My Girl (The Temptations song)

"My Girl"
Side A of the German single
Single by the Temptations
from the album The Temptations Sing Smokey
B-side"(Talking 'Bout) Nobody But My Baby"
ReleasedDecember 21, 1964 (1964-12-21)
RecordedSeptember 25, November 10 & 17, 1964
StudioHitsville USA (Detroit, Michigan)
Genre
Length2:45
LabelGordy
Songwriters
Producers
  • Robinson
  • White
The Temptations singles chronology
"Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)"
(1964)
"My Girl"
(1964)
"It's Growing"
(1965)

"My Girl" is a song recorded by American vocal group the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) record label in 1964. Written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, it became the Temptations' first US number-one single, and is considered their signature song. Robinson's inspiration for writing "My Girl" was his wife, Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson. The song was included on the Temptations 1965 album The Temptations Sing Smokey. In 2017, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".