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Touch Too Much (Arrows song)

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Released
  
1974

Producer(s)
  
Mickie Most

Label
  
RAK Records

"Touch Too Much" (1974)
  
"Toughen Up" (1974)

B-side
  
We Can Make It Together

Writer(s)
  
Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn

"Touch Too Much" is a 1974 top 10 UK Singles Chart hit by the band Arrows (often alternatively known as "The Arrows"), sung by Arrows lead vocalist Alan Merrill, and composed by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. Merrill told Songfacts that the song was turned down by David Cassidy, Suzi Quatro and Sweet.

The recording was produced by Mickie Most and released on RAK Records, distributed by EMI.

The song was later covered by the bands Roman Holliday in the 1980s, and Hello in the 1990s.

The Arrows highest reaching chart hit was "Touch Too Much" in 1974 which went to #2 in the South African charts and was in the top 20 there for 15 weeks.

Arrows version appeared on the soundtrack of the feature film, The Look Of Love, a 2013 biopic of Paul Raymond.

References

Touch Too Much (Arrows song) Wikipedia