Touch the Hand
1975 single by Conway Twitty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"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."
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"Touch the Hand" | ||||
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Single by Conway Twitty | ||||
from the album The High Priest of Country Music | ||||
B-side | "Don't Cry Joni" | |||
Released | May 1975 | |||
Recorded | November 19, 1974 Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:22 | |||
Label | MCA 40407 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ron Peterson, Conway Twitty | |||
Producer(s) | Owen Bradley | |||
Conway Twitty singles chronology | ||||
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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]