"You've Got" the Touch

"You've Got the Touch"
Single by Alabama
from the album The Touch
B-side	"True, True Housewife"
Released	December 1986 (U.S.)
Recorded	1986
Genre	Country rock, country pop
Length	4:15
Label	RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)	John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson
Producer(s)	Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"Deep River Woman" (1986) "You've Got the Touch" (1986) "Tar Top" (1987)

"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 and final 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 1986 Transformers movie.

Charts

Chart (1986–1987)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
2. "Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

Works cited

• 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)