Touch the Hand

"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) filed a copyright infringement suit against the singer in Nashville on September 23, 1975, Peterson was properly credited.

Personnel

 * Conway Twitty — vocals
 * Harold Bradley — 6-string electric bass guitar
 * Ray Edenton — acoustic guitar
 * Johnny Gimble — fiddle
 * John Hughey — steel guitar
 * Tommy Markham — drums
 * Grady Martin — electric guitar
 * Bob Moore — bass
 * Hargus "Pig" Robbins — piano