"Walk Hand in Hand" is a popular

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by Johnny Cowell, published in

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. The biggest-selling version recorded of the song was sung by Tony Martin, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the

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''Billboard'' chart in 1956.Tony Martin, "Walk Hand in Hand"
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, whose version hit number 54 on the chart, and by

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, whose version reached number 13 on the UK chart. A later recording by

Gerry & The Pacemakers Gerry and the Pacemakers were an English beat music, beat group prominent in the 1960s Beat music, Merseybeat scene. In common with the Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein and recorded by George Martin. Their early ...

reached number 29 on the UK chart, number 10 in Canada, and "bubbled under" at number 103 on the ''Billboard'' chart at the end of 1965.

Recorded versions

* Tony Martin (1956) *

(1956) *

(1965) * Engelbert Humperdinck (1967) *

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(1995)

References

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