Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand (1971 - HQ) (Original Live Audio)

This video has been restored and cleaned up so you can enjoy it more than the distorted VH-1 copy posted elsewhere on YouTube. The audio is also original, as the song was performed live here. I have not redubbed the audio with the released (studio) version of the song. The song reached #2 on U.S. Charts in April 1971.

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:

Put Your Hand In The Hand (G. MacLellan/Beechwood Music Corp/Kama Sutra)

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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[TRHclub]

may have been a one hit wonder...but most little kids know this song...if not it needs to be re-done.

[DancingQueen1918]

Love this song.

[bigcg98]

Just wait...when YOU are 50, you'll be laughing at how stupid and silly all the fashions and hairstyles were in the 2010's! By the way...people all wore their hair straight in the 70's and that came back into style around the 1990's and STILL won't die.

[Licmycat]

LuV it, luV it!

[Philip Gipson]

That song is actually very catchy and inspirational.

[kathy matthews]

he is with burton cummings/the guess who...as the carpet frogs..how kool is that!



[kathy matthews]

the bass player is with burton cummings band, the guess who,,,...the carpet frogs

[VinnyLLL]

They were actually a two-hit wonder, though the second hit was short-lived ('One More Chance').

There is an interesting interview on CBC Radio with the surviving members of Ocean on Easter Sunday 2011 (on the Sunday Morning Show with Michael Enright, the segment entitled 'Some Kind of Magic'). If you go to the CBC.ca website and search for it, it will show up.

[Tiger62ish]

What a great video...back in the old days most groups lip-synched or did only a live vocal with a backing track, so it's cool to see an actual performance of this classic song. And I see through the comments here that a few people know about Jeff Jones,the bass player...from Rush to Ocean to Red Rider...amazing man!

[soundgarden700]

UnaWorld; What is your point could you please be more specific I'm not referring to today's lost and miss-guided 21st century Pop Culture.

[UnaWorld]

Yeah, what's up with all those weird boys not having their asses hanging out of their pants? And why is that girl showing some kind of talent on video instead of just f---ing? Seems like a lot of effort to get attention and fame. So bizarre.

[MIKECNW]

I would of never guessed it.

BTW when was Rush officially founded?