You've Got the Touch

"You've Got the Touch"
Single by Alabama
from the album The Touch
Released	December 1986 (U.S.)
Format	7"
Recorded	1986
Genre	Country
Length	4:15
Label	RCA
Writer(s)	John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson
Producer	Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"Deep River Woman" (1986) "You've Got the Touch" (1987) "Tar Top" (1987)

"You've Got the Touch" is a song by the country music band Alabama. Originally released in 1987, the song — a ballad done in the band's signature mellow style — became a number-one hit on the Billboard 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 number seven that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face".

Chart positions

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

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 0-8230-7553-2)
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.

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 Bellamy Brothers
	RPM Country Tracks number-one single April 25, 1987	Succeeded by "Rose in Paradise" by Waylon Jennings