Diamond's first regular album release to sell in substantial numbers,
Touching You, Touching Me contains the gold Top Ten single "Holly Holy," and a
Diamond composition, but is mostly notable for its covers of standards by other songwriters: "Everybody's Talkin'," "Mr. Bojangles," "Both Sides Now," and the chart entry "Until It's Time for You to Go." These helped signal that
Diamond was thinking of himself less as a Brill Building hack than as a peer of
Fred Neil,
Jerry Jeff Walker,
Joni Mitchell, and
Buffy Sainte-Marie. ~ William Ruhlmann