Slow Hand

Recorded for the Pointer Sisters’ 1981 album Black & White, with Richard Perry producing and the sessions centered at Studio 55 in Los Angeles. Anita Pointer sang lead on the track, and the record was issued on Planet Records. Released in 1981 as the lead single from Black & White, it became one of the group’s biggest pop hits and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. Billboard’s contemporary coverage identified Richard Perry as producer and treated it as a major crossover single. The song remains one of the Pointer Sisters’ signature recordings and is still associated with their pop breakthrough era. It was later covered by Conway Twitty, whose version became a major country hit, extending the song’s reach beyond pop audiences.