| Touch the Hand | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Conway Twitty |
| Album: | The High Priest of Country Music |
| B-Side: | Don't Cry Joni |
| Released: | May 1975 |
| Recorded: | November 19, 1974 |
| Studio: | Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:22 |
| Label: | MCA 40407 |
| Producer: | Owen Bradley |
| Prev Title: | Linda on My Mind |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | Don't Cry Joni |
| Next Year: | 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."
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]
| Chart (1975) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[4] | 1 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 8 |