Touch Me (49ers song)

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"Touch Me"
49ers-touch me single.jpg
Single by 49ers
from the album 49ers
B-side "Remix"
Released4 December 1989
Genre Italo house [1] [2]
Length3:43
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Gianfranco Bortolotti
49ers singles chronology
"Shadows"
(1989)		"Touch Me"
(1989)		"Don't You Love Me"
(1990)
Music video
"Touch Me" on YouTube

"Touch Me" is an Italo house song by Italian group 49ers. Produced by Gianfranco Bortolotti, it was released on 4 December 1989 by label Island as the third single from their debut album, 49ers (1990). The song received favorable reviews from music critics, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart [3] and it was a top-10 hit in at least 10 other countries in Europe. Outside Europe, it was the first of four hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for 49ers. It samples Aretha Franklin's "Rock-A-Lott" from 1987 and Alisha Warren's "Touch Me". The accompanying music video features singer Dawn Mitchell, 49ers frontwoman at the time.

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Chart performance

"Touch Me" was quite successful on the charts across several continents. The song remains the group's biggest hit, peaking at number-one on both the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States and the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada. [4] [5] It spent two weeks at number-one and a total of eleven weeks on the Billboard dance chart. [6] In Europe, the single became a top-10 hit in Austria (9), Denmark (5), Finland (3), Greece (3), Ireland (4), Luxembourg (2), Spain (6), Sweden (8), Switzerland (6), the UK (3) and West Germany (7). [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] In the UK, it peaked at number three in its sixth week at the UK Singles Chart, on January 14, 1990. [15] Additionally, "Touch Me" was a top-20 hit in Belgium and the Netherlands. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it peaked at number seven on January 27, after three weeks on the chart. [16] In Oceania, it also entered the top 20, peaking at numbers 15 and 18 in New Zealand and Australia, respectively.

Critical reception

AllMusic editor Alex Henderson noted that Italian producer Gianfranco Bortolotti "sees to it that vocal personality is a prime ingredient of such exuberant offerings" as "Touch Me". [17] Bill Coleman from Billboard magazine described the song as a "soulful 'Ride On Time'-style workout", noting that "strong production and a contagious chorus render track satisfying." [18] He added that "the energetic technotrack utilizes the a cappellas (and quite well actually)" of Aretha Franklin's "Rock-A-Lott" and Alisha Warren's modest UK hit "Touch Me". [19] Ernest Hardy from Cash Box found that inspired by the success of Black Box and "Ride On Time", "this one finds Aretha Franklin in the Loleatta Holloway role." He concluded, "It is full of energy". [20]

Bob Stanley from Melody Maker named it "a beautifully constructed rip-off of 'Ride On Time' (which in turn was a beautifully constructed rip-off of 'Theme from S'Express')." [21] In 1994, Melody Maker editors Peter Paphides and Simon Price remarked that merging of Italo and garage had resulted in "a million fantastic, brutally poppy house tracks with loads of sampled screaming divas", like "Touch Me". [2] Music & Media considered it "storming dance material with house rhythm and loads of samples. Definitely a record with chart and dance floor potential. Listen up." [22] Lola Borg from Smash Hits complimented it as "genuine Italian house music", noting that "it sounds like a cross between Lil Louis (with mad barking dogs) and Black Box and it's fiendishly good and can only be appreciated fully by wiggling all over the shop whilst it's on at full blast." [1] Another Smash Hits editor, Ian Cranna, praised the single as "glorious", with "prime quality Italian house-thumping beats ahoy, rousing piano and strings galore and singalong catchy pop bits all over the shop." [23]

Track listing

  1. "Touch Me" (Radio Version) — 3:43
  2. "Touch Me" (Instrumental Edit) — 3:40
  1. "Touch Me" (Sexual Version) — 6:06
  2. "Touch Me" (Radio Version) — 3:43
  3. "Touch Me" (Instrumental) — 5:50
  1. "Touch Me" (Radio Version) — 3:43
  2. "Touch Me" (Hard Core Remix) — 5:36
  3. "Touch Me" (Hard Core Version) — 6:26
  4. "Touch Me" (Sexual Version) — 5:53
  5. "Touch Me" (Instrumental) — 5:50

Charts

References

  1. 1 2 Borg, Lola (13 December 1989). "Singles". Smash Hits . p. 49. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 Paphides, Peter; Price, Simon (14 May 1994). "The Europop Family Tree". Melody Maker . p. 28. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "49ers - Official Chart history". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 Waddell, Ray (7 February 2012). "Madonna Sets 2012 World Tour Dates". Billboard . Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Top RPM Dance/Urban: Issue 9024." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 101.
  7. 1 2 "49ers – Touch Me" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  8. 1 2 Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN   9789511210535.
  9. 1 2 "Top 3 Singles Europe: Greece" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 7, no. 14. 7 April 1990. p. VII. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  10. 1 2 Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  11. 1 2 Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN   84-8048-639-2.
  12. 1 2 "49ers – Touch Me". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  13. 1 2 "49ers – Touch Me". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  14. 1 2 "49ers singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  15. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100 14 January 1990 - 20 January 1990". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  16. 1 2 "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 7, no. 4. 27 January 1990. p. IV. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  17. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "49ers - 49ers". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  18. ↑ Coleman, Bill (24 February 1990). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard . p. 79. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  19. ↑ Coleman, Bill (3 March 1990). "Dance Trax: Prince Of Nip-House Lazy Gets Crazy On Debut" (PDF). Billboard . p. 29. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  20. ↑ Hardy, Ernest (31 March 1990). "Pop Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Cash Box . p. 18. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  21. ↑ Stanley, Bob (17 March 1990). "Albums". Melody Maker . Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  22. ↑ "Previews: Singles" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 7, no. 6. 10 February 1990. p. 15. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  23. ↑ Cranna, Ian (7 March 1990). "Review: LPs". Smash Hits . No. 294. p. 55. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  24. ↑ "49ers – Touch Me". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  25. ↑ "49ers – Touch Me" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  26. ↑ Belgian peak Archived 9 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ↑ Danish Singles Chart. 30 March 1990.
  28. ↑ Radio Luxembourg Singles. 14 January 1990.
  29. ↑ "Single top 100 over 1990" (PDF) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  30. ↑ "49ers – Touch Me" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  31. ↑ "49ers – Touch Me". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  32. ↑ "Touch Me", UK Singles Chart Official Charts Company (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  33. ↑ "Dance Singles Sales" . Billboard . 21 April 1990. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  34. ↑ "Top 50 Dance Tracks of 1990". RPM . 22 December 1990. Retrieved 23 September 2018– via Library and Archives Canada.
  35. ↑ "Top 100 Singles–Jahrescharts 1990" (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  36. ↑ "Årstopplistan 1990, Singlar" (in Swedish). Grammotex. Archived from the original on 16 February 2001. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  37. ↑ "The Record Mirror Year End Club Chart". Record Mirror . Vol. 38, no. 1. 5 January 1991. p. 41. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  38. ↑ "The Year in Music 1990: Top Dance Club Play Singles". Billboard. Vol. 103, no. 51. 22 December 1991. p. YE-31.
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