Arrows, Touch Too Much, Alan Merrill
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2008
- Arrows perform their top ten chart hit "touch too much" on Top Of The Pops in the UK in 1974. The record was produced by legend Mickie Most on his RAK-EMI record label. The Arrows band members are bassist lead singer Alan Merrill, guitarist Jake Hooker and drummer Paul Varley.
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I loved this song in 1974, still love it 45 years later, in 2019!
Wow, blast from the past! How hot was Alan Merrill?!
Great production by Mickie Most, really well sung and played by the band. A perfect UK mid 70s glam era seventies record.
Remember micky most saying during an interview he'd never read a book in his life
Naughty, naughty Alan , love this song I can't get it out of my head.
Reached #2 in South Africa and was in the Top 20 for 15 weeks
I met these guys in the mid 70's when`Touch Too Much' was released. A friend of my folks Henry had a flat next to theirs. They were realy cool as I was about 14 and just learning guitar. They definitely deserved more credit, a great song and I never realised they did original of ` I Love Rock And Roll'.
I love the Arrows!!!!
+Viv Holt This certainly got my attention as a young teen.Like it was written for gorgeous Alan and the boys.So glad they got this ,a no 8 hit and were noticed cos it was their biggest hit sadly
# 6 in the NME charts!!
@@arrowmax60r13 There's plenty of great Alan Merrill solo music out there. Being in the charts just means the music industry backed you. Nothing to do with how good an artist is. All of Alan Merrill's songs are hits for me. I don't care about charts.
I love this kind of rock song.
Susan Woo Power pop rock produced by Mickie Most.
40 years ago today this song peaked at No. 6 on the UK charts. :-)
These talented boys completely made this song their own x
Always loved Arrows and Alan has such an amazing vocal X.
Maaan, I forgot all about this! Exelent stuff....Memories of boppin at discos in the 70's
I got this on vinyl, went out and bought as soon as it hit the charts.
Just thinking Im so glad the super talented Arrows did get Touch Too Much as their debut single ,as it was their biggest hit as things did not go too well later.Glad Mickie Most did give them this super catchy song and did do right by them ,if only for his own selfish reason.Its like it was written for my fave group.It got them noticed for sure and though they were not massive ,with all the other overhyped twits, this and the TV show gave them some well deserved fame.I know I was there and love /loved these gorgeous guys. Got my attention alright and I was hooked.
+Arrowmax60 r It's my opinion that Mickie Most only recorded Touch Too Much with the Arrows to prove to David Cassidy that the song was hit material after David passed on it. Mr. Most didn't expect the Arrows to take off with the public and become so popular so fast. He was lumbered with a band then that had already served his purposes. He proved it was a hit song.
Great post. I've had the privilege of billing with Alan Merrill at a few local shows.
RIP Jake and Paul.
RIP Paul Varley and Jake Hooker
Takes me back!
The Arrows were one of the best of their era. Too bad their record label overlooked them after their first hit singles.
Lead singer Alan Merrill, the last surviving Arrows band member still does this song in his live shows as well as the Arrows 1975 "I Love Rock N Roll."
Also Terry Taylor is still alive , so ....
True, but he wasn't a founding member and he joined at a point in time (1976) when the band weren't releasing and recordings any more due to a row between their management and record label. So though Mr. Taylor was in the band just prior to their breaking up he was not a part of the band's zenith in 1974 and 1975.
While Alan is the last living member and front man of the original lineup that had the hit singles(1974-'75), it's true that the band's late joiner (1976) Terry Taylor is also still living and performing with Bill Wyman's Ryhythm Kings.
This song was responsible for getting me detention at school and grounded at home for sneaking off to the Rainbow, Kilburn Gaumont, Wimbledon to see my idols The Arrows! Loved these guyz..
Wow, first time i hear this song and i already got an eargasm
Absolutely love this so glad the boys got this super catchy sexy song ,which turned out to be their biggest hit.Just found the B side We Can Make It Together on here.Not heard since the seventies,even though I got all the singles.Loved it as a teen so much and it sent shivers down my spine hearing it again.Love the Arrows forever xx.Must give my 45s a spin soon .
+Arrowmax60 r
The band were actually writing better songs than this though. But the label wouldn't let the band record their own material, which was too often how it was in the UK pop scene in the early 70s. I mean, consider the Arrows presented the label with "I Love Rock N Roll" and they didn't hear it as a hit song. It's ridiculous actually.
