Chilliwack - My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) (RESTORED - SUPERSCALED TO 4K)

“My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)“ was 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 and in the United States, it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Guitarist Brian MacLeod invited singer Bill Henderson onto his boat to sail around the coast of British Columbia, fish, and write songs. MacLeod was playing some chord changes on a Fender Rhodes keyboard and singing the melody “down down down down down d-down“. He thought it was a bad idea, “like the Beach Boys, but with a lot of weird chord changes going on.“ Henderson saw potential, and decided the words were “Gone gone gone she’s been gone so long, she’s been gone gone gone so long.“ From there, MacLeod came up with chords for verses and chorus, and Henderson came up with the melody and made up a story around a girl being gone so long. The song was written in a day, the dem