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((Short description|1981 single by The Pointer Sisters))
((About|the Pointer Sisters song|the Eric Clapton album|Slowhand|other uses))
((Use mdy dates|date=February 2019))
((more citations needed|date=April 2009))
((Infobox song
| name       = Slow Hand
| cover      = Slowhand.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Pointer Sisters]]
| album      = [[Black & White (Pointer Sisters album)|Black & White]]
| B-side     = [[Holdin' Out for Love]]
| released   = May 1981
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = ((flat list|
* [[Soul music|Soul]]<ref>((Cite podcast|url=https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2023/06/how-the-pointer-sisters-made-harmonies-exciting|title= Yes We Can Edition|website=Hit Parade ((!)) Music History and Music Trivia|publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|last=Molanphy|first=Chris|date=June 16, 2023|access-date=July 1, 2023))</ref>
* [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]
))
| length     = 3:53
| label      = [[Planet Records|Planet]]
| writer     = ((flat list|
* Michael Clark
* [[John Bettis]]
))
| producer   = [[Richard Perry]]
| prev_title = Where Did the Time Go
| prev_year  = 1980
| next_title = What a Surprise
| next_year  = 1981
))
"'''Slow Hand'''" is a song recorded by American [[vocal group]] [[The Pointer Sisters]] for their eighth studio [[album]] ''[[Black & White (Pointer Sisters album)|Black & White]]'' (1981). The song, written by Michael Clark and [[John Bettis]], was released by the [[Planet Records|Planet]] label in May 1981 as the [[lead single]] from ''Black & White''.

==Background and impact==
Although its sultry style recalls the Pointer Sisters' first American top-ten hit, the 1978 number two hit "[[Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)|Fire]]", "Slow Hand" was not written for the group; in fact [[John Bettis]] stated that "the Pointer Sisters were the furthest [act] from [the composers'] minds."<ref>''Billboard'' vol. 93 #33 (August 22, 1981) p.</ref> However producer [[Richard Perry]] said he "knew 'Slow Hand' [would be] an instant smash [hit]<span style="font-size:50%">...</span>that<span style="font-size:50%">...</span>would recapitulate and expand on the intimacy [of] 'Fire'."<ref>''Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction Colorado)'' 13 November 1981 "The Pointer Sisters' Sound: a musical evolution" by Abe Peck  p. 16 (The Entertainer)</ref> Like "Fire"—which also featured [[Anita Pointer]] on lead—"Slow Hand" peaked at number two on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], for 3 weeks, behind "[[Endless Love (song)|Endless Love]]" by [[Diana Ross]] and [[Lionel Richie]]. "Slow Hand" reached that position in August 1981 when it also reached number seven on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs]] chart. In September 1981, the single was certified [[RIAA certification|Gold]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=pointer+sisters#search_section|title=RIAA searchable certification database: Pointer Sisters|publisher=Recording Industry Association of America|access-date=December 26, 2020))</ref> "Slow Hand" also afforded the Pointer Sisters international success, including the first appearance by the group in the top-ten on the [[UK Singles Chart]].

== Personnel ==
'''The Pointer Sisters'''
* [[Anita Pointer]] – lead vocals
* [[June Pointer]] – backing vocals
* [[Ruth Pointer]] – backing vocals

'''Musicians'''
* John Barnes – electric piano 
* [[William "Smitty" Smith]] – [[Electric organ|organ]]
* [[Paul Jackson Jr.]] – guitar
* Tim May – guitar
* [[Nathan Watts]] – bass
* [[John Robinson (drummer)|John Robinson]] – drums 
* [[Paulinho da Costa]] – percussion

