When She Was My Girl

"When She Was My Girl"
Single by Four Tops
from the album Tonight!
B-side	"Something to Remember"
Released	August 1981
Genre	R&B, soul
Length	3:25
Label	Casablanca
Songwriter(s)	Larry Gottlieb, Marc Blatte
Four Tops singles chronology

"When She Was My Girl" is a 1981 single released by American vocal group the Four Tops. The song, their first release off Casablanca Records, helped to return the former signature Motown act to the American pop Top 40 charts, peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 10 on the Cashbox chart, and reaching number one on the R&B charts.[1]

Internationally, it reached number nine in Canada, number six in New Zealand, and also became their first top 10 hit in the UK in nine years, reaching number three. Their top 40 showing made the group one of the few acts to have top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in three consecutive decades.

"When She Was My Girl" was a Grammy nominee for best R&B song.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[2]	3
Canadian RPM Top Singles	9
Ireland [3]	7
New Zealand[4]	6
UK	3
US Billboard Hot 100	11
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[5]	9
US Cashbox Top 100	10
US Billboard R&B[6]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1981)	Rank
UK[7]	59
US American Top 40[8]	88
US Cash Box [9]	77

Credits

Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs
Background vocals by Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir and Lawrence Payton

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 212.
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=6127&
The Irish Charts, November 8, 1981
"NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1982-01-10. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 91.
Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research.
"Chartfile Top 100" Record Mirror 26 December 1981: 27
"American Top 40 Year-End Survey 1972". Lionking.org. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1981

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 212.

[2] ttp://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=6127&

[3] The Irish Charts, November 8, 1981

[4] "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1982-01-10. Retrieved 2016-10-25.

[5] Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 91.

[6] Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research.

[7] "Chartfile Top 100" Record Mirror 26 December 1981: 27

[8] "American Top 40 Year-End Survey 1972". Lionking.org. Retrieved 2016-10-25.

[9] Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1981

Four Tops
Abdul "Duke" Fakir Ronnie McNeir Roquel Payton Harold Bonhart Levi Stubbs Renaldo "Obie" Benson Lawrence Payton Theo Peoples
Studio albums	Four Tops Four Tops Second Album On Top Reach Out Yesterday's Dreams The Four Tops Now! Soul Spin Still Waters Run Deep Changing Times Nature Planned It Keeper of the Castle Main Street People Meeting of the Minds Night Lights Harmony Catfish The Show Must Go On At the Top Tonight! One More Mountain Back Where I Belong Magic Hot Nights Indestructible Christmas Here with You
Albums with The Supremes	The Magnificent 7 The Return of the Magnificent Seven Dynamite
Compilations	The Four Tops Greatest Hits The Ultimate Collection
Singles	"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" "It's the Same Old Song" "Reach Out I'll Be There" "Standing in the Shadows of Love" "Bernadette" "Walk Away Renée" "If I Were a Carpenter" "It's All in the Game" "Still Water (Love)" "A Simple Game" "Keeper of the Castle" "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" "When She Was My Girl" "Loco in Acapulco"
Related topics	Discography Holland–Dozier–Holland The Supremes
Book:Four Tops

Four Tops singles discography
1960s	1964 "Baby I Need Your Loving" "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" 1965 "Ask the Lonely" "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" "It's the Same Old Song" "Something About You" 1966 "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" "Reach Out I'll Be There" "Standing in the Shadows of Love" 1967 "Bernadette" "7-Rooms of Gloom" / "I'll Turn to Stone" "You Keep Running Away" 1968 "Walk Away Renée" "If I Were a Carpenter" "Yesterday's Dreams" "I'm in a Different World" 1969 "What Is a Man" "Do What You Gotta Do" "Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me"
1970s	1970 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (re-issue) "It's All in the Game" "Still Water (Love)" "River Deep – Mountain High" (with The Supremes) 1971 "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" "You Gotta Have Love in Your Heart" (with The Supremes) "In These Changing Times" "MacArthur Park (Part II)" 1972 "A Simple Game" "Bernadette" (re-issue) "Walk with Me, Talk with Me, Darling" "(It's the Way) Nature Planned It" "Keeper of the Castle" 1973 "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" "Are You Man Enough" "Sweet Understanding Love" 1974 "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind" "One Chain Don't Make No Prison" "Midnight Flower" 1975 "Seven Lonely Nights" "We All Gotta Stick Together" 1976 "Catfish" "I'm Glad You Walked into My Life"
1980s	1981 "When She Was My Girl" "Don't Walk Away" 1982 "Let Me Set You Free" "Back to School Again" "Sad Hearts" "Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over" 1983 "I Believe in You and Me" "I Just Can't Walk Away" 1985 "Sexy Ways" 1988 "Reach Out I'll Be There" (re-issue) "If Ever a Love There Was" (with Aretha Franklin) "Indestructible" "Loco in Acapulco"
Book:Four Tops