Video Flashback

Chilliwack - My Girl [Gone, Gone, Gone] - 1981

Friends, this tune hit 11 year-old me like an avalanche.

I wasn’t playing an instrument at this point, but I heard enough elements here that I knew I wanted to buy this record.

Once I had the 45, I didn’t have to wait for the radio. I could listen to the harmonies, the snapping fingers, the bit where it modulates near the end, and of course a hot solo fro…