"You've Got" the Touch

""You've Got" the Touch" is a song written by Lisa Palas, John Jarrard and Will Robinson, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. The song, a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style, was released in December 1986, as the second single from the album The Touch. "You've Got" the Touch was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in April 1987.^[1]

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 number seven that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face".

This song is unrelated to Stan Bush's song of a similar title from the Transformers movie.

Chart positions

Chart (1986-1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

Preceded by "Ocean Front Property" by George Strait	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single April 11, 1987	Succeeded by "Kids of the Baby Boom" by The Bellamy Brothers
Preceded by "Ocean Front Property" by George Strait	RPM Country Tracks number-one single April 25, 1987	Succeeded by "Rose in Paradise" by Waylon Jennings

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.

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 0-8230-7553-2)

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Alabama (band) 1977–1989 singles

Deuces Wild	"I Want to Be with You Tonight"

My Home's in Alabama	"I Wanna Come Over" "My Home's in Alabama" "Tennessee River" "Why Lady Why"

Feels So Right	"Old Flame" "Feels So Right" "Love in the First Degree"

Mountain Music	"Mountain Music" "Take Me Down" "Close Enough to Perfect"

The Closer You Get...	"Dixieland Delight" "The Closer You Get" "Lady Down on Love"

Roll On	"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" "When We Make Love" "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" "(There's A) Fire in the Night"

40-Hour Week	"There's No Way" "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" "Can't Keep a Good Man Down"

Greatest Hits	"She and I"

The Touch	"Touch Me When We're Dancing" ""You've Got" the Touch"

Just Us	"Tar Top" "Face to Face" "Fallin' Again"

Southern Star	"Song of the South" "If I Had You" "High Cotton" "Southern Star"

Other singles	"Christmas in Dixie" "Deep River Woman" (with Lionel Richie)

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