Touch Me When We're Dancing
"Touch Me When We're Dancing" | |
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Single by Bama | |
from the album Touch Me When We're Dancing | |
B-side | "Turning The Tables" |
Released | 1979 |
Genre | Pop |
Length | 3:36 |
Label | Free Flight |
Songwriter(s) | Ken Bell Terry Skinner J. L. Wallace |
Producer(s) | Jim Vienneau |
"Touch Me When We're Dancing" is a song written by Terry Skinner, J. L. Wallace and Ken Bell. Skinner and Wallace headed the Muscle Shoals, Alabama session group Bama,[1] who first recorded this song and released it as a single in 1979 reaching number 42 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was later recorded by The Carpenters in 1981 for their Made in America album. In 1984, it was recorded by country music artists Mickey Gilley and Charly McClain for their 1984 duet album It Takes Believers and in 1986 by the country music group Alabama.
Bama version
The version by Bama was produced by Jim Vienneau and released on the Free Flight label. It received a positive review in Billboard which praised the "smooth production" and said that the song "allows the group to achieve a strong identity".[2]
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1979) | Peak position |
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US Cashbox[3] | 93 |
US Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100[4] | 109 |
US Billboard Hot 100[5] | 86 |
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[4] | 49 |
US Top 40 Singles[6] | 92 |
Carpenters' version
"Touch Me When We're Dancing" | ||||
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Touch Me When We're Dancing resembles the "Made in America" cover. | ||||
Single by Carpenters | ||||
from the album Made in America | ||||
B-side | "Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)" | |||
Released | June 19, 1981 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:19 | |||
Label | A&M 2344 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ken Bell, Terry Skinner and J. L. Wallace | |||
Producer(s) | Richard Carpenter | |||
Carpenters singles chronology | ||||
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The Carpenters' version of "Touch Me When We're Dancing" was released on their Made in America album in the summer of 1981. Placing at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was the last of their singles to reach the Top 40 after not having a song appear on that chart for over three years. It was also their fifteenth (and final) number-one song on the adult contemporary chart.[7] The B-side, "Because We Are in Love", was played at Karen Carpenter's wedding to Thomas Burris on August 31, 1980.
Music video
The video for "Touch Me When Were Dancing" can be found on The Carpenters video collection Gold. The video consists of Karen Carpenter singing and slowly dancing by her brother Richard Carpenter's piano. Footage of a couple dancing is superimposed onto Richard's black piano, as is a view from behind Richard of his hands as he plays. In the background are the guitar player and the drummer.
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1981) | Peak position |
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Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[8] | 4 |
US Cashbox[9] | 17 |
US Cashbox Radio Active Airplay Singles | 17 |
US Billboard Hot 100[10] | 16 |
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[11] | 1 |
New Zealand (RIANZ)[12] | 22 |
Australia (Kent Music Report)[13] | 78 |
Year-end charts
Chart (1981) | Position |
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US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[14] | 15 |
Credits and personnel
- Karen Carpenter – lead and backing vocals
- Richard Carpenter – backing vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano, piano, orchestration
- Joe Osborn – bass
- Tony Peluso – acoustic and electric guitars
- Tim May – acoustic & electric guitars
- Larrie Londin – drums
- Paulinho da Costa - wind chimes, cabasa, shaker, tambourine, cowbell
- Tom Scott – tenor saxophone
- Earl Dumler - oboe
- Carolyn Dennis – backing vocals
Alabama version
"Touch Me When We're Dancing" | ||||
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Single by Alabama | ||||
from the album The Touch | ||||
B-side | "Hanging Up My Travlin' Shoes" | |||
Released | September 12, 1986 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:43 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ken Bell, Terry Skinner and J. L. Wallace | |||
Producer(s) | Harold Shedd and Alabama | |||
Alabama singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Touch Me When We're Dancing" at CMT.com | ||||
The Alabama version was released in September 1986 as the first single from the album The Touch. It went on to become a number one hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart later that year, their 20th straight chart-topper in a string that dated back to 1980.[15]
Music video
A music video was made for the song, and was directed by Marc Ball.
Chart positions
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[16] | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
References
- ^ Kirby, Kip (September 29, 1979). "Welk Beefing Up Publishing Group". Billboard. Vol. 91, no. 39. p. 10.
- ^ "First Time Around". Billboard. July 28, 1979. p. 59.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2014). Cash Box Pop Hits 1952-1996. Sheridan Books, Inc. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-89820-209-0.
- ^ a b Tiegel, Eliot, ed. (September 22, 1979). "Bubbling Under the Hot 100 & Adult Contemporary" (PDF). Billboard. pp. 35, 38. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "Bama Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "US Top 40 Singles For The Week Ending October 6, 1979". Top 40 Weekly.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 48.
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. September 19, 1981. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2014). Cash Box Pop Hits 1952-1996. Sheridan Books, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-209-0.
- ^ "Carpenters Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Carpenters Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
- ^ "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART, 27 September 1981.
- ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Charts Book 1970—1992. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1981". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
- ^ "Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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