==Charts==
((col-begin))
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===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
!Chart (1981)
!Peak<br>position
|-
! scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>((cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=235))</ref>
| 5
|-
! scope="row"| Canada Top Singles (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')
| 2
|-
! scope="row"| France ([[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|SNEP]])
| 55
|-
! scope="row"| Ireland ([[Irish Singles Chart]])
| 2
|-
! scope="row"| Netherlands ([[Dutch Top 40]])
| 33
|-
! scope="row"| New Zealand ([[Recorded Music NZ]])
| 6
|-
! scope="row"| South Africa ([[Springbok Radio]])<ref>((cite web|title=SA Charts 1965–March 1989|url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(P).html|access-date=September 10, 2018))</ref>
|align="center"|10
|-
! scope="row"| UK Singles ([[Official Charts Company]])<ref>((cite web|title=officialcharts.com|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17427/pointer-sisters/|website=officialcharts.com|accessdate=January 2, 2023))</ref>
| 10
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
| 2
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] ([[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']])<ref>((cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=194))</ref>
|align="center"|6
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs]] (''Billboard'')<ref>((cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=465))</ref>
| 7
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Cash Box (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>((Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19810905.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 5, 1981 |access-date=January 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603141823/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19810905.html |archive-date=June 3, 2015 |url-status=dead ))</ref>
|align="center"|2
|}
((col-2))

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (1981)
! style="text-align:center;"|Rank
|-
|Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name="aus81">((cite web|title= National Top 100 Singles for 1981 |publisher= [[Kent Music Report]] |issue= 393 |page= 7 |via= [[Imgur]] |date= 4 January 1982 |access-date=January 11, 2022 |url= https://i.imgur.com/RgsDOOc.jpg))</ref>

| style="text-align:center;"|28
|-
|Canada Top Singles (''RPM'')<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4689&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 |title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=www.collectionscanada.gc.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020235834/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4689&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 |archive-date=2012-10-20)) </ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|68
|-
|New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)<ref>((Cite web|url=http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3870|title = The Official New Zealand Music Chart))</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|20
|-
|UK Singles (Official Charts Company)
| style="text-align:center;"|100
|-
|US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>[http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1981.htm Musicoutfitters.com]</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|19
|-
|US ''Cash Box'' Top 100<ref>((Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/1981YESP.html |title=Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981 |access-date=January 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022115158/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/1981YESP.html |archive-date=October 22, 2016 |url-status=dead ))</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|5
|-
|}
((col-end))

==Del Reeves version==
The song was covered in 1981 by country singer [[Del Reeves]], whose version peaked at #53 on the [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles]] chart.

==Conway Twitty version==
((Infobox song
| name       = Slow Hand
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Conway Twitty]]
| album      = [[Southern Comfort (Conway Twitty album)|Southern Comfort]]
| B-side     = When Love Was Something Else
| released   = April 24, 1982
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Country music|Country]]
| length     = 2:56
| label      = [[Elektra Records|Elektra]]
| writer     = Michael Clark, [[John Bettis]]
| producer   = [[Jimmy Bowen]], Conway Twitty
| prev_title = [[The Clown (Conway Twitty song)|The Clown]]
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = Over Thirty (Not Over the Hill)
| next_year  = 1982
))
The song was covered in April 1982 by country singer [[Conway Twitty]] with minor lyric changes to accommodate a male singer. His version, on [[Elektra Records]], topped the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles]] chart for two weeks that June, and was his last multi-week number-one song, and his last gold record.<ref>((cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=362))</ref>

===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
!align="left"|Chart (1982)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|((singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Conway Twitty))
|-
|align="left"|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks
| 6
|}

===Year-end charts===
{|class="wikitable"
!Chart (1982)
!Position
|-
|US Hot Country Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>((cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1982/hot-country-songs|title=Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1982|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 23, 2021))</ref>
|align="center"|20
|}

==References==
((Reflist))

((The Pointer Sisters))
((Conway Twitty))
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[[Category:1981 singles]]
[[Category:1982 singles]]
[[Category:The Pointer Sisters songs]]
[[Category:Conway Twitty songs]]
[[Category:Del Reeves songs]]
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by John Bettis]]
[[Category:Songs written by Michael Clark (songwriter)]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Jimmy Bowen]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Richard Perry]]
[[Category:Elektra Records singles]]
[[Category:1981 songs]]
[[Category:Planet Records singles]]

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