Touch (1987 album)

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Touch
Studio album by Laura Branigan
Released	July 1987
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	53:49
Label	Atlantic
Producer(s)	Matt Aitken, Albert Cabrera, David Kershenbaum, Tony Moran, Mike Stock, Waterman
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Laura Branigan chronology
Hold Me (1985)	Touch (1987)	Laura Branigan (1990)

Touch is the fifth album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music).

This album marked a change in Branigan's career. Under new management and using a different producer, the singer took a more active role in the studio, gaining hands-on experience which she would use to self-produce tracks on her subsequent albums. Touch also saw her return to dancefloors with the Stock/Aitken/Waterman-produced "Shattered Glass," one of her best Hi-NRG performances, and roar well into the Top Forty with a thunderous cover of Jennifer Rush's minor U.S. hit, "The Power of Love," which closed out the year as one of the Top Twenty bestselling singles of the Christmas season. The exquisite "Cry Wolf" was the album's third single, which inspired an evocative video that captures the emotive singer as she moves from subdued and measured verses through bitter choruses, ultimately ending in rage, as she laments a loved one's self destruction but vows not to let it destroy her. The album's most organic production, and a powerful, straightforward performance by Branigan, it did not capture attention at pop radio but was a top 30 AC hit.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "Over Love" (Marlette, Shifrin) – 3:49
2. "Shadow of Love" (Marlette, Shifrin) – 5:05
3. "Angels Calling" (Mullaney, Stone) – 3:47
4. "Meaning of the Word" (Freeland, Palombi) – 5:41
5. "Power of Love" (Applegate, Derouge, Mende, Rush) – 5:26
6. "Shattered Glass" (Coe, Mitchell) – 3:41
7. "Whatever I Do" (Stock, Aitken) – 4:01
8. "Spirit of Love" (Nowels, Shipley, Steinberg) – 4:11
9. "The Name Game" (Chase, Ellis) – 4:50
10. "Touch" (Marlette, Shifrin) – 4:06
11. "Cry Wolf" (Johnstone) – 4:49
12. "Statue in the Rain" (Palombi, Garey) – 4:17

[edit] Personnel

• Laura Branigan - vocals, background vocals
• Matt Aitken - guitar, keyboards
• Donna Delory - background vocals
• Coral Gordon - background vocals
• Dennis Henson - background vocals
• Michael Landau - guitar
• Mark Leggett - guitar, keyboards
• Dee Lewis - background vocals
• A. Linn - drums
• Jeff Lorber - keyboards
• Bob Marlette - guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals
• John Nelson - guitar
• John O'Hara - keyboards
• Rick Palombi - drums, keyboards, background vocals
• Kim Scharnberg - strings
• Sue Shifrin - background vocals
• Mike Stock - keyboards, background vocals
• Carlos Vega - drums
• Monalisa Young - background vocals

[edit] Production

• Producers: Matt Aitken, Albert Cabrera, David Kershenbaum, Tony Moran, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman
• Engineers: John Guess, David J. Holman, Cliff Jones, Ray Leonard, Mark McGuire
• Mixing: Albert Cabrera, Peter Hammond, David J. Holman, Tony Moran
• Mastering: Bob Ludwig
• Programming: Matt Aitken, David J. Holman, Jeff Lorber, Bob Marlette, Rick Palombi, Mike Stock, Andrew Thomas
• Drum programming: Jeff Lorber, Bob Marlette
• Arranger: Mark Leggett, Jeff Lorber, Bob Marlette, Rick Palombi
• Design: Janis Wilkins
• Art Direction: Janis Wilkins
• Photography: Victoria Pearson
• Hair Stylist: Hugh Ragan

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1987	The Billboard 200	87

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1987	"Shattered Glass"	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	13
1987	"Shattered Glass"	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	15
1987	"Shattered Glass"	Adult Contemporary	27
1987	"Shattered Glass"	The Billboard Hot 100	48
1987-88	"Power Of Love"	Adult Contemporary	19
1987-88	"Power of Love"	The Billboard Hot 100	26
1988	"Cry Wolf"	Adult Contemporary	XX|-