Touch Me (The Doors song)

"Touch Me"
Single by the Doors
from the album The Soft Parade
B-side"Wild Child"
ReleasedDecember 1968
RecordedNovember 1968
StudioElektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
Genre
Length3:11
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Robby Krieger
Producer(s)Paul A. Rothchild
The Doors singles chronology
"Hello, I Love You"
(1968) 		"Touch Me"
(1968) 		"Wishful Sinful"
(1969)

"Touch Me" is a song by the Doors from their 1969 album The Soft Parade. Written by guitarist Robby Krieger in late 1968, it makes extensive use of brass and string instruments, including a solo by featured saxophonist Curtis Amy.[3][4]

It was released as a single in December 1968 and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (their last Top Ten hit in US) and No. 1 in the Cashbox Top 100 in early 1969 (the band's third American number-one single). The single also did well elsewhere, peaking at No. 1 in the RPM Canadian Singles Chart and at No. 10 in the Kent Music Report in Australia. However, despite the band's commercial success the previous year, "Touch Me" did not chart in the UK Singles Chart.

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