"Touch Me" is a rock composition written by Robby Krieger, recorded by The Doors for their fourth studio album The Soft Parade and released as a single in December 1968. The song became one of The Doors' biggest commercial successes, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Cashbox Top 100 in early 1969, making it the band's third and final American chart-topping single. The composition is notable for its incorporation of brass and orchestral elements, a significant departure from The Doors' established sound. Producer Paul Rothchild had suggested the orchestral concept after studying similar experimental approaches by other groups of the era, and while Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek embraced the direction, Jim Morrison declined to use orchestral accompaniment on his own songs for the album. The arrangement prominently features tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy, whose playing adds a jazz-influenced dimension to the track. The Soft Parade was the only Doors album to employ strings and brass, and "Touch Me" stands as the most commercially successful product of that experiment, even as critics attacked the expanded instrumentation as a compromise of the band's musical identity. Krieger has cited the song alongside "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," and "Love Her Madly" as one of his most enduring compositions from his career with The Doors.