This video promotional clip was made due to the Arrows heavy touring schedule in 1974 when this single took off. Although the Arrows did an in studio Top Of The Pops on their first appearance, once the record went top 10 a few weeks later the band were off on tour, so their producer Mickie Most of RAK records had this promotional film made for airing on Top Of The Pops and other shows in the UK and Europe since the band were on the road.
The Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill just did this in New York at the Glamdammit Grand Victory glam rock fest with some other Arrows songs. He got two encores too. An amazing energetic set.
Fantastic 70s song.
He's been doing more electric shows with a trio lately. He's got a lot of great hit songs to play so I'll bet it was great.
This is the debut single that got the band national attention in the UK on Top Of The Pops. The record went into the top 10 for 8 weeks.
Just a joke you know.I was and always will be their biggest fan .Had to put up with my best friend wearing bloomin tartan when we went out together for silly Bay City Rollers.
+Maxine Glover : The Arrows and the Bay City Rollers were bands that defy comparison. The BCR had huge label hype and Arrows had very little support from their label.
I know, he's been playing around the New York area a lot. England and Germany are already confirmed for January 2013, then a tour of Japan. The Arrow is still sharp. lol
So cool!!
This still sounds great in 2013!
That's what I call music \m/
The 70s popmaster Mike Chapman wrote this 1974hit song with some muscular business assistance from Nikki Chinn, and slick pop production by Generalisimo Mickie Most.
love you Alan Merril !!!
Alan just did a three hour show at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village last friday night. It was killer!
Yeah I see Arrows singer Alan Merrill just did this song on his tour of the UK and Europe this January 2013 along with other Arrows hits.
Remember buying this the day Liverpool played Newcastle in the 1974 FA Cup final. I seem to recall it was originally written by Chinn & Chapman for The Sweet as a track for an album titled simply 'Rock N Roll' ,this fell by the wayside & 'Touch Too Much was rescued to be Arrows first single.
Like this best as it is the single but there are some good different versions on Arrows show.
This Arrows song was a top ten hit first in 1974, a few years before AC/DC came up with a song with the same title.
I fucking love these guys!
Me too always loved Arrows since I was 13.Most underrated band ever.So badly managed.
Wow Alan cool!
Yeah and I see the Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill just did this in London England at the Lexington venue on Jan 27th 2013 and other Arrows hit songs.
Also he made a show with this song in Tokyo Japan in 2017
My pin up boys at age 14.Super talented trio way better than all the others ,my first sexy song.So glad they got to do this
Good TOTPs appearance. The song went top 10!
Wonder how many times Alan had to practice all those sighs after they were given the lyrics to learn fast.WOW
+Maxine Glover Alan Merrill the Arrows singer contributed to the lyric in a small part. The "you know what I want" was a quick aside, not on the demo or lyrics sheet.
He's said so in interviews.
TOUCH TOO MUCH najväčší hit skupiny ARROWS, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku deväť týždňov od 25. mája 1974 kedy na vrchole bola pieseň Sugar Baby Love od skupiny The Rubettes a obsadil 8.m. Na b strane singlu bola pieseň I Love Rock ´N Roll, ktorej autormi boli Merill a Hooker. Skupinu založenú v roku 1974 v Londýne tvorili Alan Merril vl.m. Allan Preston Sachs nar. 19. februara 1951 v Bronxe syn speváčky Helen Merill nar. 21. júla 1930 a hráča na saxofon Aarona Sachsa (1923-2014) V skupine okrel Merilla, ktorý spieval a hral na basovej gitare boli Jerry Mamberg umeleckým menom John Hooker nar. 3. mája 1953 v Izraeli, ktorý zomrel 4. augusta 2014 solová gitara a Paul Varley nar. 24. mája 1949 v UK, ktorý zomrel 2. júla 2008 bicie.Druhým hitom skupiny v UK bola pieseň My Last Night With You, ktorá na jar 1975 skončila na 25.m.
Good Song
great stuff!
This one went up to #6 in the NME charts.
I see the Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill just did this in London England at the Lexington venue on Jan 27th 2013 and other Arrows hit songs.
