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"She's My Girl"
Single by The Turtles
B-side"Chicken Little Was Right"
ReleasedOctober 1967
GenrePsychedelic[1]
Length2:37
LabelWhite Whale
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Joe Wissert
The Turtles singles chronology
"You Know What I Mean"
(1967) 		"She's My Girl"
(1967) 		"Sound Asleep"
(1968)

"She's My Girl" is a 1967 song and single from the Turtles. It was released on the White Whale record label and reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the same year.[2] It was later released as a bonus track on the album, Happy Together by Sundazed Records in 1994.

Composition and themes

"She's My Girl" is a

3
4 time.[3]

White Whale Records worked with a filming company headed by John Urie, who agreed to produce a

16mm film for the song featuring the band. Filming lasted three days.[4]

Reception

At the time of its release in 1967, some radio stations objected to themes expressed in the song and banned the song from their playlists and refused to play it; lead singer Howard Kaylan surmised this was because of the song's references to

Ed Sullivan Show.[6]

In reviewing the Turtles' legacy in 2016, Steve Horowitz wrote that among a few other hits from the group, the song "still holds up today" and is regularly played on radio stations featuring music from the 1960s and in films depicting the decade.[7] Kaylan has remarked that the piece is one of the band's best songs, but less appreciated.[8] He noted that had the song been released before an earlier hit, "You Know What I Mean", it would have been more publicly successful.[8]

Credits

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1480342934
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  2. ISBN 1135949506
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  3. ^ a b Pareles, Jon (1 January 1994). "Review/Pop; The Turtles' Quirky Spirit Survives". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  4. ^ Tiegel, Eliot (18 November 1967). "Urie Pop Ad TV Image Maker". Billboard. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. ^ "The Turtles - Chart history (Billboard)". Billboard. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  6. ISBN 0786421983
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  7. ^ Horowitz, Steve (13 September 2016). "The Turtles: All the Singles". PopMatters. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  8. ^ a b Sharp, Ken (4 June 2013). "Turtle Talk with Howard Kaylan (Interview) |". Rock Cellar Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
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