Touch the Hand

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"Touch the Hand"
Single by Conway Twitty
from the album The High Priest of Country Music
B-side "Don't Cry Joni"
ReleasedMay 1975
RecordedNovember 19, 1974
Studio Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length3:22
Label MCA
40407
Songwriter(s) Ron Peterson, Conway Twitty
Producer(s) Owen Bradley
Conway Twitty singles chronology
"Linda on My Mind"
(1975)
"Touch the Hand"
(1975)
"Don't Cry Joni"
(1975)

"Touch the Hand" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Conway Twitty. It was released in August 1975 as the first single from the album The High Priest of Country Music . A ballad that became one of his 41 Billboard magazine No. 1 songs (all but one of them on the Hot Country Singles charts), the song represented one half of a double-sided hit for Twitty in 1975. The other side was "Don't Cry Joni."

Contents

Initially, Twitty claimed to have written Touch the Hand. But after Ron Peterson (twice president of the Nashville Songwriters Association) [1] filed a copyright infringement suit against the singer in Nashville on September 23, 1975, Peterson was properly credited. [2]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1975)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles [4] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks8

See also

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