"You've Got" the Touch
"You've Got the Touch" | ||||
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Single by Alabama | ||||
from the album The Touch | ||||
B-side | "True, True Housewife" | |||
Released | December 1986 (U.S.) | |||
Recorded | 1986 | |||
Genre | Country rock, country pop | |||
Length | 4:15 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson | |||
Producer(s) | Harold Shedd and Alabama | |||
Alabama singles chronology | ||||
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"You've Got the Touch" is a song written by Lisa Palas, John Jarrard and Will Robinson, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. The song, a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style, was released in December 1986, as the second and final single from the album The Touch. "You've Got" the Touch was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in April 1987.[1]
The song was Alabama's 21st — and as it turned out, final consecutive — chart-topper in a string that dated from August 1980's "Tennessee River". The follow-up single, the semi-autobiographical "Tar Top," peaked at number seven that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face".
This song is unrelated to Stan Bush's song of a similar title from the 1986 Transformers movie.
Charts
Chart (1986-1987) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
References
Works cited
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music", HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
- Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits", Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-8230-7553-2)
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- "I Wanna Come Over"
- "My Home's in Alabama"
- "Tennessee River"
- "Why Lady Why"
- "Old Flame"
- "Feels So Right"
- "Love in the First Degree"
- "Mountain Music"
- "Take Me Down"
- "Close Enough to Perfect"
- "Dixieland Delight"
- "The Closer You Get"
- "Lady Down on Love"
- "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
- "When We Make Love"
- "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)"
- "(There's A) Fire in the Night"
- "There's No Way"
- "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')"
- "Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
- "Touch Me When We're Dancing"
- ""You've Got" the Touch"
- "Tar Top"
- "Face to Face"
- "Fallin' Again"
- "Song of the South"
- "If I Had You"
- "High Cotton"
- "Southern Star"
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