| Touch Me There | ||||
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| Studio album by Shankar | ||||
| Released | September 24, 1979 August 18, 1992 (reissue) |
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| Recorded | Advision Studios[1] | |||
| Genre | Jazz, progressive rock, art rock, fusion | |||
| Length | 36:01 | |||
| Label | Zappa Records Barking Pumpkin Records |
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| Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
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Touch Me There is a 1979 album by L. Shankar (credited as "Shankar"). Shankar performed acoustic and 5-string Barcus Berry electric violin, string orchestra, and provided vocals on the track "Knee Deep in Heaters." The album was produced by Frank Zappa who also served as the album's lyricist and who co-wrote, with Shankar, the music for the tracks "Dead Girls of London" and "No More Mr. Nice Girl." Shankar composed all the other music for the album, and further served as an arranger and orchestrator on the record.
The song "Dead Girls of London" was released as a 12" maxi single on September 24, 1979.
In the final version of "Dead Girls Of London", the lyrics are sung by Zappa and collaborator Ike Willis. Vicky Blumenthal provides the chorus on "Dead Girls Of London," "Knee-Deep In Heaters," and "No More Mr. Nice Girl," while Jenny Lautrec sings the lyrics to the album's title track, "Touch Me There," and Shankar himself sings the lyrics to the album's final track, "Knee-Deep In Heaters."
The lyrics for the album's opening track, "Dead Girls Of London" were originally supposed to be sung by Van Morrison, but since Morrison was signed to the Warner Bros. Records record label who Zappa was in a legal dispute with at the time, Zappa was unable to release the song on his label with Morrison's vocals, and so they were re-recorded. This early version was heavily bootlegged before its official release on iTunes as "Dead Girls Of London (vm)" on December 21, 2011.
The album was reissued on CD by Barking Pumpkin Records in 1992.
Contents |
(Zappa Records, 1979)
Side One:
Side Two:
(Barking Pumpkin Records, 1992)