"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."

"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
StudioBradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee
GenreCountry
Length3:22
LabelMCA
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)

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

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Chart performance

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Chart (1975) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[4] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 8

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Last Cowboy Song Lyrics | is this the Best Cowboy Song ever?". All-about-vinylrecords.com.
  2. ^ "RolandNote.com: The Ultimate Country Music Database". Rolandnote.com. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  3. ^ The Conway Twitty Collection (Media notes). Conway Twitty. Universal City, California: MCA Records. MCAD4-11095.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 361.