I’m closing Week One of my “second hits by one-hit wonders” theme with the first American band on the list. Los Angeles pop band The Knack debuted in 1979 with Get the Knack, an album that went double platinum in the U.S. on the strength of lead single ‘My Sharona.’

That song spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it’s the first and likely only song most people associate with The Knack. But they did place four other songs on the Hot 100 over the next two years.

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