Song Challenge Day 7: Song That Reminds Me of a Certain Event

When I was in 5th grade (at least I THINK it was 5th grade, but it may have been 4th), our choir teacher (again, I THINK it was choir, but maybe it was just music in general) decided we should have a lip-sync competition.  Now, I wasn't as popular then as I am today, which I know is hard to believe.  I was so un-popular that you would probably have categorized me as a 'loser'.  I really only remember my best friend from those years, who lived just up the street from me.  Oh, back to the story...

We were told to form teams.  Sadly, my best friend was already in another team, and without really having a lot of other friends, or any I guess, I was left to be in a group with other, ahem, 'losers'.  We were a sorry bunch of four, and somehow it was decided that I was the 'leader' of the group.  So I picked the song we were going to lip sync.  I should point out that at this stage in my life, all I really knew were cheesy educational songs, and oldies, as my mom loves oldies and that's pretty much all we listened to in the car.  So I decided to do "My Girl", by The Temptations.  I think this was around the time, or shortly after, the movie of the same title came out, which while I never saw it, may have had an impact, but who knows, and I digress.

So myself and my three other 'loser' teammates 'performed' (I really like using single quotes in this post, don't I?) our song, and it went as expected.  It wasn't just bad, it was horrendous.  Four guys, standing on a stage with less movement than four-hundred-year-old trees, lip-syncing about a girl when there was no girl present.  In hindsight, we could have done better, but that was then, and this is now, and I'm a way cooler person now, thanks to college (or maybe my senior year of high school, or some combination of the two).

Anyway, it if it wasn't painfully obvious, the song that reminds me of a certain event is "My Girl", by the Temptations.  Plus, in the not-so-distant past, I was within spitting distance of one of the Temptations, which is its own event.  Double-whammy for this song!