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Single by Rui da Silva & Cass Fox | |||||||||||
Released | 1 January 2001 | ||||||||||
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12-inch single CD single |
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Genre | House, trance | ||||||||||
Length | 8:36 (original mix) 3:40 (radio edit) |
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Label | Kismet Records/64 Records/BMG | ||||||||||
Producer(s) | Rui Da Silva & Cassandra Fox | ||||||||||
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"Touch Me" | ||||
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Single by Cass Fox | ||||
from the album Come Here | ||||
Released | 30 October 2006 | |||
Format | CD single, 12" | |||
Genre | Soul, R&B | |||
Length | 4:01 | |||
Label | Island | |||
Producer(s) | Rollo Armstrong | |||
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"Touch Me" is a song by Portuguese house producer Rui da Silva and British singer-songwriter Cassandra Fox. The single is arguably Rui da Silva's most popular song, spending one week at the number-one spot on the UK Singles Chart, the first song by a Portuguese act to do so, lasting a total of 14 weeks on the chart alone and selling over 300,000 copies. The soulful vocal, trance chords, and deep house groove of "Touch Me" earned Rui an award for Best Single in the Muzik Magazine Dance Awards 2001, as well as a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the Dance Star Awards.
Vocalist Cassandra Fox wrote the song and co-produced the hit single with Rui (Cass writing the lyrics, Fox/Silva writing the backing track) hanging out at Silva's studio after the two met when he and a friend saw her performing in the West End.
Da Silva told Billboard that the song originally contained a guitar part which was inspired by Spandau Ballet's "Chant No. 1". This part was removed after difficulties in getting clearance on the publishing. The removal of this part resulted in the record's release being delayed from Christmas 2000 until the beginning of 2001.
Island Records released their own version in 2006, re-recording it with the backing track for her album Come Here. Information of the re-release was posted on her personal website. "4 years after the track was originally number one, the track written and sung by Cass with Rui da Silva is being re-released on October 30th. Remixes come from X-Press 2, Tom Neville and Spencer & Hill and have already been getting plays on Radio 1 (Judge Jules) and Kiss FM."
Cassandra Fox left Island Records, and decided not to move forward with the re-release of Touch Me. She went on the Faithless Tour instead.