Anne Murray - Put Your Hand In the Hand (Dec 13,1971)(Stereo)

"Put Your Hand in the Hand" is a gospel pop song composed by Gene MacLellan and first recorded by Canadian singer Anne Murray from her third studio album Honey, Wheat and Laughter.

It became a hit single for the Canadian band Ocean, released as their debut single and title track to their debut album. The song peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, kept from No. 1 by "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night.The song also reached No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart.It went on to become 22nd best-seller of 1971.

After MacLellan's suicide in 1995, his friend and fellow Atlantic Canadian musician Ron Hynes wrote the song "Godspeed" as a tribute, the lyrics for which reference the title of this song.

The song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.A remix from the same year adds an instrumental, which occurs between the second chorus and the second verse, as well as a repeat of the chorus and a final instrumentalist chorus, that ends without the fade.

[toddcanton]

This is the Anne I fell in love with oh so many years ago.

[dr.migilitoloveless]

I've been in love with Anne Murray since I was 13 back in 1970.

[hectorsoriano]

CLASSIC, i heard this first time by Ocean, but by Anne is better