| Out of Touch | |
| Cover: | OutofTouch.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Daryl Hall & John Oates |
| Album: | Big Bam Boom |
| B-Side: | Cold, Dark and Yesterday |
| Released: | October 4, 1984 |
| Studio: | Electric Lady (New York City) |
| Genre: | |
| Length: |
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| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Adult Education |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Method of Modern Love |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
"Out of Touch" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates from their twelfth studio album Big Bam Boom (1984). The song was released as the lead single from Big Bam Boom on Thursday, October 4, 1984, by RCA Records. This song was their last Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, topping the chart for two weeks in December 1984. It also became the duo's fourteenth consecutive top 40 hit since 1980.[1]
The song often segued from "Dance on Your Knees", which is the opening song of the Big Bam Boom album. The accompanying music video for "Out of Touch", featuring a gigantic drum kit, also contains the "Dance on Your Knees" intro, which segues into an edit of the 12-inch remix version.
According to John Oates, he came up with the chorus while randomly playing around with a synthesizer that he did not know how to use. He thought it could be a song for the Stylistics, having a Philly sound. But in the studio the next day a co-producer told him it should be a hit for Hall & Oates themselves. Oates and Hall then co-wrote the verse.[2]
US 7-inch vinyl single
US 12-inch vinyl single
UK 12-inch vinyl single
| Chart (1984–1985) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 11 |
| Canada (The Records Retail Singles)[4] | 4 |
| Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[5] | 45 |
| US Cash Box Top 100[6] | 3 |
| Chart (1984) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Top Singles (RPM)[7] | 47 | |
| US Cash Box Top 100[8] | 43 |
A video was made for the song, including scenes in which Hall and Oates were inside a gigantic drum set, which Oates bangs an equally gigantic bass drum pedal into, and from which at the end of the video, both Hall and Oates escape. The video also features the word boom in gigantic letters, with Hall and Oates dancing inside the two big O letters.[10]
| Out of Touch | |
| Cover: | Out-of-touch-by-uniting-nations.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Uniting Nations |
| Album: | One World |
| Length: | 2:47 |
| Label: | Gusto |
| Producer: | |
| Next Title: | You and Me |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
English dance music act Uniting Nations covered "Out of Touch" and released it as their debut single on November 15, 2004. This version peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart in January 2005 and remained in the top 75 for 21 weeks. Elsewhere, the cover reached number one in Romania—where it was the most successful single of 2005—and became a top-10 hit in Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway. The vocals on the recording were done by vocalist and session artist Jinian Wilde.
The music video for the song features actors Paul Spicer,[11] Charleene Rena, Hayley-Marie Coppin, Sophie Lovell Anderson, Daniela Martins, a participant of French Big Brother Secret Story, and one unidentified woman playing strip poker.
UK CD single[12]
UK 12-inch single[13]
A1. "Out of Touch" (extended mix) – 6:16
A2. "Out of Touch" (Hardfaze Remix) – 7:55
B1. "Out of Touch" (Skylab Remix) – 7:03
B2. "Out of Touch" (Tyrell Remix) – 6:50
Australian and New Zealand CD single[14]
| Chart (2004–2006) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Czech Republic (IFPI)[15] | 20 |
| Ireland Dance (IRMA)[16] | 1 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100)[17] | 1 |
| Chart (2005-2006) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[19] | 87 | |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[20] | 26 | |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100)[21] | 1 | |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[22] | 134 | |
| UK Singles (OCC)[23] | 74 |
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | November 15, 2004 | CD | Festival Mushroom | [24] |
| United Kingdom | November 22, 2004 | Gusto | [25] |
