Touching Home (song)

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"Touching Home"
Single by Jerry Lee Lewis
from the album Touching Home
A-side "Touching Home"
"Woman, Woman (Get Out of Our Way)"
ReleasedMarch 1971
Genre Country
Length2:34
Label Smash
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Lee Lewis singles chronology
"In Loving Memories" / "I Can't Have a Merry Christmas, Mary (Without You)""
(1970)
"Touching Home" / "Woman, Woman (Get Out of Our Way)"
(1971)
"Love on Broadway" / "Matchbox"
(1971)

"Touching Home" is a song written by Dallas Frazier and A. L. Owens and originally recorded by American musician Jerry Lee Lewis for his Mercury Records' album of the same name (1971). It was also released as a single [with "Woman, Woman (Get Out of Our Way)" from Mercury's album There Must Be More to Love Than This on the flip side], reaching number 5 on the Cash Box Country Singles chart and number 3 on the Billboard country chart.

Contents

Track listing

7" single (Mercury 73192, 1971 [1] )
No.TitleLength
1."Touching Home" 
2."Woman, Woman (Get Out of Our Way)" (From Mercury's album There Must Be More to Love Than This ) 

Charts

Chart (1970)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 3
US Cash Box Country Singles [3] 5

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References

  1. "Jerry Lee Lewis - Touching Home (1971, Vinyl)". Discogs. 1971. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  2. "Jerry Lee Lewis Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. George Albert (1 January 1984). The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982. Scarecrow Press. p. 203. ISBN   978-0-8108-1685-5.