Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand (1971) (HQ - Restored)

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Ocean is another One-Hit Wonder from the 70's. The song reached #2 on U.S. Charts in April, 1971. This video has been restored and cleaned up as much as I could so you can enjoy it more than the badly distorted VH-1 copy posted elsewhere on YouTube.

Information about the band from Wikipedia:

Ocean was a gospel rock band formed in 1970 in London, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their million-selling 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand", penned by Gene MacLellan. The gramophone record sold over one million copies and received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on 3 May 1971.Ocean consisted of Greg Brown (vocals, keyboard), Jeff Jones (bass, vocals), Janice Brown (guitar, vocals), Dave Tamblyn (guitar), and Chuck Slater (drums). The album was recorded in Toronto in 1970 and originally released on the highly collectable Yorkville label in Canada. The album contained eight songs written by such notables as Robbie Robertson and Gene MacLellan. The album was picked up in the U.S. by the Kama Sutra label that also released the band's second album in both the U.S. and Canada. Ocean managed another hit in Canada with the song "I've Got a Dream" written by the British songwriting team of Cook and Greenway, but they failed to make any impact in the U.S. and disbanded in 1975 after only two albums.

Lyrics (C) 1970 Beechwood Music Corp/Kama Sutra
(G. MacLellan)

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from-a Gallilee.

Ev'ry time I look into the Holy Book I want to tremble (tremble)
When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple (temple)
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas
Than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be.

So put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By putting your hand in the hand of the man from-a Gallilee.

My mama taught me how to pray before I reached the age of seven
She said, "There'll come a time when there'll probably be room in heaven"
But I'm feeling kinda of guilty 'bout the number of times
To do what we must do
Oh we forget what he said when we figured that he'd still make room

(So, you gotta)

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Gallilee

(everybody come along)

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water (stilled the water)
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea (calmed the sea)
Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently
By putting your hand in the hand of the man from Gallilee.

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[SPECKLES49]

more people should listen to this song!

[curvy71]

to think this song came out the year i was born

[petetwentytwo]

That's a very good Restoration job you've done on this Tape.Haven't heard this song for a while.

[scottyhoffo1]

...this makes me wish I'd have been born a lot earlier! :)

Great job with restoring this cool video! I've been anxiously awaiting a better upload than the older one for a long time now. Thanks!

[jbranstetter04]

I want the striped suit the man is wearing. I'm going to call the Men's Warehouse now before they are sold out.

[onlyme114]

Brings back memories of sitting around in the dorm at HHA picking the guitar and singing this song.( Remember Betsy ? ) Not to often does a gospel song go gold on pop charts...not often enough sadly. I love it.

[jamesspeculator]

It is always good when a group has multiple vocalists. That concept seems to have peaked in the 1960s and 1970s.

[UndercoverObserver]

I had this 45 when it was new. Wow the memories. The real one hit wonder is where that 45 is now. Thanks for posting this

[groofoot]

When I was in kindergarten (1976-77 school year) our gym teacher, Mr. Keller, would put this record on and tell us to twirl hula hoops to it. We laughed and called him a nerd and threw our hula hoops at him.

[MrMikeb1958]

2 people were too busy having their hand on my gland instead....