Hold My Hand (Hootie & the Blowfish song)

"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
LabelAtlantic
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 first album, Cracked Rear View (1994). 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 by Atlantic Records, "Hold My Hand" charted at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song includes a backing vocal from David Crosby.