"Contact" is a 1978 disco single by

Edwin Starr Charles Edwin Hatcher (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003), known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American singer and songwriter. Starr was famous for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number-on ...

. The hook line is in the

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, "Eye to eye, contact". The single was #1 on the disco chart for one week, early in 1979. It also crossed over to the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming his highest charting pop single in seven years, peaking at #65. "Contact" also made the Top 20 on the

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, peaking at #13. The song found more success in the UK, where it was a Top Ten hit, peaking at #6, in early 1979 (it would also earn Edwin a silver disc for sales in excess of 250,000 copies, along with the very first silver 12" award in recognition of sales over 100,000 copies). It proved to be his second best performance on the UK Charts, beaten only by his #3 smash "

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" in 1970. His follow-up single, " H.A.P.P.Y. Radio", was also a UK hit, making it to #9 in mid-1979.

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