Touch (1980s band)

The band consists of Mark Mangold (songwriter and keyboards), Glen Kithcart (drums), Craig Brooks (guitars), and Doug Howard.

In the early 1970s, Mark Mangold formed the keyboard-driven hard-rock band American Tears with bassist Gary Sonny and drummer Tommy Gunn before signing with Columbia Records.

In 1977, the band released their final album on Columbia, Powerhouse, which featured new members drummer Glen Kithcart, guitarist Craig Brooks, and bassist Kirk Powers.

"Don't You Know What Love Is" was played on AOR radio stations in the USA during the early 80s and did particularly well on a specialist Melody Maker chart in Great Britain.

[9] Mark Mangold continued to write and record with and for other artists, with one of his earliest collaborators being a then-relatively unknown musician named Michael Bolton.

Doug Howard also continued to perform, record and write with acts and artists such as Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winter, Stun Leer, and Roy Buchanan as well as a member of Rundgren's Utopia In 2014, Mangold was asked to play Touch songs with a band assembled by the Firefest Festival, including Swedish singer Göran Edman as the lead vocals along with other Swedish musicians.