Touch Me (Rui Da Silva song)

"Touch Me"
Single by Rui da Silva & Cass Fox
Released 2001
Format 12-inch single
CD single
Genre House
Length 8:36 (original mix)
3:40 (radio edit)
Label Kismet Records/64 Records
Producer Rui Da Silva
Rui da Silva singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2000)		 "Feel the Love"
(2002)
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2000)		 "Out of My Reach"
(2005)

"Touch Me" is a house song by Portuguese producer Rui da Silva featuring vocals written and performed by British singer Cassandra Fox.

"Touch Me" is arguably Rui da Silva's most popular song, spending one week at the number-one spot on the UK chart, the first song by a Portuguese musician to do so, lasting a total of 14 weeks on the chart alone and selling over 300,000 copies. The soulful vocal, trance chords, and deep house groove of "Touch Me" earned Rui an award for Best Single in the Muzik Magazine Dance Awards 2001, as well as a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the Dance Star Awards.

"Touch Me" originally contained a sample of the Spandau Ballet song, "Chant No. 1". Because the sample was used without permission Rui Da Silva was sued by record company BMG and had to give share of the song away.

Vocalist Cassandra Fox co-wrote the song (Cass writing the lyrics, Silva writing the backing track) hanging out at Silva's studio after the two met when he saw her performing in the West End. Cassandra, however, felt dance music wasn't what she wanted to do, and shortly after the success of "Touch Me", parted ways with Silva.

In 2011 the song was sampled on Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx's "Ur Soul And Mine" from the album We're New Here.

Contents

Versions

  1. "Touch Me" (Original Mix)
  2. "Touch Me" (Saffron Mix)
  3. "Touch Me" (Radio Edit)
  4. "Touch Me" (Double 99 Club Mix)
  5. "Touch Me" (Double 99 Dub Mix)
  6. "Touch Me" (Peace Division Higher Mix)
  7. "Touch Me" (Peace Division Higher Dub)

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 29
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] 6
Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[3] 11
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] 12
France (SNEP)[5] 74
Germany (Media Control AG)[6] 56
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 1
Italy (FIMI)[8] 17
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] 20
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[10] 58
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[11] 85
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[12] 1
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[13] 7

Cassandra Fox's version

"Touch Me"
Single by Cass Fox
from the album Come Here
Released 30 October 2006
Format CD single, 12"
Genre Soul, R&B
Length 4:01
Label Island
Producer Rollo Armstrong
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Little Bird"
(2006)		 "Touch Me"
(2006)

Cassandra Fox released her own version in 2006, re-recording it with her own backing track for her album Come Here. Information of the re-release was posted on her personal web-site. "4 years after the track was originally number one, the track written and sung by Cass with Rui da Silva is being re-released on October 30th. Remixes come from X-Press 2, Tom Neville and Spencer & Hill and have already been getting plays on Radio 1 (Judge Jules) and Kiss FM." [14]

Track listing

CD single
  1. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Radio Edit)
  2. Touch Me (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep Vocal)
  3. Touch Me (Tom Neville Mix)
  4. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  5. Touch Me (Tom Elmhirst Radio Edit ) *Hidden Track
12"
  1. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  2. Touch Me (Tom Neville Mix)
  3. Touch Me (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep Vocal)
Download only (Via 7 Digital and iTunes)
  1. Touch me (Mike Koglin & Jono Grant Remix)

Notes

  1. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  2. ^ "Ultratop.be – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  3. ^ "Ultratop.be – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me" (in French). Ultratop 40. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  4. ^ "Finnishcharts.com – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me". Suomen virallinen lista. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  5. ^ "Lescharts.com – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me" (in French). Les classement single. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  6. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  7. ^ "Chart Track". Irish Singles Chart. Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  8. ^ "Italiancharts.com – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me". Top Digital Download. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  9. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 7, 2001" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Stichting Nederlandse Top 40. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  10. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me". Singles Top 60. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  11. ^ "Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me – swisscharts.com". Swiss Singles Chart. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  12. ^ "Archive Chart" UK Singles Chart. The Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  13. ^ "Rui Da Silva Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play for Rui Da Silva. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  14. ^ Cass Fox (2006). Cass Fox Online CassMusic.net (accessed 11th Sept 2006)

External links

Preceded by
"Can We Fix It?" by Bob the Builder		 UK Singles Chart number-one single (Rui da Silva version)
7 January 2001 - 14 January 2001		 Succeeded by
"Love Don't Cost a Thing" by Jennifer Lopez