Events

• January 3
  • Davy Jones
    Davy Jones (actor)
    David Thomas "Davy" Jones is an English rock singer-songwriter and actor best known as a member of the Monkees.-Early life:...
    
     announces he is leaving the Monkees
    The Monkees
    The Monkees are an American pop rock group. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork,...
    
    
  • Former Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
    
     frontman Syd Barrett
    Syd Barrett
    Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
    
     releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs
    The Madcap Laughs
    The Madcap Laughs is an album by British singer/songwriter Syd Barrett, released on 3 January 1970. It was his first solo album after being replaced in the band Pink Floyd by his old school friend David Gilmour.- History :...
    
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• January 4 – The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
   drummer Keith Moon
  Keith Moon
  Keith John Moon was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon". Moon...
  
   fatally runs over his chauffer with his Bentley
  Bentley
  Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...
  
   trying to escape a mob outside a pub. The death is later ruled an accident.
• January 7 – Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock
  Woodstock Festival
  Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
  
   Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers.
• January 14 – Diana Ross and the Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
   perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
• January 16 – John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  's London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard
  Scotland Yard
  Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...
  
   for displaying "erotic lithographs"
• January 24 – James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats
  The Heartbeats
  The Heartbeats were a 1950s American doo-wop group best known for their song "A Thousand Miles Away", which charted at #53 in the US Billboard listings in 1957....
  
   and Shep and the Limelites
  Shep and the Limelites
  Shep & The Limelites was an American doo-wop group of the early 1960s. They are best known for their 1961 hit recording, "Daddy's Home".-Career:...
  
  , is found murdered in his car on the Long Island
  Long Island
  Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
  
   Expressway
• January 26 – Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water
  Bridge over Troubled Water
  Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Released on January 26, 1970 on both Quadraphonic and Stereo formats, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list...
  
  . The title track
  Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
  "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...
  
   and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards
  Grammy Awards of 1971
  The 13th Grammy Awards were held on 16 March 1971, and was the first time the ceremonies were broadcast on television by ABC. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1970...
  
  , including "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year", and "Album of the Year." In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
• January 27 - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
   makes the final recordings for his experimental album Circle in the Round
  Circle in the Round
  Circle in the Round is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It collects outtakes from a variety of sessions.Despite its lack of unity, Circle in the Round was an essential release in that, apart from 1950s recordings with Davis's quintet and sextet, it documented key moments in his career, until...
  
  , featuring sitar and tabla.
• January 28 – The newly formed Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
   walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience "I'm sorry we just can't get it together".
• February 11 – The film The Magic Christian
  The Magic Christian (film)
  The Magic Christian is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with noteworthy appearances by John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel of the same...
  
  , starring Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers
  Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...
  
   and Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  , is premiered in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger
  Badfinger
  Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969,...
  
  's "Come and Get It
  Come and Get It (song)
  "Come and Get It" is the name of a song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian, and made popular by the group Badfinger.-Beatles version:...
  
  " (written and produced by Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
  ), is released on Apple Records
  Apple Records
  Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston...
  
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• February 14 – The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
   records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire
  Yorkshire
  Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
  
  , England. The Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
   plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East
  Fillmore East
  The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It was open from 1968 to 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time...
  
  , New York City.
• February 17 – Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
  
   announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London's Royal Albert Hall
  Royal Albert Hall
  The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
  
  . She would be back performing concerts within a year.
• February 23 – Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
   appears on the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...
  
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• February 27 – Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  
   is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City
  Oklahoma city
  Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...
  
  , Oklahoma.
• February 28 – Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
   perform in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
   under the pseudonym The Nobs, to avoid a threatened lawsuit by Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company...
  
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• March 4 – Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
  
   is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida
  Tampa, Florida
  Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
  
  .
• March 6 – Cult
  Cult
  The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
  
   leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson
  Charles Manson
  Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...
  
   releases an album titled Lie: The Love and Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
• March 15 – West German pavilion at Expo '70
  Expo '70
  was a World's Fair held in Suita, Osaka, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind." In Japanese Expo '70 is often referred to as Ōsaka Banpaku...
  
   in Osaka features 5½ hours' daily live performances of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
   (to September 13).
• March 19 – David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
   marries model Angela Barnett
  Angela Bowie
  Angela Bowie is an American cover girl, model, actress and musician. She is the former wife of English musician David Bowie and mother of film director Duncan Jones.-Early life:...
  
  .
• March 21 – In Amsterdam
  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
  
  , Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  Dana Rosemary Scallon , known in her singing career simply as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament ....
  
   wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest 1970
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the 15th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 21 March 1970 at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Amsterdam contest is regarded as one of the most significant in Eurovision history for a number of reasons....
  
   for Ireland with the song "All Kinds of Everything
  All Kinds Of Everything
  "All Kinds of Everything" is a song written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith which as performed by Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970. "All Kinds of Everything" represented a return to the ballad form from the more energetic performances which had dominated Eurovision the previous years...
  
  ". She is elected to the European Parliament
  European Parliament
  The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
  
   some 29 years later.
• March 25 – José José
  José José
  José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz , known by his artistic name José José, is a Mexican singer.Referred in the entertainment world as "El Príncipe de la Canción" , José José is best known for his romantic ballads and renowned for his vocals...
  
   gives a masterful performance of the song "El Triste
  El Triste
  El Triste is a song written by Mexican composer Roberto Cantoral. It was performed for the first time on March 25, 1970, at the "Latin Song Festival II" by the Mexican singer José José...
  
  " at the "Latin Song Festival II", predecessor of the OTI Festival
  OTI Festival
  OTI Festival was an annual singing competition, held between 1972 and 2000, among active member countries of the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana .- Venues and Presenters :- Winners :-By country:...
  
