“Touch Me” by The Doors

"Touch Me" is the Doors reaching for the big room: a Robby Krieger song from late 1968, released as a single that December and later anchoring The Soft Parade in 1969. Paul A. Rothchild produced it and loaded it with horns and strings, trumpets, trombone, woodwinds, cor anglais, a whole section of violins and cellos, and let Curtis Amy blow a saxophone solo over the top. Jim Morrison croons like a nightclub singer who has wandered into an orchestra pit, while Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Harvey Brooks on bass keep the swing tight.

It climbed to number 3 on the Hot 100, their last American top-ten hit, and went to number one on Cashbox and in Canada, though it never charted in the UK. In 2024 it went Platinum on digital sales.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.