"My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" is a song that was performed by the Canadian group Chilliwack. Co-written by bandmembers Brian MacLeod and Bill Henderson, it was released on the band's 1981 album Wanna Be a Star.
In Canada, the song spent four weeks at number 3.[1] In the United States, it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]
In their native Canada, writers MacLeod and Henderson were nominated for the Juno Award for 1982 Composer of the Year,[3] as well as Single of the Year for "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone).".[4] In January 2019, the song became certified Platinum (in excess of 100,000 copies sold) as a single in Canada.[5]
On the April 23, 1982 episode of the sketch comedy TV series SCTV during the skit "Pre-Teen World Telethon,"[13] the fictional adolescent garage band The Recess Monkeys,[14] as performed by Stephan Seely (John Candy) on drums and backing vocals; Paul Rey (Eugene Levy) on guitar, backing vocals, and tambourine and Steve Applebaum (Rick Moranis) on guitar and lead vocals;[15] do a very amateurish cover of "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)."[16]
