My Girl

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Written by: Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
Produced by: Robinson, White
Released: Jan. '65 on Gordy
Charts: 13 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

The Temptations were sharing a bill with Robinson and his group the Miracles at Harlem's Apollo Theater when Robinson took time out to record the rhythm track for a song he had been working on. After the Temptations heard it, they begged Robinson to let them record the song rather than the Miracles, as he had originally planned. Robinson relented and chose the throaty tenor David Ruffin to sing lead on the track, the first time he had done so with the Tempts. The group rehearsed the song for a week at the Apollo, then recorded it back home in Detroit on December 21st, 1964.

Appears on: The Temptations Sing Smokey (Motown)

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