Sometimes When We Touch

"Sometimes When We Touch"
Single by Dan Hill
from the album Longer Fuse
B-side	"Still Not Used To"
Released	4 February 1978
Format	7" single
Recorded	1977
Genre	Soft rock
Length	4:05 (Album Version) 3:31 (Single Edit)
Label	GRT TU 2750/20th Century Fox
Writer(s)	Dan Hill (lyrics) Barry Mann (music)
Producer(s)	Matthew McCauley and Fred Mollin

"Sometimes When We Touch" is a 1977 ballad written by Dan Hill (lyrics) and Barry Mann (music) on the album Longer Fuse, but was also released as a single in 1978. It was Hill's biggest hit, peaking at # 3 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on the Easy Listening chart. Musicians included Bobby Ogdin (piano), Larrie Londin (drums), Bob Mann (guitar), Don Potter (guitar), Tom Szczesniak (bass). The record was produced by Fred Mollin and Matthew McCauley, recorded at Manta Sound, Toronto.

Tina Turner recorded a version for her 1978 album, Rough. An Estonian language version of the song (entitled "Puudutus") also exists. Often performed as a duet, the song has been covered by Koit Toome and Maarja-Liis Ilus among others. On Toome's acoustic greatest hits album, "Allikas", the song is present as a solo piece with the tune credited to "H. Dan".

UK dance singer Newton also took the song into the top 40 in the UK (peaking at #32 in February 1996) and to #5 in Australia, also in 1996. Newton's version went Gold in Australia.

In 2008, Daniel Evans performed the song at his first audition on series 5 of the X Factor (UK) bringing judge Cheryl Cole to tears after he sang in memory of his wife, who died shortly after childbirth. The clip has had nearly 20 million views on YouTube. He subsequently released the song on his debut album No Easy Way in 2010.

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