part to an intense promotional campaign by Capitol Records. The Knack's image was largely influenced by the Beatles. The album cover imitates their first Capitol LP Meet the Beatles!, and the back cover photo depicts a scene from the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. To complete the Beatle imagery, the 1960s Capitol rainbow label adorned the LP, a detail the band had written into its contract. The album went Gold in just 13 days, becoming Capitol Records' fastest selling debut LP since Meet the Beatles in 1964. By August, the album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for five weeks, and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for one million copies sold.