Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: #45: ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand’- Ocean. March 13, 1971.
- Single: ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand’- Ocean
- Record Company- Kama Sutra
- Genre: Pop Gospel
- Written by Gene MacLeilian
- Time: 2:52
- B-side:’Tear Down The Fences’
- Album- Put Your Hand In The Hand
- Grade: A
- Peaked at # 2 14 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
Ocean was a pop band from London, Ontario, Canada. They placed four singles in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971-1972 but their only Top 40 hit was their first one ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand’ – which just missed the top of the charts peaking at #2. The song was first recorded by another Canadian- Anne Murray. ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand’ did hit #1 in Norway and New Zealand.
It was huge when I was a little kid in Ontario. I guess this, ‘Godspell’ and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ were in essence the start of the Christian Rock genre of music.