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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories.

For a very brief period in 1979, the band The Neck looked like the future

of rock and roll. It was the summer of the infamous disco demolition night at Comiskey Park in Chicago,

and many old-school rock fans were ready to embrace a new band. Into this void, step the neck and their song, My Sharona.

Here's our own Greg Hangler with the story.

Even now, multiple decades after the biggest single of 1979,

Sharona Elprin can't escape it.

Almost any time someone hears my name, Miss Elprin says. They say, oh, like my

Sharona? And then they say, oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to say that. You probably hear that

all the time. They have no idea. She's not just a Sharona. She's the Sharona, the object of the knacks bopping 1979 hit

My Sharona.

The band's lead singer Doug Feiger wrote the song's lustful lyrics about her when she was 17 and he was 26.

Here's Doug Figer.

It is a song that has a life of its own.

It's not just a song.

It's a cultural icon, if you will.

The song became Billboard's number one single of 1979.

Here's the next bassist, Prescott Niles.

People do know the name of the band, but my experience is they go, yeah, you know, My Sharona.

Oh yeah, that's my favorite song and my kids and my wife.

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