Ocean (band)

{{Short description|Canadian gospel/soft rock band}}

{{distinguish|text=The Ocean (band), a heavy metal band formed in 2000}}

{{distinguish|text=Oceán, a Czech synth-pop band}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Ocean

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| origin = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| genre = Gospel rock, soft rock, Christian music

| years_active = {{start date|1970}}–{{end date|1975}}

| label = Yorkville, Kama Sutra

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| past_members = *Greg Brown

  • Jeff Jones
  • Janice Morgan
  • Dave Tamblyn
  • Chuck Slater

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Ocean was a Canadian gospel/soft rock band formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario. They are best known for their 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand". The single peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1971-05-01|title=The Hot 100 Chart|website=Billboard.com|access-date=1 October 2021}} and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.{{cite book|first= Joel |last= Whitburn |author-link= Joel Whitburn |year= 1993 |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 |publisher= Record Research |page=178}}

"Put Your Hand in the Hand" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, in 2006.{{cite web|url=https://www.cshf.ca/song/put-your-hand-in-the-hand/|title=Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame: Put Your Hand in the Hand|access-date=7 April 2019}}

Background

Ocean consisted of Greg Brown (vocals, keyboard), Jeff Jones (bass, vocals), Janice Morgan (guitar, vocals), Dave Tamblyn (guitar), and Chuck Slater (drums).{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1849}} Dave Tamblyn had previously been in the group Natural Gas.Music Metason - [https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Dave%20Tamblyn ArtistInfo, Dave Tamblyn]

Career

They recorded their debut album, Put Your Hand in the Hand, in Toronto in 1970. The album, originally released on the Yorkville label in Canada, contained eight songs, including covers of songs by Robbie Robertson and Gene MacLellan. The album was picked up in the U.S. by the Kama Sutra label, which also released the band's second album, Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance, in both the U.S. and Canada.

Ocean managed additional hits in Canada with the songs "We've Got a Dream" and "One More Chance", both written by the British songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, but they failed to make any further impact in the U.S., and the group disbanded in 1975 after having released two albums.{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1591185 |title=Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand CD Album Canada |website=Cduniverse.com |date=2005-07-26 |access-date=2015-08-25}}{{cite web|url=https://muskmellon.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/put-your-hand-in-the-hand-45-by-ocean/|title=Put Your Hand In The Hand '45' by Ocean|author=Bowling, David|website=Muskmellon|date=31 August 2012 |access-date=31 August 2012}}

Later years

Chuck Slater died by his own hand in 1987.{{Cite web|url=https://www.canadianbands.com/Ocean.html|title=Canadian Bands.com - Ocean|website=Canadianbands.com|access-date=1 October 2021}}

Discography

=Albums=

class="wikitable"
rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Album

! colspan="2"| Chart Positions

style="width:50px;"| CAN

! style="width:50px;"| US

1971

| Put Your Hand in the Hand

| style="text-align:center;"| 47

| style="text-align:center;"| 60

1972

| Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| —

=Singles=

class="wikitable"
rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="5"| Chart Positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

style="width:45px;"| CAN

! style="width:45px;"| CAN AC

! style="width:45px;"| CAN Country

! style="width:45px;"| US
{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Top Pop Singles 1955–2010|publisher=Record Research, Inc|page=659|year=2011|isbn=978-0-89820-188-8}}

! style="width:45px;"| US AC

rowspan="3"| 1971

| "Put Your Hand in the Hand"

| style="text-align:center;"| 10

| style="text-align:center;"| 6

| style="text-align:center;"| 34

| style="text-align:Center;"| 2

| style="text-align:center;"| 4

| rowspan="3"| Put Your Hand in the Hand

"Deep Enough for Me"{{cite magazine|author=Ritchie Yorke|title=Content legislation boon for local product|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47-IA17|date=17 July 1971|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=47–|issn=0006-2510}}

| style="text-align:center;"| 54

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 73

| style="text-align:center;"| —

"We Got a Dream"

| style="text-align:center;"| 47

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 82

| style="text-align:center;"| 37

rowspan="2"| 1972

| "Make the Sun Shine"

| style="text-align:center;"| 75

| style="text-align:center;"| 19

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| rowspan="2"| Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance

"One More Chance"

| style="text-align:center;"| 12

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 76

| style="text-align:center;"| 30

1973

| "I Have a Following"

| style="text-align:center;"| 83

| style="text-align:center;"| —

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| {{n/a|non-album single}}

References

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