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The Temptations Celebrate 60 Years (and 1 Billion Streams) of ‘My Girl’: ‘A Group of Our Ilk Should Have Been Through a Long Time Ago’
Otis Williams, the last original member of the Temptations, discusses the 60th anniversary of 'My Girl," which also has surpassed 1 billion streams.
Other recent high-profile gigs included singing the National Anthem (no, they didn’t change it to “My Country”) for the New York Mets before Game 5 on the NCLS in October, because team superstar Francisco Lindor had spent the season bringing “My Girl” into the stadium every night as his walk-up music. After winding up Gayle King’s birthday surprise, Williams got on the phone with Variety to talk about the song’s 60-year life as a perennial favorite of boyfriends, husbands, doting dads and presidents. Along with the obviously wonderful vocals, there’s so much alchemy with the great instrumental parts by the Funk Brothers, with James Jamerson on bass and Robert White on guitar, contributing these incredible musical licks.
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