  .
• March 26 – Peter Yarrow
  Peter Yarrow
  Peter Yarrow is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon"...
  
   (of Peter, Paul and Mary
  Peter, Paul and Mary
  Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk-singing trio whose nearly 50-year career began with their rise to become a paradigm for 1960s folk music. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers...
  
  ) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1969
• April 2 – The London Magistrate's Court hears arguments on John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  's indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
• April 3 – Minneapolis nightclub the Depot opens, eventually renamed to First Avenue.
• April 10 – Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
   publicly announces the break-up of The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  .
• April 17 – Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   performs at the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
  
  .
• April 20 – Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
  's first solo album, McCartney
  McCartney (album)
  McCartney is the debut solo album by Paul McCartney. Apart from Linda McCartney's vocal contributions, McCartney performed the entire album solo...
  
  , is released.
• April 24 – Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
  
   of Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  
   is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
  
  . Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman
  Abbie Hoffman
  Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ....
  
  , who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon's tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD
  LSD
  Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...
  
  . Slick is recognized (although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.
• May 4 – Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
  
  , 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
  Pulitzer Prize for Music
  The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year...
  
  .
• May 8 – The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  ' last LP
  Gramophone record
  A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
  
  , Let It Be, is released.
• May 16 – Randy Bachman
  Randy Bachman
  Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC, OM is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s–70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive...
  
   leaves The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
   to start up Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
• May 20 – The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  ' film Let It Be
  Let It Be (film)
  Let It Be is a 1970 documentary film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. The film features an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in public...
  
  premières in London and Liverpool. None of the four band members are in attendance at either screening.
• May 23 – 24 – Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
   make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
  
  , Free
  Free (band)
  Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now". They disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become a frontman of the band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums; lead guitarist Paul Kossoff died from a...
  
  , and Jose Feliciano
  José Feliciano
  José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
  
  . Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry is an English rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset. They are remembered above all for their hit "In the Summertime". It remains their most successful and most...
  
  , whose debut single "In the Summertime" becomes the best-selling hit of the year.
• June 13
  • "The Long and Winding Road
    The Long and Winding Road
    "The Long and Winding Road" is a ballad written by Paul McCartney that originally appeared on The Beatles' album Let It Be. It became The Beatles' 20th and last number-one song in the United States on 23 May 1970, and was the last single released by the quartet...
    
    " becomes the Beatles
    The Beatles
    The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
    
    ' last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain. http://web.archive.org/web/20041011184849/http://www.beatles.com/html/thelongandwindingroad/
  • The Stooges
    The Stooges
    The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...
    
     play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival.
• July 4 – The music countdown show American Top 40
  American Top 40
  American Top 40 is an internationally syndicated, independent radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs. Originally a production of Watermark Inc...
  
  debuts.
• July 17 – The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
   perform at the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   for President Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
  
   and his guest Prince Charles
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  . At Pat Nixon's
  Pat Nixon
  Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon was the wife of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Patricia or Pat Nixon.Born in Nevada, Pat Ryan grew up in Los Angeles, California...
  
   request, they do not play their breakthrough hit "American Woman
  American Woman (song)
  "American Woman" is a song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who, first released in January 1970 on the album of the same name and later in March as a single, which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been covered by many rock artists, including Lenny Kravitz, Krokus, and The Butthole...
  
  " due to the song's supposed anti-American lyrics.
• July 26 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.
• August 3 – Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance, on the Dick Cavett Show.
• August 26 – August 30 – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was held between 26 and 31 August 1970 at East Afton Farm an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and widely acknowledged as the largest musical event of...
  
   takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
  , The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
  , The Doors
  The Doors
  The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
  
  , Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  , Richie Havens
  Richie Havens
  Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...
  
  , John Sebastian
  John Sebastian
  John Benson Sebastian Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000...
  
  , Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
  , Ten Years After
  Ten Years After
  Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...
  
  , Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...
  
   and Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
  
  .
• August 30 – The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
   open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden.
• September 6 – During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans as a result of his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States.
• September 17 - Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
   makees his last appearance, with Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
   & War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
   jamming at Ronnie Scott
  Ronnie Scott
  Ronnie Scott was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.-Life and career:Ronnie Scott was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of...
  
  s Club in London. Hendrix dies the following day from a barbiturate
  Barbiturate
  Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system depressants, and can therefore produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to total anesthesia. They are also effective as anxiolytics, as hypnotics, and as anticonvulsants...
  
   overdose at his London hotel, aged of 27.
• October 10 – Newly-independent Fiji
  Fiji
  Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
  
   adopts God Bless Fiji
  God Bless Fiji
  Meda Dau Doka or God Bless Fiji is the national anthem of Fiji. The melody was adapted from a 1911 hymn by Charles Austin Miles entitled Dwelling in Beulah Land...
  
  as its national anthem.
• October 30 – Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
   of The Doors
  The Doors
  The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
  
  , found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behavior during a March 1, 1969 concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labor and a $500 fine.
• November 23 – The Electric Factory
  Electric Factory
  The Electric Factory is a concert venue in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe original "Electric Factory" venue was a converted tire warehouse at 22nd and Arch Streets, which opened in 1968. The first performers, on February 2, 1968, were the Chambers Brothers...
  
   concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania' closes its doors.
• December 8 – John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   conducts a lengthy and intensely candid interview with Jann Wenner
  Jann Wenner
  Jann Simon Wenner is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone, as well as the owner of Men's Journal and Us Weekly magazines.-Childhood:...
  
