Touch Me in the Morning (album)


Touch Me in the Morning is a 1973 album released by American singer Diana Ross on the Motown Records. It reached #5 in the USA and sold around 650,000 copies. The arrangements were by Gene Page, Tom Baird, Michael Randall, James Anthony Carmichael, Deke Richards, Gil Askey and Diana Ross.

Reception

The album contained the hit title track, which became Diana Ross' second #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and helped the album peak at #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 #7 and was certified Gold for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.
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 " were originally intended for the abandoned To The Baby album Diana also worked on in this period. Diana 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". It 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 The Fifth Dimension and Oscar Brown Jr.

Track listing

  1. "Touch Me in the Morning" – 3:26
  2. "All of My Life" – 3:31
  3. "We Need You" – 3:44
  4. "Leave a Little Room" – 3:37
  5. "I Won't Last a Day Without You" – 3:49
  6. "Little Girl Blue" – 3:58
  7. "My Baby " – 2:45
  8. "Imagine" – 3:01
  9. "Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children" – 8:17

    2010 Expanded Edition

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.

Track listing

;Disc 1
;Disc 2
  1. "Part Of You"
  2. "A Wonderful Guest"
  3. "Young Mothers"
  4. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
  5. "Got To Be There"
  6. "To The Baby"
  7. "Brown Baby"
  8. "My Baby "
  9. "Turn Around"
  10. "Imagine/Save the Children"
  11. "Kewpie Doll"
  12. "When We Grow Up"

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