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@steve613able The Arrows broke up in 1977. Drummer Paul Varley sadly passed away in the summer of 2008. Jake Hooker is an entrepreneur of all sorts, and hasn't played music professionally since the Arrows. Singer Alan Merrill's career is an open book on a Google search, he's still performing and recording with great frequency. Late joiner Arrows guitarist Terry Taylor is now musical director with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
-*The Arrows rock*-
erg fijn ......rely gret this thinx
Its like walking into the waves beachgirl
True! He still is, though :)
@sooziwoozi The seventies in the UK were great for the glam rock and pop stuff.
@WeTheStrange This was a good one for that!!
alan merrill now lives in new york, i have him as a freind on facebook.
@LittleJohnJack Time has a way of sorting things out. There were over hyped mediocre bands and overlooked bands like the Arrows, who are looking better and better as time goes by.
HOT
@steve613able Henry lived next to the Arrows singer Alan Merrill in London's Notting Hill Gate.
@piskey01 Yes, Suzi turned it down, as did David Cassidy and The Sweet. Lucky for The Arrows! LOL
Due to [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_Too_Much_(Arrows_song)] is this song composed by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
Paul's drumming is very cool on this. A bit like Keith Moon.
@derekandcaroline1977 I used to mime to all the 70s pop hits!
@KeithTheKing Thats incredible you remember that, he was a real character. It sounds like you knew them, so what ever happened to The Arrows?
@piskey01 OK, glad you claified that. This is way off topic as realtes to this Arrows song, so I'm going to have to close this thread out. All the best- KTK
I would like to know if this is where Bon Scott got the idea for Touch too Much on the Highway to Hell album.
@piskey01 -
Sorry. I don't see "Touch Too Much" here-
From wikipedia-
Sweet Fanny Adams CD reisuuse-
1."Set Me Free"-
2."Heartbreak Today" -
3."No You Don't"-
4."Rebel Rouser" -
5."Peppermint Twist" -
6."Sweet F.A." -
7."Restless" -
8."In to the Night" -
9."AC-DC" -
Bonus tracks CD =
10."Blockbuster" -
11."Need a Lot of Lovin'" -
12."Hell Raiser" -
13."Burning" -
14."The Ballroom Blitz" -
15."Rock'n'Roll Disgrace" -
@KeithTheKing Yeh, fab!
@alisonsalthouse I hear you sister!!!!!
@alisonsalthouse Yeah my mirror seems to have developed wrinkles too :-(
...Why are the members of AC/DC credited as the Authors in the description? This isn't a cover of the Touch too Much on Highway to Hell. XD that album was even made 5 years after this song was released.
Ha!!! :D
The intro sounds like "Wig Wam Bam" by Sweet.
Same songwriters!!
exactly my thoughts
@@clausstimpfig3803 - Mike Chapman wrote "WigWam Bam" and "Touch Too Much"
mmm, chapman and chinn nicked this lick from summertime blues by eddie cochran.
Check out Generating Steam Heat glam special inc cameo appearance from Alam Merrill streaming at
www.mixcloud.com/generatingsteamheat/112-gsh-170704-glam-special/
@ryujiuragami Cool!!!!
@glamrockfan22 Same songwriting team. Mike Chapman/Nikcky Chinn, so similarities start there at the source.
@ryujiuragami Power pop at its best!!!
sweet turned this one one down .glad arrows got the hit
Oh yes me too Alan my fave band needed this cos they were not well managed .
Not well managed? They were mismanaged more like it.
+Maxine Glover Alan coming to Manchester in October,gonna see.him perform at last,so excited.Wish all the boys were there 😞.
+KeithTheKing Oh my now I am being corrected by an American ha.
Oh dear am I getting corrected by an American ha ha.Going to see Alan next week,so excited but wish Jake and Paul were there.
They all looked so skinny must have been starving musicians.Still looked good and sounded brilliant though.
@piskey01 Yeah. ACDC recorded a different "Touch Too Much," same title different song. Joan Jett recorded a song titled "ACDC". It's a freakin' mess! A big ball of tangled yarn.
@LittleJohnJack The Arrows had male music critics who hated them because girl fans fancied them. So they got some very nasty reviews back in the mid 70s from a lot of British critics. The Arrows, on the surface seemed to have a good thing going, but the business side of the band - management and label - was an ugly mess. With the perpective of time and youtube clips people are starting to see that they were a very good and versatile band.
OMG. It's only Noel Fielding on the left!
Doesn't sound a thing like Summertime Blues........
Speaking of the Arrows and these sort of connections, if you think this sounds like "Summertime Blues" listen to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation"!
@fatpizzaman Their wives? LOL