"2229441" . "Songs written by Ronald White" . "Songs written by Smokey Robinson" . "2006-08-14"^^ . "My Girl" . "83279bbf-3000-40c7-b953-3fb0e5f818db" . "0.0630722"^^ . . "Motown" . "1964-12-21"^^ . "1965 singles" . "204000.0"^^ . . "0"^^ . "--09-25" . "298611"^^ . "539" . "Single (music)" . . "USMC16746385" . "TRRUXDI128E0791925" . "eng" . . "Gordy Records singles" . "Smokey Robinson" . "1964 singles" . "Atco Records singles" . "Ronald White" . . "Michael Jackson songs" . "My Girl" . . . "1964 songs" . "0.272281"^^ . "5714dee825ac0d8aee546c6f" . "english" . "Major Lance songs" . "Song recordings produced by Smokey Robinson" . "Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles" . . "-11.1"^^ . "Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles" . "The Temptations songs" . . "true"^^ . "Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee: 1965" . "true"^^ . "Songs from films" . "107.0"^^ . "false"^^ . "6"^^ . "Otis Redding songs" . . . "Motown singles" . "%22My Girl%22 is a 1964 standard recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label which became a number one hit in 1965. Written and produced by The Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, the song became the Temptations' first U.S. number-one single, and is today their signature song. Robinson's inspiration for writing this song was his wife, Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson. The song was featured on the Temptations album The Temptations Sing Smokey.Musically, the song is notable because the six ascending guitar notes in the opening riff over the C chord are a perfect example of a C major pentatonic scale, played exactly from octave to octave. Similarly, the analogous riff in the song that is played over the F chord is a perfect example of an F major pentatonic scale, also with notes ascending from octave to octave." . .