Soft Touch (Tammy Wynette album)

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Soft Touch
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 3, 1982
RecordedJan. 1982
Studio Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee) [1]
Genre Country
Length32:19
Label Epic
Producer George Richey
Tammy Wynette chronology
You Brought Me Back
(1981)
Soft Touch
(1982)
Good Love & Heartbreak
(1982)
Singles from Soft Touch
  1. "Another Chance"
    Released: Mar. 1982
  2. "You Still Get to Me in My Dreams"
    Released: Jul. 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Soft Touch is the twenty-third studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette. It was released on May 3, 1982, by Epic Records. [3]

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Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album's first single, "Another Chance", peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and the second single, "You Still Get to Me in My Dreams", peaked at No. 16.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Old Reliable" Wayland Holyfield 3:03
2."She Can't Take My Love Off the Bed"Debbie Hupp, Bob Morrison 2:56
3."Being Gone"Bill Taylor, Bobby Keel, Toni Dae, Judy Tigert3:18
4."What's It Like to Be a Woman" (duet with daughter Tina Byrd Jones) Chris Waters, Michael Garvin3:30
5."I'll Still Be Loving You This Much" Bobby Borchers, Curly Putman 2:58
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Another Chance"Robert Dawdry, Jerry Taylor, Dennis Knutson2:42
2."If I Didn't Have a Heart"Jerry Taylor, Knutson, Linda Juma3:53
3."You Still Get to Me in My Dreams" A.L. "Doodle" Owens, Bill Shore3:11
4."Sometimes I'm a Little Girl" Larry Henley, C. Michael Spriggs, Kathy Burdick3:24
5."Dancing Your Memory Away"Eddie Burton, Thomas Grant3:24

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.

Chart positions

Album

YearChartPeak
position
1982 Country Albums (Billboard) [4] 31

Singles

YearSingleChartPeak
position
1982"Another Chance" Country Singles (Billboard) [5] 8
1982"You Still Get to Me in My Dreams"Country Singles (Billboard) [6] 16

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