Touch Me (The Doors song)
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| "Touch Me" | ||
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| Single by The Doors | ||
| from the album The Soft Parade | ||
| B-side(s) | "Wild Child" | |
| Released | 1968 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 3:11 | |
| Label | Elektra | |
| Writer(s) | Robby Krieger | |
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| The Doors singles chronology | ||
| Hello, I Love You (1968) |
Touch Me (1968) |
Wishful Sinful (1969) |
"Touch Me" is a song by The Doors from their album The Soft Parade. Written by Robby Krieger, it is notable for its extensive usage of brass and string instruments to accent Jim Morrison's vocals (including a powerful solo by featured saxophonist Curtis Amy), and was one of the most popular Doors songs ever released. It was released as a single in December 1968.
One of the most famous television appearances of the Doors is of the group performing "Touch Me" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour along with the single's b-side, Wild Child.
Ian Astbury covered the song for the Doors tribute album, Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors.
In Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic of Jim Morrison The Doors Jim Morrison is portrayed as having modified the lyrics at a concert whilst under the influence of alcohol to make a song about oral sex.
It was also hummed in School of Rock, by Jack Black, when he was teaching Lawrence what to play on the keyboard. It is on the School of Rock soundtrack.
At the end of the song, Morrison can be heard saying, "Stronger than dirt," which was the slogan of the Ajax household cleaning company, supposedly because the music of "Touch Me" resembled that of an Ajax commercial and as a mocking criticism of his band's selling out to Buick by letting "Light My Fire" appear in one of its commercials.
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