" Touch Me While We Dance " is a song written by Terry Skinner, J. L. Wallace, and Ken Bell. Skinner and Wallace led Muscle Shoals, the Alabama Bama session group, which first recorded this song and released it as a single in 1979 reaching number 42 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and number 86 on Billboard. i> Hot 100 chart. The song was later recorded by The Carpenters in 1981 for their Made in America album. In 1984, it was recorded by country music artists Mickey Gilley and Charly McClain for their 1984 duo album. Needed Believers and in 1986 by Alabama country music group.
Video Touch Me When We're Dancing
Bama version
Version by Bama was produced by Jim Vienneau and released on the Free Flight label. It received a positive review on Billboard that praised the "smoothness of production" and said that the song "allows the group to achieve a strong identity".
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Carpent version
The Carpenters' version of "Touch Me When We Dancing" was released on their Made in America album in the summer of 1981. It placed at number 16 on Billboard Hot 100, it was the last single they reached the Top 40 after no songs appeared on the chart for more than three years. It is also their number five (and final) song on the adult contemporary chart. Side B, "Because We Are in Love", was played at Karen Carpenter's wedding with Thomas Burris on August 31, 1980.
Music video
The video for "Touch Me When Were Dancing" can be found in The Carpenters Gold video collection. The video consisted of Karen Carpenter singing and slowly dancing by her brother's piano Richard Carpenter. Footage from the couple's dance was superimposed onto Richard's black piano, like a view from behind Richard from his hand as he played. In the background are guitar players and drummers.
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Credits and personnel
- Karen Carpenter - main vocal and backing
- Richard Carpenter - backing vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano, piano, orchestration
- Joe Osborn - bass
- Tony Peluso - acoustic and electric guitar
- Team May - acoustics & amp; electric guitar
- Larrie Londin - drums
- Paulinho da Costa - wind chimes, cabasa, shaker, tambourine, cowbell
- Tom Scott - tenor saxophone
- Earl Dumler - oboe
- Carolyn Dennis - backing vocals
Alabama Version
The Alabama version was released in September 1986 as the first single from The Touch album. It then hit number one on Billboard at the end of that year, their 20th chart-topper in a string dating back to 1980. A video music made for the song, and directed by Marc Ball.
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References
External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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