Compared to its contemporaries, “Magic Touch” is pretty great. Lush harmonies counterpointed against a lead singer that is moved by something (if not magic, then maybe Eisenhower). But compared to “Only You” and “The Great Pretender”, this seems like a let down. Those songs embody the time, whereas “Magic Touch” just seems like grist for the mill. All of these three are better than their two number ones that followed, but still after such a promising opening... this feels like they didn’t know of anything new to do, so they went back and did the same old thing.
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