My Girl Has Gone My Girl Has Gone "My Girl Has Gone" is a 1965 R&B single recorded by The Miracles for Motown's Tamla label. Included on their 1965 album "Going to a Go-Go", "My Girl Has Gone" was the follow-up to the group's number 16 "Billboard" Hot 100 million-selling hit "The Tracks Of My Tears". Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin, the single was a Top 20 Pop hit, peaking at number 14 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States, and was also a Top 5 R&B hit, peaking at number three on "Billboard's"
My Guy song would wind up in the trash can anyway". When Wells recorded her vocal she sang over the song's outro with a huskiness evoking the line delivery of Mae West: Wells would recall: "I was only joking but the producers said 'Keep it going, keep it going'." "My Guy" became the biggest hit ever for Wells, Motown's first female star, and reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop singles chart on 16 May 1964. The song led the "Cashbox" magazine R&B chart for seven weeks. "My Guy" was also Wells' last hit single for Motown, except for duets