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My Girl

1979 · via Madness

Madness recorded “My Girl” in 1979. Madness wrote it with Mike Barson. This is the first recording of the song. Also recorded by Top of the Poppers (1980), Skanker (1998) and De Lyckliga Kompisarna (2004), among 39 recordings on file.

Madness – My Girl
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Madness put My Girl on record in 1979, and in 2009 Pet Shop Boys picked it up and recorded it themselves. Play them back to back and listen to how well the song holds up in a different set of clothes.

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Written by Madness and Mike Barson.

First recorded by Madness in 1979: this is the first recording.

Other recordings on file

39 recordings of “My Girl” on MusicBrainz in all.

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Madness wrote "My Girl" and cut it first. Which act, decades later, took the song into the studio for a version of their own?Pet Shop Boys
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