   of Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses his new solo album
  John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
  John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was received with high critical praise upon release. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock." In early 1971, the album reached number eight on the UK and went to number six in the US, spending eighteen...
  
   and the influence of primal therapy
  Primal therapy
  Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness and resolved through re-experiencing the incident and fully...
  
   on its creation, as well as his personal traumas dating back to childhood. He also makes many revelations about his time in The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , including his account of the group's breakup.
• Dalida
  Dalida
  Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
  
  , still unable to cut a UK record deal, leaves Barclay Records
  Barclay Records
  Barclay Records is a French record label founded in the mid-1950s by Eddie Barclay under the alias, Edouard Ruault. Eddie Barclay also founded the Riviera label in the early-1950s....
  
   for Orlando Records.
• Derek Bailey and Evan Parker
  Evan Parker
  Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...
  
   found Incus Records
  Incus Records
  Incus Records is an artist-owned record label, founded by Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters, specialising in the dissemination of free-improvised music. The first release on the label was The Topography of the Lungs, recorded by Bailey, Parker and Han Bennink in 1970...
  
  , specialising in releasing free improvised music
  Free improvisation
  Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
  
   and said to be the first independent artist-owned record label.
• Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
  ' Bitches Brew
  Bitches Brew
  Bitches Brew is a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in April 1970 on Columbia Records. The album continued his experimentation with electric instruments previously featured on his critically acclaimed In a Silent Way album...
  
  is widely considered the first successful full-fledged fusion of rock and roll
  Rock and roll
  Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
  
   and jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
  , as well as being one Davis's best-known albums.
• Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
  
   becomes a citizen of Switzerland.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1970

Bands disbanded

• The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
   break up permanently.
• Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
  Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
  The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s...
  
   split, with reunions in 1972, 1988, and 2006.
• Simon & Garfunkel – both members of the duo go on to solo careers, although they have reunited and performed together numerous times since breaking up.
• The Turtles
  The Turtles
  The Turtles are an American rock group led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. The band became notable for several Top 40 hits beginning with its cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" in 1965...
  
   (reform in 1983)
• See also Musical groups disestablished in 1970

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• 1+1+1=4 – Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet was a rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite their British sounding name, they came out of San Antonio, Texas. Their career was established when they began working with Texas record-producer Huey P. Meaux, after which the band relocated to the West Coast...
  
  
• IIxII – The Cowsills
  The Cowsills
  The Cowsills are an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island. They specialized in harmonies and the ability to sing and play music at an early age. The band was formed in the spring of 1965 by brothers Bill, Bob, and Barry, then shortly thereafter added John...
  
  
• Accept
  Accept (Chicken Shack album)
  Accept is the fourth album by the blues band, Chicken Shack, released in 1970. Accept was Chicken Shack's last album on the Blue Horizon label...
  
  – Chicken Shack
  Chicken Shack
  Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb , Andy Silvester , and Alan Morley , who were later joined by Christine Perfect in 1968.-Career:...
  
  
• All Kinds of Everything – Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  Dana Rosemary Scallon , known in her singing career simply as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament ....
  
  
• As Your Mind Flies By – Rare Bird
  Rare Bird
  Rare Bird was a progressive rock band founded in 1969. They were formed in England, but had more success in other European countries than they did at home. They are mostly remembered for the haunting, organ-based track "Sympathy"...
  
  
• Axe – Randy Bachman
  Randy Bachman
  Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC, OM is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s–70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive...
  
  
• Back Home
  Back Home (Chuck Berry album)
  Back Home was released in 1970 by Chess Records. The album title refers to Chuck Berry 'coming home' back to Chess Records after several years with Mercury Records.- Track listing :# "Tulane"# "Have Mercy Judge"# "Instrumental"# "Christmas"# "Gun"...
  
  – Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
  
  
• Back Home Again – Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum is an American singer-songwriter. He was raised in a traditional Jewish household and went to Hebrew school. His initial interest in music was sparked by Southern blues music and the folk music that was hugely popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
  
• Big Band Sound
  Big Band Sound (album)
  Big Band Sound is a 1970 compilation album of standards by Jo Stafford. The songs were recorded between 1960 and 1970 and see Stafford backed by a number of big band arrangers, notably her husband Paul Weston, as well as Billy May and Benny Carter...
  
  – Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• The Big O
  The Big O (album)
  'The Big O' is a music album recorded by Roy Orbison for London Records in the United Kingdom, with the music and backing vocals provided by English group, the Art Movement on all tracks except for "Penny Arcade", which was a studio recording and released as a single in the UK in 1969, where it...
  
  – Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
  
• Bill Haley's Scrapbook: Live at the Bitter End – Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of...
  
  
• Birth Control – Birth Control
  Birth Control (band)
  Birth Control is a German rock band known for their progressive hard rock sound and provocative album covers.Birth Control formed in the middle of 1968 in Berlin from two other bands, the Earls and the Gents...
  
  
• The Black Gladiator – Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
  
  
• Bright Sun is Shining – Barry Melton
  Barry Melton
  Barry "The Fish" Melton was the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded...
  
  
• The Brooklyn Bridge (album) – Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
  Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
  Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge is an American musical group, best known for their million selling rendition of Jimmy Webb's "The Worst That Could Happen" .-History:...
  
   (as The Brooklyn Bridge)
• Bullshit 3 1/4 – Danny Ben-Israel
  Danny Ben-Israel
  Danny Ben-Israel was a notable Israeli musician of the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing psychedelic progressive rock with socially concerned lyrics in Hebrew....
  
  
• Candles in the Rain
  Candles In The Rain
  Candles in the Rain is singer Melanie's third album, released in 1970. The album produced Melanie's first Top Ten single in North America, "Lay Down ", which was inspired by the crowd's reaction to her performance at Woodstock...
  
