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| Released | June 22, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1971–1973 | |||
| Studio | Motown Recording Studios, Hollywood, California | |||
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| Length | 34:08 | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
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Touch Me in the Morning is the fourth studio album by American singer Diana Ross, released on June 22, 1973, by Motown Records. The arrangements were by Gene Page, Tom Baird, Michael Randall, James Anthony Carmichael, Deke Richards, Gil Askey and Ross.
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C [2] |
The album contained the hit title track, which became Diana Ross' second number 1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and helped the album peak at number 5 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.
In the UK the title track and "All of My Life" were both Top Ten singles, and the album reached number 7 and was certified Gold for sales in excess of 100,000 copies. [3]
It includes the first tracks Diana would personally produce on one of her albums, "Imagine" and "Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children". Several cuts here, including the closing Medley and "My Baby (My Baby, My Own)", were originally intended for the abandoned To The Baby album that Ross also worked on in this period. She would also begin working with her brother/songwriter, Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, during these sessions.
Several of the songs on the album are covers of classics, including John Lennon's "Imagine", Marvin Gaye's "Save the Children" and the Richard Rodgers' standard "Little Girl Blue". The album also includes her recording of "I Won't Last a Day Without You", released a year prior to The Carpenters' hit version, as well as covers of lesser known songs originally recorded by The Fifth Dimension ("Leave A Little Room") and Oscar Brown Jr ("Brown Baby").
Touch Me in the Morning: Expanded Edition, released in January 2010, includes a newly remastered version of the original album plus previously unreleased mixes and alternate versions as well as two songs recorded during the same timeline: "Kewpie Doll", written and co-produced by Smokey Robinson, and "When We Grow Up", from Marlo Thomas' 1972 album Free to Be...You and Me.
Disc two of the expanded edition contains the entire previously unreleased To The Baby album, which includes covers of Michael Jackson's "Got To Be There" and Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", as well as the original title tune, written by Diana's brother Arthur "T-Boy" Ross. It also includes the medley, "Imagine/Save The Children", two songs that were split for the Touch Me In The Morning album, plus alternate original mixes of songs including "Young Mothers", which previously had been issued in 1983.
| Chart (1973) | Peak position |
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| Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] | 20 |
| Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [5] | 5 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [6] | 7 |
| US Billboard 200 [7] | 5 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [8] | 1 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI) [9] | Gold | 100,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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