My Girl

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Sheet music for tenor saxophone for The Temptations' song "My Girl," printed in black ink on one sheet of off-white paper folded to form four pages. Above the printed music on the first page is the text [TENOR SAX] at top left, [THE TEMPTATIONS] at top right and [MY GIRL] at center. There are eight music staffs with musical notes and symbols along with handwritten notes in blue ink, red ink, and graphite in several areas. One of the notes on the top staff reads [I’ve / got”. There is text at the bottom center of the sheet, below the staffs, which reads [Copied by Abd Essalam]. The interior pages are blank and the printed music continues on the back page which has a black number “-2-“ at the top. There are five more black music staffs with music notes and symbols as well as a smaller sixth staff.

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