  – Melanie
  Melanie Safka
  Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
  
  
• Canto Libre
  Canto Libre (album)
  Canto libre is an album recorded by Víctor Jara in 1970.-Track listing:#"Inga" - #"Canción del arbol del olvido" - #"La pala" -...
  
  – Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Contribution – Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips is a folk-rock musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s.Phillips has recorded twenty albums and worked with musicians including Donovan, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bernie Taupin, and many others...
  
  
• Conway Twitty – Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
  
• Copperfields
  Copperfields
  Copperfields is the fifth album by bluegrass group The Dillards. The album continues the country rock style begun on the group's previous album, Wheatstraw Suite, featuring the same prominent orchestra and increased use of drums, electric bass and even electric guitar on "Brother John." Herb...
  
  – The Dillards
  The Dillards
  The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of Douglas Flint "Doug" Dillard The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of Douglas Flint "Doug" Dillard The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of...
  
  
• Cowboy in Sweden
  Cowboy in Sweden
  Cowboy in Sweden is a 1970 album by musician Lee Hazlewood. It is considered to be one of his best albums.The album was recorded to complement a TV production of the same title that Hazlewood starred in...
  
  – Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...
  
  
• The Delfonics
  The Delfonics (album)
  The Delfonics is the self-titled third album by American soul group The Delfonics, produced by Thom Bell and released in 1970 on the Philly Groove label. Unlike The Delfonics' two previous albums, The Delfonics consists entirely of new material with all tracks but one penned by Bell and/or lead...
  
  – The Delfonics
  The Delfonics
  The Delfonics are a pioneering Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their most notable hits include "La-La ", "Didn't I ", "Break Your Promise," "I'm Sorry," and "Ready or Not Here I Come "...
  
  
• Down Home – Seals and Crofts
  Seals and Crofts
  Seals and Crofts is a band made up of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts . The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl"...
  
  
• Down to Earth
  Down to Earth (Jimmy Buffett album)
  Down to Earth is the first album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was produced by Travis Turk and was initially released in 1970 on Andy Williams's small Barnaby Records label as Z 30093...
  
  – Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
  
  
• Dreams – Dreams
  Dreams (band)
  Dreams was one of the original prominent jazz rock bands in the period of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and recorded for Columbia Records. Dreams was formed by Jeff Kent and Doug Lubahn, who together wrote and arranged all their original songs. The band began as a trio and evolved into a...
  
  
• Ella in Budapest, Hungary
  Ella in Budapest, Hungary
  Ella in Budapest, Hungary is a live album recorded in 1970 by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Tommy Flanagan trio.The album remained unreleased until 1999 when it was issued by Pablo Records.-Track listing:...
  
  – Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer
  Emerson, Lake and Palmer (album)
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the eponymous debut album of British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1970.As a first album from the newly formed supergroup, the album clearly demonstrates the variety of influences the artists brought with them, in the mix of instrumental and...
  
  – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...
  
   (debut)
• The End of the Game
  The End of the Game
  The End of the Game is an album by British blues rock musician Peter Green, who was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member from 1967–70...
  
  – Peter Green
  Peter Green (musician)
  Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac...
  
  
• Eruptions – John Klemmer
  John Klemmer
  John Klemmer is an American saxophonist, composer, song writer and arranger.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and began playing guitar at age 5 and alto saxophone at age 11. His other early interests included graphics and visual art, writing, dance, puppetry, painting, sculpting and poetry...
  
  
• Feel It! – Elvin Bishop
  Elvin Bishop
  Elvin Bishop is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.-Career:Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten years old...
  
  
• Feelin' the Blues – The Chambers Brothers
  The Chambers Brothers
  The Chambers Brothers is a soul-music group, best known for its 1968 hit record, the 11-minute long song "Time Has Come Today". The group was part of the wave of new music that integrated American blues and gospel traditions with modern psychedelic and rock elements, spawning a heady mix...
  
  
• Fifteen Years Ago – Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
  
• Flat Baroque and Berserk
  Flat Baroque and Berserk
  Flat Baroque and Berserk is the fourth album by English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper, and was first released in 1970 by Harvest Records.-History:...
  
  – Roy Harper
  Roy Harper
  Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...
  
  
• Fools – Soundtrack-Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
• Gimme Shelter – Merry Clayton
  Merry Clayton
  Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer , and an actress...
  
  
• Going Down South – Mississippi Fred McDowell
  Mississippi Fred McDowell
  Fred McDowell known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.-Career:...
  
  
• Good-byes and Butterflies
  Good-byes and Butterflies
  Good-byes and Butterflies is the second studio album by Canadian rock band, the Five Man Electrical Band. This album featured the band's biggest hit, "Signs"...
  
  – Five Man Electrical Band
  Five Man Electrical Band
  The Five Man Electrical Band was a rock group from Canada's capital city of Ottawa, best known for their 1971 hit single "Signs"....
  
  
• Gula Matari
  Gula Matari
  Gula Matari is a 1970 studio album by Quincy Jones.-Track listing:# "Bridge Over Troubled Water" – 5:09# "Gula Matari" – 13:02# "Walkin'" – 8:02# "Hummin'" – 8:08-Personnel:...
  
  – Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
  
• Hank Williams Jr. Singing My Songs (Johnny Cash) – Hank Williams, Jr.
  Hank Williams, Jr.
  Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
  
  
• Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
  
• Hello! The Osmond Brothers – The Osmonds
  The Osmonds
  The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
  
  
• Honey, Wheat and Laughter
  Honey, Wheat and Laughter
  Honey, Wheat and Laughter is the third studio album by Anne Murray issued in 1970 on Capitol Records. The album was only released in Canada...
  
  – Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
  
• if (aka If 1) – If
  If (band)
  If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...
  
  
• if 2
  If 2
  If 2 is the second release by the English Jazz rock band If. It was released as a vinyl LP in 1970 and re-issued as a CD in 2006 on Repertoire Records with liner notes by UK music critic Chris Welch....
  
  – If
  If (band)
  If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...
  
  
• I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine?)
  I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine?)
  I Like Your Lovin' is the second studio album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record...
  
  – The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia...
  
  
• I'll Never Fall in Love Again – Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  
• Ils ont changé ma chanson – Dalida
  Dalida
  Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
  
  
• Focus Plays Focus – Focus
  Focus (band)
  Focus is a Dutch rock band which was founded by classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, and is most famous for the instrumental pieces "Hocus Pocus" and "Sylvia"...
  
  
• In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969
  In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969
  In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969 is a live Country rock album by Rick Nelson recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on December 13, 1969. It was the debut of his Stone Canyon Band, which included established and future country rock legends Randy Meisner, Tom Brumley, Allen Kemp, and Patrick...
  
   – Rick Nelson (live)
• Indianola Mississippi Seeds
  Indianola Mississippi Seeds
  Indianola Mississippi Seeds is a 1970 album in which B. B. King mixed elements of blues and pop/rock. Producer Bill Szymczyk decided to follow up on the success of the hit "The Thrill Is Gone" by matching King with a musical all-star cast...
  
  – B.B. King
• Intensified
  Intensified
  Intensified is an album by Desmond Dekker & the Aces released in 1970.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Desmond Dekker; except where indicated#"It Mek" - 1:40#"Too Much Too Soon" - 2:38...
  
  – Desmond Dekker & the Aces
• Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar (album)
  Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The album musical is a musical dramatisation of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Crucifixion....
  
  – by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
  
   and Tim Rice
  Tim Rice
  Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
  
  
• Klopfzeichen
  Klopfzeichen
  Klopfzeichen is the first full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster.Klopfzeichen was recorded on December 21, 1969 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf, Germany. Liner notes on the CD reissue on the Hypnotic label as well as some websites place the recording date precisely one year later in...
  
  – Kluster
  Kluster
  Kluster is a German experimental musical group whose work often resembles later industrial music.The original Kluster was short-lived, existing only from 1969 until mid-1971 when Conrad Schnitzler left and the remaining two members renamed themselves Cluster...
  
  
• The Lady and the Unicorn – John Renbourn
  John Renbourn
  John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...
  
  
• Legal – Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lie Back and Enjoy It
  Lie Back and Enjoy It
  Lie Back and Enjoy It is the second album by British-American blues rock group Juicy Lucy released in 1970. Although several members of the band had been replaced since the release of their first album, most notably singer Ray Owen and lead guitarist Neil Hubbard, it was generally considered to be...
  
  – Juicy Lucy
  Juicy Lucy (band)
  Juicy Lucy is a blues-rock band formed on April 1, 1969. After the demise of The Misunderstood, vocalist Ray Owen, steel guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell, and saxophone player Chris Mercer formed Juicy Lucy...
  
  
• Live at the Talk of the Town – Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• Looking In – Savoy Brown
  Savoy Brown
  Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues rock band, formed in 1965, in Battersea, South West London...
  
  
• Loudon Wainwright III
  Loudon Wainwright III (album)
  Loudon Wainwright III is the debut album of Loudon Wainwright III. It was released on vinyl in 1970 on Atlantic Records. Like his sophomore effort album II, the album is a solo acoustic effort...
  
  – Loudon Wainwright III
  Loudon Wainwright III
  Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.To...
  
  
• Lucifer's Friend
  Lucifer's Friend (album)
  Lucifer's Friend is the first album by the band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1970.-Side one:# "Ride in the Sky" – 2:55# "Everybody's Clown" – 6:12# "Keep Goin'" – 5:26# "Toxic Shadows" – 7:00-Side two:...
  
  – Lucifer's Friend
  Lucifer's Friend
  Lucifer's Friend was a 1970s German Rock band. Allmusic author, Eduardo Rivadavia, noted the group as, "early practitioners of heavy metal and progressive rock." They also incorporated elements of jazz into their music. The band have also been cited as one of the pioneers of doom metal.-History:The...
  
  

• Maria Bethânia Ao Vivo – Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...
  
  
• Marrying Maiden – It's A Beautiful Day
  It's a Beautiful Day
  It's a Beautiful Day is a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme.LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin...
  
  
• Master – The Tremeloes
  The Tremeloes
  The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
  
  
• Mr. Fox – Mr. Fox
  Mr. Fox
  Mr Fox were an early 1970s electric folk or folk rock band. They were seen as in the ‘second generation’ of electric folk performers and for a time were compared with Steeleye Span and Sandy Denny’s Fotheringay. Unlike Steeleye Span they mainly wrote their own material in a traditional style and...
  
  
• Mwandishi
  Mwandishi
  Mwandishi is the ninth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in 1971. It is one of Hancock's first departures from the traditional idioms of jazz as well as the onset of a new, creative and original style which produced an appeal to a wider audience, before his 1973 album, Head Hunters...
  
  – Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
  
• No BS – Brownsville Station
  Brownsville Station (band)
  Brownsville Station was a rock band from Michigan that was popular in the 1970s. Original members included Cub Koda , Mike Lutz , T.J. Cronley , and Tony Driggins...
  
