# Remember When Tina Turner Covered This Dan Hill Classic in 1979?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/remember-when-tina-turner-covered-this-dan-hill-classic-in-1979/
- Published: 2026-11-10T17:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T18:42:47+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/remember-when-tina-turner-covered-this-dan-hill-classic-in-1979/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Music, World

## Key points

- Tina Turner covered Dan Hill’s song on her 1979 album *Rough*.
- The cover did not become a hit.
- Hill wrote the song at 19 while pursuing someone he loved.

## Summary

Tina Turner recorded a version of Dan Hill’s “Sometimes When We Touch” for her 1979 album *Rough*, though it did not become a hit. The song was Hill’s first hit and remains his most successful single; Turner later found greater solo success with “Let’s Stay Together” in 1983, which helped launch the era of *Private Dancer*.

Hill wrote the song with Barry Mann and released it in 1977 on *Longer Fuse*, when he was 19. He said he wrote it while falling in love with someone who did not want an exclusive relationship, hoping to get her attention. The song has since been covered by several artists, and Dolly Parton called it her favourite song she had not written in 2022.

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