Touch Me in the Morning (album)

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Touch Me in the Morning
Studio album by Diana Ross
Released	June 22, 1973 January 2010 (Expanded Edition)
Recorded	1972–1973
Genre	Soul/pop
Length	34:08
Label	Motown Records M 772L
Producer	Gil Askey, Michael Masser, Deke Richards, Michael Randall Berry Gordy, Jr. (executive)
Diana Ross chronology
Greatest Hits (1972) Touch Me in the Morning (1973) Diana & Marvin (1973)
Singles from Touch Me in the Morning
"Touch Me in the Morning / I Won't Last a Day Without You" Released: May 3, 1973

Touch Me in the Morning is a 1973 album released by American singer Diana Ross on the Motown Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album spawned the hit title track, which became her second #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and helped the album peak at #5 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. It's the first album by Ross after the multi-platinum soundtrack to Ross' acclaimed film debut in Lady Sings the Blues. It also includes the first tracks Diana would personally produce on one of her albums, "Imagine" and "Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children". Several cuts here, including the closing Medley and "My Baby (My Baby, My Own)" were originally intended for the abandoned To the Baby album Diana also worked on in this period.

Track listing

1. "Touch Me in the Morning" (Michael Masser, Ron Miller) – 3:26
2. "All of My Life" (Michael Randall) – 3:31
3. "We Need You" (Deke Richards) – 3:44
4. "Leave a Little Room" (Michael Randall) – 3:37
5. "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) – 3:49
6. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:58
7. "My Baby (My Baby, My Own)" (Tom Baird) – 2:45
8. "Imagine" (John Lennon) – 3:01
9. "Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children" (Renaldo Benson, Oscar Brown, Jr., Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) – 8:17

2010 Expanded Edition

Touch Me in the Morning: Expanded Edition, released in January 2010, includes a newly remastered version of the original album plus previously unreleased mixes, and a pair of alternate versions of "Touch Me in the Morning". Disc two of the expanded edition contains the entire To the Baby album, which includes previously unreleased covers of Michael Jackson's "Got to Be There" and Roberta Flack's "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", as well as the original title tune, written by Diana's brother Arthur "T-Boy" Ross. The original medley, "Imagine/Save the Children", two songs that were split for the original album, plus alternate original mixes of songs intended for "To the Baby" that ended up on "Touch Me in the Morning", and an alternate mix of "Young Mothers", which previously had been issued in 1983. Two songs recorded during the same timeline: "Kewpie Doll", written and co-produced by Smokey Robinson, and "When We Grow Up", from Marlo Thomas' 1972 album Free to Be...You and Me.

Track listing

Disc 1 (Touch Me in the Morning)

1. "Touch Me in the Morning"
2. "All of My Life"
3. "We Need You"
4. "Leave a Little Room"
5. "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
6. "Little Girl Blue"
7. "My Baby (My Baby, My Own)"
8. "Imagine"
9. "Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children"
10. "Touch Me in the Morning" (alternate version #1)
11. "All of My Life" (alternate mix)
12. "We Need You" (alternate mix)
13. "Leave a Little Room" (alternate mix)
14. "Touch Me in the Morning" (alternate version #2)

Disc 2 (To the Baby)

1. "Part of You"
2. "A Wonderful Guest"
3. "Young Mothers" (alternate version)
4. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
5. "Got to Be There"
6. "To the Baby"
7. "Brown Baby" (alternate version)
8. "My Baby (My Baby, My Own)" (alternate version)
9. "Turn Around" (alternate version)
10. "Imagine/Save the Children" (original edit/alternate version)
11. "Kewpie Doll"
12. "When We Grow Up" (from Free to Be... You and Me)

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions[2]
		US	US R&B
1973	Touch Me in the Morning	5	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[3]
		US	US R&B	Adult Contemporary
1973	"Touch Me In The Morning"	1	5	1

External links

• Diana Ross-Touch In The Morning at Discogs

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1973 (U.S.)

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r16933/review
2. ^ "Diana Ross US albums chart history". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5308/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved 2011-07-16. 
3. ^ "Diana Ross US singles chart history". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5308/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-07-16.