  
• On the Waters
  On the Waters
  On the Waters is the second album released by Bread in 1970. This album was released in July 1970.-Track listing:#"Why Do You Keep Me Waiting" – 2:32 #"Make It with You" – 3:18...
  
  – Bread
  Bread (band)
  Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock....
  
  
• Osmonds – The Osmonds
  The Osmonds
  The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
  
  
• Patto – Patto
  Patto
  Patto was a progressive jazz-rock band formed in England in 1970 by vocalist Mike Patto with a lineup taken from Timebox consisting of vocalist Patto, drummer John Halsey, guitarist and vibraphone player Ollie Halsall and bassist Clive Griffiths....
  
  
• Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas
  Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas
  Perry Como In Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas was Perry Como's 18th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 16th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and his first live album....
  
  – Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• Potlatch
  Potlatch (album)
  Potlatch is the second album by American band Redbone.-Side one:#"Maggie" – 5:06#"Light as a Feather" – 1:56#"Who Can Say" – 2:50#"Judgement Day" – 2:30...
  
  – Redbone
  Redbone (band)
  Redbone is a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the million-selling gold-certified single, "Come and Get Your Love".-History:...
  
  
• The Rationals – The Rationals
  The Rationals
  -History:The Rationals formed in 1964 and first recorded a single for a local label, A2 Records, in 1965. After scoring a local hit with the tune "Gave My Love", they recorded a cover of Otis Redding's "Respect". This won them a contract for national distribution by Cameo/Parkway, and the single...
  
  
• Redbone
  Redbone (album)
  Redbone is the first album by American band Redbone.-Side one:#"Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band" – 3:06#"Prehistoric Rhythm" – 3:50#"Niki Hokey" – 3:17...
  
  – Redbone
  Redbone (band)
  Redbone is a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the million-selling gold-certified single, "Come and Get Your Love".-History:...
  
  
• Red White & Blues Image – Blues Image
• Reflections – New York Rock & Roll Ensemble
  New York Rock & Roll Ensemble
  The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble was a rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s described as playing "classical baroque rock".Years Active: 1967 - 1973- History/Biography :...
  
  
• Removing the Shadow – Hank Williams, Jr.
  Hank Williams, Jr.
  Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
  
  
• Revolution
  Revolution (The Dubliners album)
  Revolution is the title of the tenth album by The Dubliners. It was their second to be produced by Phil Coulter. This was a landmark in their career. Their sound had developed and Coulter, as well as playing piano on the record, had brought in other instrumentalists as well...
  
  – The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...
  
  
• Rick Sings Nelson
  Rick Sings Nelson
  Rick Sings Nelson is Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band's hit Country rock album from 1970.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Rick Nelson#"We've Got a Long Way to Go" – 3:57#"California" – 3:04#"Anytime" – 4:28...
  
  – Rick Nelson
• Robin's Reign – Robin Gibb
  Robin Gibb
  Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice , and elder brother Barry....
  
  
• Scorpio's Dance
  Scorpio's Dance
  Scorpio's Dance is an album by Shocking Blue, released in 1970.-Track listing:All songs by Robbie van Leeuwen unless otherwise noted.# "Scorpio's Dance "# "Alaska Country"# "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" # "Demon Lover"...
  
  – Shocking Blue
  Shocking Blue
  Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 1967. Their biggest hit, "Venus", went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13.5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.-Members:...
  
  
• Seatrain
  Seatrain (album)
  Seatrain is a second album by the band Seatrain, recorded in 1970 and adding Peter Rowan on guitar and lead vocals. Produced by George Martin, this was his first-ever record he produced after The Beatles...
  
  – Seatrain
  Seatrain (band)
  Seatrain was an American roots fusion band based initially in Marin County, California, and later in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Seatrain was formed after the breakup of the Blues Project in 1969...
  
  
• Second Contribution – Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips is a folk-rock musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s.Phillips has recorded twenty albums and worked with musicians including Donovan, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bernie Taupin, and many others...
  
  
• Shades of Rock
  Shades of Rock
  Shades of Rock is the eighth rock album by British instrumental group The Shadows, released in 1970 through Columbia .-Track listing:-Personnel:*Cover Photo - Alan Wilmoth*Liner Notes, Project Coordinator - John Reed...
  
  – The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
  Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
  -Personnel:* David Barnes – percussion, vocals* Charlie Saunders, Eddie Knowles – congas* Gil Scott-Heron – guitar, piano, vocals* Charles Stewart – cover art* Bob Thiele – producer-External links:* at Discogs...
  
  – Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
   – Live
• So Close, So Very Far to Go – Jake Holmes
  Jake Holmes
  Jake Holmes is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s...
  
  
• Something's Burning
  Something's Burning
  Something's Burning is the fifth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970.-Singles:Only one single was issued from the album, the title song "Something's Burning" with "Momma's Waiting" on the flip side...
  
  – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
• Soul on Top
  Soul on Top
  Soul on Top is an album by James Brown. Brown and saxophonist Maceo Parker worked with arranger/conductor Oliver Nelson to record a big band, funk and jazz vocal album...
  
  – James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• Stone the Crows
  Stone the Crows (album)
  -Personnel:Stone the Crows*Colin Allen – Drums, percussion*Maggie Bell – Vocals*Jimmy Dewar – Bass guitar, Vocals*Les Harvey – Acoustic, Electric Guitars*John McGinnis – Organ, Piano, KeyboardsAdditional personnel...
  
  – Stone the Crows
  Stone the Crows
  Stone the Crows were a blues band formed in Glasgow in late 1969.-History:The band were formed after Maggie Bell was introduced to Les Harvey by his elder brother, Alex Harvey...
  
