"Your Personal Touch" is a 1985 post-disco

Post-disco

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/dance-pop

Dance-pop

Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

 song recorded by American

United States

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 R&B singer Evelyn "Champagne" King

Evelyn King (singer)

Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."-Biography:...

. The song, written by Allen George and Fred McFarlane, was released in 1985 by RCA Victor.

The song is also included in her 1985 album A Long Time Coming

A Long Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come)

A Long Time Coming A Long Time Coming A Long Time Coming (also known as A Long Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come) is an album by Evelyn King. It includes the hit singles "Slow Down," "High Horse" and "Your Personal Touch."-Track listing:...

.

Although "Your Personal Touch" did not top the charts, it was a moderate success since Love Come Down

Love Come Down

"Love Come Down" is a hit single by Evelyn "Champagne" King. It was produced by Morrie Brown and written by Kashif. "Love Come Down" was the first single culled from her multi-platinum, number-one R&B album, Get Loose . In the U.S., it reached number one on the R&B and dance charts and number...

 era. Your Personal Touch scored in the Billboard

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 R&B

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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 and Dance

Hot Dance Club Play

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 charts reaching #9 and #5, respectively.

1985 releases

12" vinyl

• US: RCA Victor / PW-14202

7" vinyl

• UK: RCA Records / PB 49915

Personnel

• Performer: Evelyn King
• Producer: Allen George
• Producer: Fred McFarlane
• Producer: Jimmy Douglass
• Arranged, mixed by Allen George and Fred McFarlane for Terrible Two Productions

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
US Billboard Black Singles Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	#9
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes...	#48
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	#5
Chart (1986)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	#86