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1. Grab your parachute pants and meet me in 1990 because it's Hammer time. What is this smash song that won Grammys for Best R&B/Soul Song and Best Rap Solo?
2. Lady Sings the Blues, not hardly. What supreme diva scored a number one hit on the US Billboard Top 100 in 1973 with the song "Touch Me in the Morning"?
3. All right, let's keep the hits coming. Legendary rockers The Grateful Dead surprisingly had only one US Billboard Hot 100 top ten song. What tune was performed live by the Dead for years before being released on their 1987 album "In the Dark"?
4. Let's turn the heat up now. "Touch My Body" was this artist's 18th Billboard Hot 100 number one song. Who is the diva with the five octave voice who wrote and recorded "Touch My Body" in 2008?
5. I'm out of touch, you say. No, you are out of touch. Wait a minute "Out of Touch" was also the sixth US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit for what duo that also brought you "Maneater" and "Kiss is on My Lips"?
6. Man, those 70s were a crazy time. What ballad written by Dan Hill rose to number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, despite sporting emasculating lyrics such as "I want to hold you till the fear in me subsides"?
7. Speaking of hits by power groups, what band with a biblical name had their only US Billboard Hot 100 number one song with 1986's "Invisible Touch"?
8. Not all love songs end happily, sometimes they contain lyrics like "you make me weep, I want to die" instead. What heart wrenching song by Journey grew from the real pain of lead singer Steve Perry losing a girlfriend to a rival?
9. Now we move to a mega-hit for the iconic 1960s band The Doors. "Touch Me" was a US Cashbox Number One song in 1969 and featured a brassy sound unusual for a Doors tune. Originally titled "Hit Me", what reason IS NOT speculated as the reason for the change in title?
10. Hey ho, no playlist of touching songs is complete without what 1991 power ballad from the Australian group The Divinyls?
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