  
• Stonehenge
  Stonehenge (album)
  -Track listing:Except where otherwise noted, all tracks composed by Richie Havens#"Open Our Eyes" – 2:56#"Minstrel from Gaul" – 3:35#"It Could Be the First Day" - 2:22#"Ring Around the Moon" - 2:08...
  
  – Richie Havens
  Richie Havens
  Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...
  
  
• Stranded – Edwards Hand
  Edwards Hand
  Edwards Hand are a musical group formed by Englishmen Rod Edwards and Roger Hand...
  
  
• Sugarloaf – Sugarloaf
  Sugarloaf (band)
  Sugarloaf was an American, Denver, Colorado based, rock and roll band in the 1970s, featuring Jerry Corbetta.Jerry Corbetta founded the band with guitarist Bob Webber of the Moonrakers; the other initial bandmembers were drummer Bob MacVittie on drums and rhythm guitarist Veeder Van Dorn III, also...
  
  
• Tell It All Brother
  Tell It All Brother
  Tell It All Brother is the sixth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970 by Reprise Records. It reached #61 on the Billboard 200.-Track listing:# "Tell It All Brother" # "Shine On Ruby Mountain"...
  
  – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
• Thank Christ for the Bomb – The Groundhogs
  The Groundhogs
  Groundhogs are a British rock band founded in late 1963, that toured extensively in the 1960s, achieved prominence in the early 1970s and continued sporadically into the 21st century.-Career:...
  
  
• Them Changes – Buddy Miles
  Buddy Miles
  George Allen Miles, Jr. , known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a founding member of The Electric Flag in 1967, then as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 through to January 1970.-Early life:George Allen Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on...
  
  
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) – Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  
• This is Tom Jones – Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• Tide
  Tide (album)
  Tide is the sixth album by Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was released in 1970.-Track listing:# "The Girl from Ipanema" –4:53...
  
  – Antonio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
  
  
• 'Til the Band Comes In
  'Til The Band Comes In
  'Til The Band Comes In is a Scott Walker album, released in 1970. As a compromise with his record company, the first 10 tracks are self-penned, the remainder are cover versions.- Track listing :- Personnel :* Alan Clayson – liner notes...
  
  – Scott Walker
  Scott Walker (singer)
  Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...
  
  
• Time and a Word
  Time and a Word
  Time and a Word is the second album by progressive rock band Yes, released in mid-1970 in the UK and November 1970 in the US. This was the last Yes album to feature the group's original line-up, as Peter Banks was fired before the album's release....
  
  – Yes
  Yes (band)
  Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
  
  
• Toe Fat – Toe Fat
  Toe Fat
  Toe Fat was an English rock music band, active from June 1969 to 1971, notable for including two future members of Uriah Heep.-Career:Formed in June 1969, the band was fronted by former Rebel Rouser Cliff Bennett and, in the course of its two year, two album career, featured lead guitarist and...
  
  
• Together After Five – Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet was a rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite their British sounding name, they came out of San Antonio, Texas. Their career was established when they began working with Texas record-producer Huey P. Meaux, after which the band relocated to the West Coast...
  
  
• Tom – Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• Tony Joe
  Tony Joe
  Tony Joe was the third studio album released by Tony Joe White. It was released on Monument Records and contained the singles "High Sherrif of Calhoun Parrish" and "Save Your Sugar For Me" It was recorded at RCA Victor Studios, Nashville and Lyn-Lou Studios, Memphis in 1970. It was produced by...
  
  – Tony Joe White
  Tony Joe White
  Tony Joe White is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989...
  
  
• To See My Angel Cry – Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
  
• Total Destruction to Your Mind – Swamp Dogg
  Swamp Dogg
  Jerry Williams, Jr., , is a soul music artist who is better known by his pseudonym Swamp Dogg.Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Williams made his first recording in 1954 under the moniker "Little Jerry", a 78 rpm single on the Mechanic label titled "HTD Blues" / "Nats Wailing"...
  
  
• Trapeze
  Trapeze (1970 album)
  Trapeze is the 1970 debut rock album by the band Trapeze. The album was produced by John Lodge, of Moody Blues fame. The sound on this particular album is a far cry from the blues-based hard rock the band would become well-known for....
  
  – Trapeze
  Trapeze (band)
  Trapeze were an English rock band formed in March 1969, by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley , with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland...
  
  
• Travelin – Tommy James and the Shondells
• A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills) – Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
  
  
• Warhorse
  Warhorse (album)
  Warhorse is the debut album by English hard rock band Warhorse. The album was re-released on vinyl in 1984 under the name Vulture Blood.- Track listing :*All Songs Written By Warhorse, except where noted.# "Vulture Blood" - 6:13...
  
  – Warhorse
  Warhorse (70s band)
  Warhorse were a British band formed by the former Deep Purple bassist, Nick Simper.-Career:Simper left Deep Purple in 1969, and joined Marsha Hunt's backing band. Not long after, Simper replaced her backing band with Ged Peck on guitar and Mac Poole on drums. When Hunt became pregnant, the band...
  
  
• Warpig – Warpig
  Warpig (band)
  Warpig is a Canadian rock band who had gained a fan following in the Ontario club circuit in the 1970s and performed shows with such acts as Wishbone Ash, Savoy Brown, Manfred Mann, and Mahogany Rush...
  
  
• Well Now Dig This – The Jodimars
  The Jodimars
  The Jodimars was an American rock and roll band that was formed in the summer of 1955 and remained active until 1958. The band was created by former members of Bill Haley & His Comets who had quit that group in a salary dispute...
  
