Do You Wanna Touch Me Explained

Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Cover:GaryGlitterDoYouWannaTouchMe7InchSingleCover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Gary Glitter
Album:Touch Me
B-Side:I Would If I Could but I Can't
Released:January 1973
Recorded:1972
Genre:Glam rock
Length:3:19
Label:Bell
Producer:Mike Leander
Prev Title:I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again
Next Year:1973

"Do You Wanna Touch Me", also referred to as "Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)" is a song by English glam rock singer Gary Glitter, written by Glitter with Mike Leander and produced by Leander. It was released as the lead single from his second studio album, Touch Me (1973), peaking at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1973, his third successive UK hit. The single also reached No. 9 in Ireland and No. 11 in Australia.

Joan Jett version

Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
Cover:Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah).jpg
Border:yes
Type:single
Artist:Joan Jett
Album:Bad Reputation
B-Side:"Victim of Circumstance"
Genre:Glam rock
Length:3:48 (album version)
3:24 (single version)
Label:Boardwalk
Producer:
Chronology:Joan Jett
Prev Title:Crimson and Clover
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:Nag
Next Year:1982

"Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" was later covered by rock singer Joan Jett in 1980 for her debut solo studio album, Bad Reputation (1981). Following the success of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" nearly two years later, the song was released as a single in the summer of 1982 and reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 that September.[1] In Canada, the song spent two weeks at No. 8.[2]

Jett's version of the song appears in a 2008 TV commercial for Hewlett-Packard's TouchSmart computers. The commercial was withdrawn when the company learned that Glitter, now a convicted sex offender, had written the song. On 29 October 2008, it was reported that Glitter would receive £100,000 in royalties from Hewlett-Packard for the advertisement.[3]

Track listings and formats

  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
  2. "Victim of Circumstance"  – 2:54
  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:39
  2. "Summertime Blues"  – 2:23
  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
  2. "Victim of Circumstance"  – 2:54
  3. "Summertime Blues"  – 2:16
  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
  2. "Bad Reputation"  – 2:48
  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
  2. "Jezebel"  – 3:25 (UK release labeled as "Jezebel," but actual cut was "Bad Reputation")
  1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
  2. "Wooly Bully"  – 2:18

Credits and personnel

Credits and personnel are adapted from the Bad Reputation album liner notes.[10]

Weekly charts

Chart (1982)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)18
Austria 19
Canada RPM Top Singles[11] 8
Germany 19
New Zealand (RIANZ)11
Switzerland 12
US Billboard Hot 100[12] 20
US Billboard Mainstream Rock21
US Cash Box Top 10029

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)Rank
Canada [13] 73
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[14] 123

Release history

Glee cover controversy

In 2011, the song was covered by guest star Gwyneth Paltrow and other cast members for the season 2 episode 15 of the musical television series Glee, "Sexy". The performance caused some controversy in the UK over the resulting royalty payments to Glitter, who was by then a convicted sex offender. The charity Kidscape described the song's inclusion as "wholly inappropriate".[16] The UK version of the album does not therefore include the song, but replaces it with the cover of "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band from the same episode.

Cover by the Cure

The Cure played this song several times during the Head Tour in 1985.[17]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. .
  2. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1982-10-09 . 2022-03-12.
  3. Web site: Celebrity | Yahoo News UK . Uk.news.launch.yahoo.com . 2016-10-03 . 2016-10-08 . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927165543/http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/29102008/364/glitter-payout-sparks-outrage.html&e=l_news_dm . dead .
  4. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co.. NB-11-150-7.
  5. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co.. NB-11-150-7.
  6. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. Australian 12-inch vinyl liner notes. Liberation Records. LMD 201.
  7. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. Greek 7-inch vinyl liner notes. Epic Records. EPC A 2985.
  8. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. United Kingdom 7-inch vinyl liner notes. Epic Records. EPC A2674.
  9. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. 1982. Mexican 7-inch vinyl liner notes. Columbia Records. K-30,270.
  10. Joan Jett. Bad Reputation. 1981. Vinyl liner notes. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co.. NB1 33251.
  11. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1982-10-09 . 2022-03-12.
  12. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 -
  13. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada. collectionscanada.gc.ca. 2018-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160811145442/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6167&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062. 2016-08-11. dead.
  14. Book: Whitburn, Joel . 1999 . Pop Annual . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin . Record Research Inc. . 0-89820-142-X.
  15. National Music Formats: Added This Week. Radio & Records. 442. 58. July 23, 1982.
  16. Web site: Gwyneth Paltrow in Gary Glitter controversy over Glee . Telegraph . 2011-03-11 . 2016-10-08.
  17. Web site: The Cure concerts 1985 . Cure-concerts.de . 2016-10-08.