This song is on Tommy's 1976 album "In Touch" on the Fantasy label. It also is on Tommy's 2015 CD "Discography: Deals & Demos 74-92". (AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione).... "Tommy James' classic In Touch album is significant on many levels, first and foremost that it is an entertaining and very listenable recording by a major '60s artist. The second is that five years before Joan Jett would be produced by Kenny Laguna and Ritchie Cordell, they recorded what would become a Joan Jett classic with Tommy James, Gary Glitter's "(Do You Wanna) Touch Me." Also of note is the reuniting of James with drummer Peter Lucia of the Shondells. He doesn't play drums on this, leaving that to Mountain/Hendrix session man Allan Schwartzberg, Al Christopher, Steve Nelson, and Larry Lynch, but it's a nice nostalgic touch to have the former Hog Heaven musician on backing vocals, assisting in the great production and co-writing "Calico" with James. James ends side one with the very Elvis Presley-like "Treat Me Nice," and side two with his original "Comin' Down," which shows Burton Cummings who came first. The Guess Who's lead vocalist hit this same year with "Stand Tall," and "Comin' Down" would have been the perfect follow-up for Cummings. Conversely, had James re-released "Tighter Tighter" from this album as the follow-up to "Three Times in Love" in 1980, it would have been perfect timing as well. Producer Ritchie Cordell was one of four songwriters who came up with "Mony Mony," one of the other three being James. James and Cordell reunite to compose "One Track Mind," and like the Peter Lucia co-write, "Calico," it is excellent. Varese Saraband compiled portions of In Touch and its Jeff Barry-produced follow-up, Midnight Rider, for a compilation entitled Tighter, Tighter, leaving off a superb James folk number, "The Magician," and a stellar rendition of the Chinn/Chapman British hit "Devil Gate Drive." In Touch holds up on its own and should have been re-released with additional (and not fewer) tracks. "The Magician" has a Gordon Lightfoot slant with sentiment from "Sweet Cherry Wine." With horns from Tower of Power, a remix from Jimmy Iovine, and James at the peak of his powers, Fantasy had the hit potential that Creedence Clearwater brought them. Not to be lost in any of this is the magnificent version of "Tighter Tighter," the hit Bob King and James wrote for "Alive 'N Kickin'." As a cohesive and solid album, this may be the finest by Tommy James outside of a greatest-hits set. His voice, performance, song selection, and production are all top-notch. It's simply great."
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