766 The Temptations “My Girl” 1964

Smokey Robinson: “I’ve had so many surprises in my career as a songwriter, but ‘My Girl’ is one of the biggest. It’s my international anthem. Whenever I perform, I typically do a short medley of Motown songs that I wrote for the Temptations. The last one is always ‘My Girl.’ I can be in a foreign country where people don’t speak English and the audience will start cheering before I even start singing ‘My Girl.’ They know what’s coming as soon as they hear the opening bass line” (Marc Myers, Anatomy of a Song, 2016). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Temptations “My Girl”