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"Hold My Hand"
Single by Hootie & the Blowfish
from the album Cracked Rear View
B-side" I Go Blind"
ReleasedJuly 18, 1994
Genre
Length4:15
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Don Gehman
Hootie & the Blowfish singles chronology
"Hold My Hand"
(1994) 		" Let Her Cry"
(1994)
Music video
"Hold My Hand” on YouTube

"Hold My Hand" is the debut single of the American alternative rock band Hootie & the Blowfish from their album Cracked Rear View. All four of the band members ( Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim Sonefeld) wrote the song sometime in 1989, and it was released on a self-titled cassette EP the year after. Released in July 1994, "Hold My Hand" charted at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song includes a backing vocal from David Crosby. [6]

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that the song "has a singalong chorus that epitomizes the band's good-times vibes." [7]

Chart performance

"Hold My Hand" peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [8] and number six on Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. [9] It ended the year at number 22 on the Billboard year-end chart for 1995. [10]

Music video

The music video was directed by Adolfo Doring.[ citation needed]

Charts

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States July 18, 1994 Radio Atlantic [ citation needed]
United Kingdom February 13, 1995
  • CD
  • cassette
 [22]

References

  1. ^ Jacklin, Ben. "Hearing New Heights: Hootie and the Blowfish". Immersive Audio Album. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  2. ^ Moore, Dan (July 13, 2012). "Toward a Taxonomy of '90s Pop Songs You Kind of Remember". The Riverfront Times. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  3. ^ Harrington, Jim (June 30, 2019). "Hootie and the Blowfish are still proving hipsters wrong in 2019". The Mercury News. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  4. ^ Caramanica, Jon (June 6, 2019). "Hootie & the Blowfish, Great American Rock Band (Yes, Really)". The New York Times. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  5. ^ Wood, Mikael (November 5, 2019). "Review: Hootie & the Blowfish were pretty good after all". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  6. ^ Cracked Rear View (CD insert). Hootie & the Blowfish. Atlantic Records. 1994. 82613.{{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)
  7. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Cracked Rear View review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
  8. ^ a b "Hootie the Blowfish Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
  9. ^ a b "Hootie the Blowfish Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
  10. ^ a b "Billboard Top 100 – 1995". Billboardtop100of.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 26 Feb 1995". ARIA. Retrieved December 13, 2016 – via Imgur.
  12. ^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 2620." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  13. ^ " Hootie & the Blowfish – Hold My Hand". Top 40 Singles.
  14. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  15. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  16. ^ "Hootie the Blowfish Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  17. ^ "Hootie the Blowfish Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  18. ^ "Hootie the Blowfish Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  19. ^ "The Year in Music: Hot Album Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 52. December 24, 1995. p. YE-62.
  20. ^ "The Year in Music: Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 51. December 23, 1995. p. YE-80. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
  21. ^ "The Year in Music 1995: Top 40/Mainstream Top Titles". Airplay Monitor. Vol. 3, no. 51. December 15, 1995. p. 8.
  22. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. February 11, 1995. p. 27.
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