"You've Got" the Touch

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“"You've Got" the Touch”
Single by Alabama
from the album The Touch
Released December 1986 (U.S.)
Format 7"
Recorded 1986
Genre Country
Length 4:15
Label RCA
Writer(s) John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson
Producer Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"Touch Me When We're Dancing"
(1986)
"'You've Got' the Touch"
(1987)
"Tar Top"
(1987)

"You've Got" the Touch is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1987, the song — a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style — became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in April 1987.

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 No. 7 that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face."

[edit] References

  • 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 0-82-307553-2)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
Preceded by
"Ocean Front Property"
by George Strait
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number one single by Alabama

April 11, 1987
Succeeded by
"Kids of the Baby Boom"
by Bellamy Brothers