My Girl

Composers: Smokey Robinson & Ronnie White       Original performers: The Temptations (1965)
First release: Flowers, June 1967
Recording date: May 1965 & August-September 1966
Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA; IBC Studios, London, England
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineers: Dave Hassinger & Glyn Johns
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Brian Jones
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Percussion: Mick Jagger
Strings & brass: The Mike Leander Orchestra
 

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I got the month of May

I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?

My girl, my girl
Talking about my girl
 
I've got so much honey, the bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song, baby, than the birds in the trees

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?

My girl, my girl
Talking about my girl

Oooh

Ah hey, hey, hey
Ah hey, hey, hey
 
I don't need no money or count my pay
I've got all the riches, baby, one man can take

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?

My girl, my girl
Talking about my girl

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
I've even got the month of May 

My girl, my girl
I'm talking about my girl


 

TrackTalk

We did the Temptations' My Girl. I don't mind admitting that it took me a while to twig exactly what I was supposed to do. The notes and musical content were straightforward enough, but it was just the timing which had me foxed for a while. It seemed as if I was playing at the wrong speed and on the wrong beat. As it happened, I was doing the right thing all along, but I had to wait until the playback to hear how well it was fitting in.

                                                            - Bill Wyman, 1965


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