Please Don't Touch (song)

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"Please Don't Touch"
Single by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
B-side "Growl" (Johnny Kidd/Guy Robinson)
Released8 May 1959 (UK)
Recorded Abbey Road: 18 April 1959
Genre Rock and roll
Label HMV POP 615 (UK)
Songwriter(s) Johnny Kidd
Guy Robinson
Producer(s) Walter J. Ridley
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates singles chronology
"Please Don't Touch"
(1959)
"If You Were The Only Girl In The World"
(1959)

"Please Don't Touch" is the debut single by English rock and roll group Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, released in 1959 and reaching number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. [1]

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