Out of Touch

"Out of Touch"
Single by Daryl Hall & John Oates
from the album Big Bam Boom
B-side	"Cold, Dark and Yesterday"
Released	October 4, 1984
Studio	Electric Lady (New York City)
Genre	Dance-rock synth-pop new wave
Length	4:21 (album version) 3:55 (single version) 4:33 (video version)
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Daryl Hall John Oates
Producer(s)	Daryl Hall & John Oates Bob Clearmountain
Daryl Hall & John Oates singles chronology
"Adult Education" (1984) "Out of Touch" (1984) "Method of Modern Love" (1984)
Audio sample
"Out of Touch" file help
Music video
"Out of Touch" on YouTube

"Out of Touch" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates from their twelfth studio album Big Bam Boom (1984). The song was released as the lead single from Big Bam Boom on Thursday, October 4, 1984, by RCA Records. This song was their last Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, topping the chart for two weeks in December 1984. It also became the duo's fourteenth consecutive top 40 hit since 1980.^[1]

The song often segued from "Dance on Your Knees", which is the opening song of the Big Bam Boom album. The accompanying music video for "Out of Touch", featuring a gigantic drum kit, also contains the "Dance on Your Knees" intro, which segues into an edit of the 12-inch remix version.

According to John Oates, he came up with the chorus while randomly playing around with a synthesizer that he did not know how to use. He thought it could be a song for the Stylistics, having a Philly sound. But in the studio the next day a co-producer told him it should be a hit for Hall & Oates themselves. Oates and Hall then co-wrote the verse.^[2]