Please Don't Touch (song)

Single infobox
Name = Please Don't Touch


Artist = Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
from Album =
B-side = "Growl" (Johnny Kidd/Guy Robinson)
Released = May 8 1959 (UK)
Format = 7"
Recorded = Abbey Road: 18 April 1959
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = HMV POP 615 (UK)
Writer = Johnny Kidd
Guy Robinson
Producer = Walter J. Ridley
Chart position = * #25 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single =
This single = "Please Don't Touch"
(1959)
Next single = "If You Were The Only Girl In The World"
(1959)

Please Don't Touch is the debut single by English rock and roll group Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, released in 1959 reaching number 25 on the UK singles charts.

Personnel

*Johnny Kidd – vocals
*Mike West, Tom Brown – backing vocals
*Alan Caddy – lead guitar
*Tony Doherty – rhythm guitar
*Johnny Gordon – bass
*Ken McKay – drums. McKay was replaced during the session by Don Toye.

Cover Versions

In 1980 Lemmy chose to record the song as the A-side of the Headgirl (Motörhead and Girlschool collaboration) "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" EP. [cite journal |quotes= |last=Burridge |first=Alan |authorlink=Alan Burridge (writer) |coauthors= |year=1991 |month=April |title=Motörhead |journal=Record Collector |volume= |issue=140 |pages=19 |id= |url= |accessdate= ] [Kilmister, Ian and Garza, Janiss "White Line Fever" (2002) — Simon & Schuster pp. 126,143-144 ISBN 0-684-85868-1.]

Brian Setzer, The Stray Cats, The Meteors, Hellbillys, and Throw Rag have also recorded covers of the song.Fact|date=September 2007

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