16
16
0
"On December 13, 1952, born on this day, Berton Averre, lead guitarist with the Los Angeles rock band The Knack who scored the 1979 US No.1 single 'My Sharona'. Their album Get the Knack became 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 album chart"
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen TSgt David L. SPC Woody Bullard Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SFC Shirley Whitfield PVT Mark Zehner SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan LTC Greg Henning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC Douglas Bolton Alan K.. CPL Dave Hoover. Sgt Randy Wilber
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen TSgt David L. SPC Woody Bullard Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SFC Shirley Whitfield PVT Mark Zehner SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan LTC Greg Henning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC Douglas Bolton Alan K.. CPL Dave Hoover. Sgt Randy Wilber
Live Music
Records
Classic Rock
Rock Music
Musician
Posted 6 y ago
Responses: 7
5
5
0
5
5
0
4
4
0
Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the music video The Knack performing "My Sharona" live from The Rock 'N' Roll Fun House in honor of the fact that lead guitarist Berton L. Averre was born on December 13, 1952.
Happy 66th birthday Berton L. Averre!
Drummer Bruce Gary died on August 22, 2006
Lead singer Doug Fieger died on Valentine’s Day, 2010,
Background on Berton Averre from theknack.com/the-band/berton-averre/
Berton’s love affair with popular music began the day he was born. This is due, some say, to the fact that he was born with a transistor radio glued to his ear. It was to this lucky state of being in the 1970s that Berton ran smack into Doug Fieger and destiny.
Aside from being a very talented vocal arranger, his renown with a guitar has led him to tour with the likes of Robbie Krieger, Bette Midler, the Cowsills and Sarah Brightman.
In the 1990s he made a conscious attempt to break free into a new entertainment field. He started to write screenplays. He developed a screen play with his friend Tom Schulman, the Oscar winning screenwriter of “Dead Poet’s Society” and “What About Bob?”. Tom thought the screenplay was very good but Berton wanted to stretch his compositional skills even further. He also wanted to utilize his vast background of different styles of musical _expression. Musical Theatre seemed the perfect fit. This idea led him, in 1993, to the Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop in L.A. Where he states he learned “the ropes, the ABC’s, the nuts and bolts of writing for the musical theatre stage.”
Says Berton, “It’s a remarkably rewarding and remarkably difficult artistic discipline. When it pays off and a hall full of people laugh at the right time, and lustily cheer a song, the goosebumps I get as a writer rivals anything I have every gotten as a rock and roll performer.”
It’s at the Lehmen Workshop that he met up with Rob Muerer. He and Rob Meurer have written three musical comedies. The first show, “The Party’s Over,” received productions in Chicago and La Mirada. The second show, “Jungle Man! “, has had two hit productions at Stage One in Wichita, in 2000 and 2002. “Robin Hood: The Untold Story,” is the teams third effort and was the hit of the esteemed ASCAP/Disney Workshop in 2001. They are currently working on a fourth.
“Musical comedy,” states Berton, “is most likely what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.”
Berton hails from Van Nuys, California and was born December 13,1953."
"My Sharona" written by Berton L. Averre , Douglas Lars Fieger
Lyrics
"Hoo, my little pretty one, my pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Hoo, you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it comin' off of the line, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
Come a little closer, huh, a-will ya, huh?
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona
Keepin' it a mystery, it gets to me
Runnin' down the length of my thigh, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona (Yeah!)
When you gonna give to me, g-give to me
Is it just a matter of time, Sharona?
Is it d-d-destiny, d-destiny
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona?
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
Happy 66th birthday Berton L. Averre!
Drummer Bruce Gary died on August 22, 2006
Lead singer Doug Fieger died on Valentine’s Day, 2010,
Background on Berton Averre from theknack.com/the-band/berton-averre/
Berton’s love affair with popular music began the day he was born. This is due, some say, to the fact that he was born with a transistor radio glued to his ear. It was to this lucky state of being in the 1970s that Berton ran smack into Doug Fieger and destiny.
Aside from being a very talented vocal arranger, his renown with a guitar has led him to tour with the likes of Robbie Krieger, Bette Midler, the Cowsills and Sarah Brightman.
In the 1990s he made a conscious attempt to break free into a new entertainment field. He started to write screenplays. He developed a screen play with his friend Tom Schulman, the Oscar winning screenwriter of “Dead Poet’s Society” and “What About Bob?”. Tom thought the screenplay was very good but Berton wanted to stretch his compositional skills even further. He also wanted to utilize his vast background of different styles of musical _expression. Musical Theatre seemed the perfect fit. This idea led him, in 1993, to the Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop in L.A. Where he states he learned “the ropes, the ABC’s, the nuts and bolts of writing for the musical theatre stage.”
Says Berton, “It’s a remarkably rewarding and remarkably difficult artistic discipline. When it pays off and a hall full of people laugh at the right time, and lustily cheer a song, the goosebumps I get as a writer rivals anything I have every gotten as a rock and roll performer.”
It’s at the Lehmen Workshop that he met up with Rob Muerer. He and Rob Meurer have written three musical comedies. The first show, “The Party’s Over,” received productions in Chicago and La Mirada. The second show, “Jungle Man! “, has had two hit productions at Stage One in Wichita, in 2000 and 2002. “Robin Hood: The Untold Story,” is the teams third effort and was the hit of the esteemed ASCAP/Disney Workshop in 2001. They are currently working on a fourth.
“Musical comedy,” states Berton, “is most likely what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.”
Berton hails from Van Nuys, California and was born December 13,1953."
"My Sharona" written by Berton L. Averre , Douglas Lars Fieger
Lyrics
"Hoo, my little pretty one, my pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Hoo, you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it comin' off of the line, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
Come a little closer, huh, a-will ya, huh?
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona
Keepin' it a mystery, it gets to me
Runnin' down the length of my thigh, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona (Yeah!)
When you gonna give to me, g-give to me
Is it just a matter of time, Sharona?
Is it d-d-destiny, d-destiny
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona?
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
(4)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google