  
• When I Lay My Burden Down – Mississippi Fred McDowell
  Mississippi Fred McDowell
  Fred McDowell known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.-Career:...
  
   and Furry Lewis
  Furry Lewis
  Furry Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s.-Life and...
  
  
• With Love – Bobbi Martin
  Bobbi Martin
  Bobbi Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She grew up and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit. She died at the age of 56 at the Brighton Wood Knoll medical facility in Baltimore...
  
  
• Within Me - Sergio Franchi
  Sergio Franchi
  Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.Franchi was born in Cremona, Italy. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously. The family moved to South Africa in 1952, where Sergio worked part-time as a draftsman, while continuing to study...
  
  
• Words and Music
  Words and Music (Jimmy Webb album)
  Words and Music is Jimmy Webb's second album, and his first legitimate album.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Jimmy Webb; except where indicated#"Sleepin' In The Daytime"#"P.F...
  
  – Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...
  
  
• Writer
  Writer (album)
  Writer is the first solo album by Carole King and was released in 1970. Carole King had already started her career as a songwriter and been a part of The City. The top song was "Child of Mine", then "Up on the Roof" which was a number 4 hit for the Drifters in 1962 and later covered by James Taylor...
  
  – Carole King
  Carole King
  Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
  
  
• Yes We Can – Lee Dorsey
  Lee Dorsey
  Lee Dorsey was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.-Career:...
  
  
• Yeti
  Yeti (album)
  Yeti is a double LP by psychedelic rock band Amon Düül II which was first released in 1970 on Liberty . The album was produced by Olaf Kübler and Amon Düül II, and engineered by Willy Schmidt, "with a little help of Siegfried E. Loch"...
  
  – Amon Düül II
  Amon Düül II
  -Studio Albums:-Live Albums:-Compilations:-Singles:-External links:*...
  
  

Biggest hit singles

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...	Let It Be Let It Be (song) "Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band...	1970		US BB 1 – Mar 1970, Canada 1 – Mar 1970, Holland 1 – Mar 1970, Switzerland 1 – Mar 1970, Norway 1 – Mar 1970, Australia 1 of 1970, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Sep 1970, Australia Goset 1 – Apr 1970, UK 2 – Mar 1970, Germany 2 – Apr 1970, DDD 3 of 1970, Italy 8 of 1970, US CashBox 9 of 1970, RYM 9 of 1970, France 10 – Mar 1970, Virgin 11, WXPN 12, Japan 14 of all time (international songs), Europe 15 of the 1970s, US BB 20 of 1970, Rolling Stone 20, POP 20 of 1970, OzNet 25, Poland 28 – Dec 2003, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1970, Scrobulate 34 of classic rock, Belgium 77 of all time, Germany 149 of the 1970s, TheQ 318, Acclaimed 342
2	Mungo Jerry Mungo Jerry Mungo Jerry is an English rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset. They are remembered above all for their hit "In the Summertime". It remains their most successful and most...	In the Summertime	1970		UK 1 – Jun 1970, Holland 1 – Jun 1970, Switzerland 1 – Jun 1970, Norway 1 – Jul 1970, Germany 1 – Jul 1970, Éire 1 – Jul 1970, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Feb 1971, Australia Goset 1 – Aug 1970, South Africa 2 of 1970, US BB 3 – Jul 1970, Canada 4 – Jul 1970, Italy 5 of 1970, France 7 – Aug 1970, Australia 16 of 1970, US BB 26 of 1970, POP 26 of 1970, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1970, US CashBox 35 of 1970, Germany 45 of the 1970s, DDD 47 of 1970, RYM 61 of 1970, Acclaimed 2195
3	Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge over Troubled Water Bridge over Troubled Water (song) "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...	1970		UK 1 – Feb 1970, US BB 1 – Feb 1970, Canada 1 – Feb 1970, Australia Goset 1 – Mar 1970, Grammy in 1970, DDD 2 of 1970, Germany 4 – Apr 1970, US CashBox 5 of 1970, Holland 5 – Feb 1970, Switzerland 5 – Mar 1970, Australia 5 of 1970, Norway 7 – Apr 1970, US BB 9 of 1970, France 10 – Apr 1970, Europe 18 of the 1970s, RYM 19 of 1970, 28 in 2FM list, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1970, POP 41 of 1970, WXPN 41, Rolling Stone 47, Acclaimed 64, Scrobulate 66 of oldies, Belgium 162 of all time, Germany 239 of the 1970s
4	Shocking Blue Shocking Blue Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 1967. Their biggest hit, "Venus", went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13.5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.-Members:...	Venus	1970		US BB 1 – Dec 1969, Canada 1 – Dec 1969, France 1 – Apr 1970, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1969, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Aug 1970, Australia Goset 1 – Jan 1970, Norway 2 – Feb 1970, Germany 2 – Jan 1970, Holland 3 – Jul 1969, Italy 3 of 1970, US CashBox 6 of 1970, South Africa 7 of 1970, UK 8 – Jan 1970, Japan 15 of all time (international songs), POP 17 of 1970, Australia 19 of 1970, Europe 20 of the 1960s, US BB 21 of 1970, RYM 26 of 1969, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1969, DDD 34 of 1969, Germany 261 of the 1960s
5	Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...	Whole Lotta Love Whole Lotta Love "Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is featured as the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States and Japan as a single. The US release became their first hit single, it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970, when it...	1970		France 1 – Jan 1970, Germany 1 – Mar 1970, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Sep 1970, Australia Goset 1 – Feb 1970, TheQ 1, DDD 1 of 1969, Canada 2 – Dec 1969, US BB 4 – Dec 1969, Holland 4 – Dec 1969, Switzerland 5 – