Talk:My Girl (The Temptations song)

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Would someone with more technical ability than I have please put the "My Girl" sound clip in a format that most people can easily use (RealPlayer or Windows Media). Thank you. Bob em 09:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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"My Girl" maybe in the original version of The Temptations is used in Stephen Frears' movie "Sammy and Rosie get laid" (1987) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.54.178.250 (talk) 22:09, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Covers
Shouldn't the Mamas and the Papas version be mentioned here? Jan S. (talk) 09:22, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

I added it but reverted my change citing that it was not significant enough. I find that very strange. The album on which it appears "... debuted on Billboard's Top LPs chart on March 18, 1967[1] and reached its peak position of #2 just three weeks later.[2] It spent a total of 55 weeks on the Top LPs chart.[3]". The Mamas and the papas is a hall of fame inducted group. This track is probably on all "greatest" hits releases too and have thus sold millions of copies. I fail to see how that is not significant enough.

Jan S. (talk) 09:29, 17 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Does it pass WP: SONGCOVER?--Egghead06 (talk) 11:48, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not involved in wikipedia enough to really know how those subjective standards are applied. But it is certainly a well-known version and mentioned in books etc:
 * https://timscoverstory.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/my-girl-the-temptations-the-mamas-and-the-papas-otis-redding/
 * https://books.google.se/books?id=Iy0wEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT302&dq=mamas+papas+%22my+girl%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy8NL2mrX7AhWpgP0HHTSxAjE4ChDoAXoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=mamas%20papas%20%22my%20girl%22&f=false
 * https://books.google.se/books?id=w7ggEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA61&dq=mamas+papas+%22my+girl%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo466Im7X7AhUQg_0HHVF_C6k4FBDoAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=mamas%20papas%20%22my%20girl%22&f=false
 * https://books.google.se/books?id=Wp-Xc4lMnRUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:YQQwyye3BMAC&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22my%20girl%22&f=false
 * I would be happy to know more about those rules in practice. I see many pages where the list of covers seem more completist than very selective. It would appear sensible to me to include versions that have been in such wide circulation. It seems there is also a cover by the rolling stones.
 * Jan S. (talk) 12:44, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This is not considered enough?
 * Jan S. (talk) 16:36, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Requested Move

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved   Calidum  16:23, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

– This song is a huge deal: it has become one of the only few songs of the 60s to get covered by several artists. I seriously doubt anyone outside of Asia will be even vaguely familiar with the Kim Hyung-jun EP. The EP does not even have even a fraction of the notability of this song and the same can also be said about the other topics on the disambiguation page which do or don't have articles - and to be perfectly honest, I am very doubtful that any of them will ever be anywhere near as notable as this song. All these reasons explain why this song deserves to be the primary topic. Neel.arunabh (talk) 12:07, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * My Girl (The Temptations song) → My Girl
 * My Girl → My Girl (disambiguation)


 * Oppose: If anything should be the primary topic, it should be the 1991 film, which has about 7 times the number of page views over the past year.— Shelf Skewed  Talk  14:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was surprised the nom didn't mention it. Gonnym (talk) 22:09, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * and I did mention "the other topics on the disambiguation page". That itself includes everything including the film. And the film itself is named in reference to this song. See the statement at My Girl (film), which says The film's title refers to the classic 1964 song of the same name by The Temptations, which is also featured in the film's end credits.. Neel.arunabh (talk) 05:28, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, WP:NOPRIMARY. See My Girl (film) and the dabpage at My Girl. 162 etc. (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose the film has 59,448 views compared with only 5,285 for the Temptations song, also the 2005 TV series has 6,568 and the 2020 TV series has 2,457[]. Also while the Temptations song is from 1964 the film is 1991 so its not like there's any recentism.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk )  10:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per ShelfSkewed, 162 etc. and Crouch, Swale. There are 25 entries listed upon the My Girl disambiguation page, with the notability of The Temptations song unable to reach a position of such height as to dwarf the combined renown of the other 24 entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose, speedy close per WP:SNOW |My_Girl_(2005_TV_series)|My_Girl_(The_Temptations_song)|My_Girl_(Madness_song) please look at this and make no further move requests till you've learned the ropes here, Merry Christmas! In ictu oculi (talk) 12:48, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to let you know that I removed your message from my talk page and I have pinged myself here instead. Also please remember that you must sign in everywhere with your username and talk page. Just signing with the time and date is not enough. Neel.arunabh (talk) 13:55, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Free image
I noticed that User:George Ho has been using"free images" in place of the original images. I don't see why the same can't be done in this article.2601:153:801:1C70:4C4F:D555:E0D6:484A (talk) 20:31, 2 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Found and then uploaded a free image to use. George Ho (talk) 22:31, 2 February 2023 (UTC)