Album: Made in America (1981)

Charted: 16

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• Play us a song we can slow dance on
  We want to hold each other
  Play us a groove so we hardly move
  Just let our hearts beat together
  Oh baby, 'cause it feels so good
  When we're close like this
  Whisper is my ear and let me steal a kiss
  
  Come on and touch me
  When we're dancing
  You know you've got that loving touch
  (Loving touch)
  Touch me when we're dancing
  I want to feel you when I'm falling in love
  
  Tonight's the night and it feels so right
  My heart is saying it to me
  You're the one I've waited for so long
  So let your love flow through me
  Oh baby, 'cause it feels so good
  Just to be this close
  You've got me up so high
  I could fly coast to coast
  
  Come on and touch me
  When we're dancing
  You know you've got that loving touch
  (Loving touch)
  Touch me when we're dancing
  I want to feel you when I'm falling in love
  
  Touch me when we're dancing
  You know you've got that loving touch
  (Loving touch)
  Touch me when we're dancing
  I want to feel you when I'm falling in love
  Touch me when we're dancing
  You know you've got that loving touch
  (Loving touch)
  Touch me when we're dancing Writer/s: J. L. WALLACE, KENNETH E. BELL, TERRY SKINNER
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Donna from FloridaJerry(JL)was ALWAYS an excellent song writer and musician.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 14th 1981, "Touch Me When We're Dancing" by the Carpenters entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #76; and on July 26th it peaked at #16 (for 4 weeks) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
  And on August 16th, 1981 it reached #1 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart; it was the duo's fifteenth and last #1 on the Adult chart...
  Exactly eleven years earlier on June 14th, 1970 "(They Long To Be) Close To You" by the duo entered the Top 100 and would become the first of their three #1 records on the Top 100...
  R.I.P. Karen (1950 - 1983) and Richard will celebrate his 68th birthday this coming October 15th, 2014.
• Steve from Whittier, CaThe duo also suffered, sadly, due to their image..
  
  
  July 9,2010.
• Jim from Dover, Deok, so I guess it's been established that these 2 can really put together a mood in music. I'm going to play a song we're going to slow dance on because our hearts have always beat together. We've waited oh so long for "our" moment and when it happens, just all of you enjoy the fireworks. We will. That special someone is getting closer all the time and before you know it, We've Only Just Begun....again! And this time, we'll get it right. ILY

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