Songoftheday 9/19/17 - We're starting it over we're making way for destiny, a time to turn over a better life for you and me...
from the album Move To This (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from British pop/dance singer Cathy Dennis, who had landed her first solo top ten hit in America in the winter of 1991 with the bouncy house jam "Just Another Dream". Her second single (and third from her debut album, which included her collaboration with D-Mob on "C'mon and Get My Love") would be a cover of a club hit by a New York singer named Fonda Rae (Woods). Fonda's version of "Touch Me", which appeared in the second Nightmare On Elm Street movie, originally reached #5 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart in 1984, and crossed over to their R&B chart at #49. Written by Patrick Adams and Gregory Carmichael, the song also was a minor British hit at #49, which is probably how Dennis and her producers came to hear it...
Dennis changed up some of the lyrics, and with a HI-NRG-inspired production, landed herself her biggest pop hit in America...
Dennis' version of "Touch Me" climbed all the way to the runner-up spot on the American pop chart in May of 1991. The song also was her first to reach Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart at #32. The remixes on the 12" vinyl and CD/cassette singles helped it become her third and final #1 dance hit (after "C'mon and Get My Love" and "That's The Way Of The World" both with D-Mob). Internationally, the record reached the top ten in Ireland (#3), the UK (#5), and Canada (#9), while making the top-40 in Australia (#16), Switzerland (#16), the Netherlands (#26), Belgium (#29), Austria (#30), New Zealand (#34), and Germany (#39).
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Here's the club version of the record that topped the dance club play list in Billboard in March of 1991...
Cathy appeared on the World Music Awards in 1992 and sang (to track) the hit...
In 2004, Dutch Eurodance act Angel City also interpolated "Touch Me (All Night Long)" with more lyrical changes, and went to #18 in the UK...
And finally, here's Cathy performing "Touch Me" on Club MTV's Spring Break festivities...
Up tomorrow: Dance collective drops the pretense and lets its lead singer, well, sing.
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