"You've Got" the Touch

Infobox Single
Name = "You've Got" the Touch


Artist = Alabama
from Album = The Touch
Released = December 1986 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Country
Length = 4:15
Label = RCA
Writer = John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson
Producer = Harold Shedd and Alabama
Last single = "Touch Me When We're Dancing"
(1986)
This single = "'You've Got' the Touch"
(1987)
Next single = "Tar Top"
(1987)

"You've Got" the Touch is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1987, the song — a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style — became a No. 1 hit on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart in April 1987.

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 No. 7 that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face."

References

*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 0-82-307553-2)
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.