States and number ten in Canada. Over 100 performers, including Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, and Bing Crosby have recorded "Put Your Hand in the Hand". MacLellan released a second album, If It's Alright with You, in 1977. In 1979, he recorded Gene and Marty, an album of gospel songs, with his fellow Prince Edward Islander Marty Reno. From 1980 until his death in 1995, MacLellan performed only in small noncommercial venues such as churches, prisons and nursing homes. He was active in "Cons for Christ", a Christian organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of prison inmates in Canada. Mental health issues and death MacLellan suffered depression throughout his life. During his later years, his condition worsened, leading to hospitalization at Prince County Hospital in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Shortly after his release from the hospital, MacLellan died by suicide at his home in Summerside, on January 19, 1995. Posthumous awards and tributes MacLellan was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1996 he was given the East Coast Music Association's Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award. Upon hearing of MacLellan's passing, Ron Hynes sat down at his piano and wrote the song "Godspeed" in 10 minutes, as described in the Ron Hynes biography One Man Grand Band [p 149-150], by Harvey Sawler. In 1995, the Canadian folk singer John Gracie released a tribute album entitled A Gene MacLellan Tribute. (#36 in Canada) In 2017, MacLellan's daughter Catherine MacLellan presented a show entitled If It's Alright with You – The Life and Music of My Father, Gene MacLellan that was described as "part theatre, part Island music history lesson, and part mental-health awareness campaign". Her album If It's Alright with You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan was released on June 30, 2017, by True North Records. She believes that her father would appreciate the tribute. "He would be happy to know his songs continue on, being remembered and given a new spark," she said. "It’s a testament to what a young guy from very humble beginnings can do." In 2018, a documentary about MacLellan's life, music and struggle with mental illness, The Song and the Sorrow, was released. Discography Albums Singles References External links Collections Canada: Gene MacLellan profile 1938 births 1995 deaths 1995 suicides 20th-century Canadian male singers Anglophone Quebec people Canadian country singer-songwriters Canadian people of Scottish descent Juno Award for Songwriter of the