The Touch (album)
Encyclopedia
The Touch is the seventh studio album from country music
band Alabama
. It was released in 1986.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
band Alabama
Alabama (band)
Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...
. It was released in 1986.
Track listing
- "You've Got the TouchYou've Got the Touch"You've Got the Touch" is a song by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1987, the song — a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style — became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in April 1987....
" (Will Robinson, John Jarrard, Lisa Palas) - 4:15 - "Vacation" (Randy OwenRandy OwenRandy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...
) - 5:33 - "True, True Housewife" (Owen) - 3:53
- "Is This How Love Begins" (Bob Corbin) - 2:39
- "Cruisin'" (Vern Dant, Jeff Cook, Ted Hewitt) - 3:43
- "Touch Me When We're DancingTouch Me When We're Dancing"Touch Me When We're Dancing" is a song written by Terry Skinner, J. L. Wallace and Ken Bell. Skinner and Wallace headed the Muscle Shoals, Alabama session group Bama, who first recorded this song and released it as a single in 1979 reaching the Billboard Easy Listening chart at #42 and ranking on...
" (Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace, Ken Bell) - 3:41 - "Let's Hear It For The Girl" (S. Alan Taylor) - 3:59
- "It's All Comin' Back To Me Now" (Dave LogginsDave LogginsDavid Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame...
) - 4:27 - "I Taught Her Everything She Knows" (Teddy Gentry, Greg Fowler, Jarrard, Walt AldridgeWalt AldridgeWalt Aldridge is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter...
) - 4:36 - "Pony Express" (Gentry, Ken Lambert, Buddy CannonBuddy CannonBuddy Cannon is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Active since the late 1970s, he is known primarily for his work as Kenny Chesney's record producer, for which he won the Academy of Country Music's Producer of the Year award in 2006.Along with Bill Anderson and Jamey...
, Dean DillonDean DillonDean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Although he has not charted since 1993, Dillon has continued to write several hit songs for other artists, most...
) - 7:53
Alabama
- Jeff CookJeff Cook (musician)Jeffery A. "Jeff" Cook is an American musician who is best known as one of the founding members of the country music group Alabama....
- electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocals, lead vocals on "Cruisin'" - Teddy Gentry - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals, lead vocals on "Pony Express" - Mark Herndon - drums, vocals
- Randy OwenRandy OwenRandy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...
- electric guitar, lead vocals
Other musicians
- David BriggsDavid Briggs (American musician)David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....
- keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
- Charles Buckins - percussion
- Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
- Roger Cox - drums
- Costo Davis - synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
- Quitman Dennis - saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Steve Gibson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Rob Hajacos - fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- Roger HawkinsRoger HawkinsRoger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
- drums - Robert Mater - drums
- Farrell Morris - percussion
- Larry Paxton - bass guitar
- Milton Sledge - drums
- John Willis - electric guitar
Production
- Produced by Alabama and Harold Shedd
- Recorded and engineered by Jim Cotton and Joe Scaife
- Assistant engineer: George W. Clinton
- Mastered by Benny Quinn
Album
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... 200 |
69 |
Canadian RPM Top Albums | 88 |
Singles
Year | Single | Peak positions | |
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US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
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1986 | "Touch Me When We're Dancing" | 1 | 1 |
1987 | ""You've Got" the Touch" | 1 | 1 |