Do You Wanna Touch Me

"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. The song represented something of a departure from the "trademark" of the Glitter sound. The song was also used in the Runaways drama film of the same name.

"Do You Wanna Touch Me?"
Single by Gary Glitter
from the 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
Songwriter(s)	Gary Glitter Mike Leander
Producer(s)	Mike Leander
Gary Glitter singles chronology
"I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)" (1972) "Do You Wanna Touch Me?" (1973) "Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again" (1973)

Joan Jett version

"Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"
Single by Joan Jett
from the album Bad Reputation
B-side	"Victim of Circumstance"
Released	July 23, 1982 (1982-07-23)
Genre	Glam rock
Length	3:48 (album version) 3:24 (single version)
Label	Boardwalk
Songwriter(s)	Gary Glitter Mike Leander
Producer(s)	Kenny Laguna Ritchie Cordell
Joan Jett singles chronology
"Crimson and Clover" (1982) "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" (1982) "Nag" (1982)
Music video
"Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" on YouTube

"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 the 2000 episode of Freaks and Geeks titled "We've Got Spirit" and 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 The commercial was withdrawn when the company learned that Glitter, now a convicted sex offender, had written the song.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

• 7" and 12" vinyl^[4]

1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
2. "Victim of Circumstance"  – 2:54

• US 12" vinyl promo^[5]

1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:39
2. "Summertime Blues"  – 2:23

• Australian and New Zealand 12" vinyl^[6]

1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
2. "Victim of Circumstance"  – 2:54
3. "Summertime Blues"  – 2:16

• Brazilian and Greek 7" vinyl^[7]

1. "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)"  – 3:24
2. "Bad Reputation"  – 2:48

• Ireland, Spain and United Kingdom 7" vinyl^[8]

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")

• Mexican 7" vinyl^[9]

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]

• Joan Jett – vocals, guitar, backing vocals
• Gary Glitter – writer
• Mike Leander – writer
• Lea Hart – guitar, backing vocals
• Kenny Laguna – piano, backing vocals, producer
• John Earle – saxophone
• Paul Simmons – drums, backing vocals
• Jeff Peters – bass, backing vocals
• Ritchie Cordell – backing vocals, producer
• John Earle – saxophone
• Mark Dodson – engineer, associate producer
• Butch Yates – assistant engineer
• Malcolm Davis – mastering

Chart performance

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 Rock 21 US Cash Box Top 100 29

Year-end charts Chart (1982) Rank Canada ^[13] 73 US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)^[14] 123

Release history

Region	Date	Formats(s)	Label(s)	Ref(s).
United States	July 23, 1982 (1982-07-23)	Adult rock	Boardwalk	^[15]

Glee cover controversy

In 2011, the song was covered by Gwyneth Paltrow and other cast members for season 2 episode 15 "Sexy" of the musical television series Glee, Holly Holliday. 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 Glee: The Music, Volume 5 does not therefore include the song, but replaces it with the cover of "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band.

Cover by the Cure

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

See also

• "Oh Yeah!", a Green Day song that samples Jett's version of the song.

References

1. "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts". Billboard.
2. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1982-10-09. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
3. "Celebrity | Yahoo News UK". Uk.news.launch.yahoo.com. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
4. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co. 1982. NB-11-150-7.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
5. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co. 1982. NB-11-150-7.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
6. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (Australian 12-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Liberation Records. 1982. LMD 201.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
7. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (Greek 7-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Epic Records. 1982. EPC A 2985.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
8. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (United Kingdom 7-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Epic Records. 1982. EPC A2674.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
9. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (Mexican 7-inch vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Columbia Records. 1982. K-30,270.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
10. Bad Reputation (Vinyl liner notes). Joan Jett. The Boardwalk Entertainment Co. 1981. NB1 33251.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
11. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1982-10-09. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
12. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
13. . collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
14. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
15. "National Music Formats: Added This Week". Radio & Records. No. 442. July 23, 1982. p. 58.
16. "Gwyneth Paltrow in Gary Glitter controversy over Glee". Telegraph. 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
17. "The Cure concerts 1985". Cure-concerts.de. Retrieved 2016-10-08.

External links

• Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch Me on YouTube
• Do You Wanna Touch Me at Discogs (list of releases)