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"My Girl" climbed to the top of the U.S. pop charts on March 6, 1965, after its Christmas time 1964 release, making it the Temptations' first number 1 hit. The single was also the first number 1 hit on the reinstated Billboard R&B Singles chart, which had gone on a fifteen-month hiatus from 1963 to 1965. [ 14 ]
(1964) " Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) " is a 1964 hit single by The Temptations for the Gordy ( Motown ) label. It was the group's first A-side release to be produced by Norman Whitfield , who co-wrote the song with Edward Holland, Jr. of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team.
On Dec. 21, 1964, The Temptations released what is now considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever recorded. Smokey Robinson and Ronald White wrote and produced the classic Motown melody ...
It all goes back six decades to 1964, when Robinson hatched "My Girl" as a follow-up to his breakthrough hit for the Temptations, “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” while winking at “My Guy ...
Three Temptations songs, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" (1971), and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (1972), are included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Temptations were ranked No. 68 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2010.
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.…
David Ruffin (born Davis Eli Ruffin; [1] January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) was an American soul singer most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations (1964–1968) during the group's "Classic Five" period as it was later known. Ruffin was the lead voice on such famous songs as "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."
Released on Dec. 21, 1964, “My Girl” became the group's first No. 1 hit the following March and has been streamed 1 billion times on Spotify. The song's impact became clear to Williams during a 1965 concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater. “We went out on the stage and we did the show without ‘My Girl.’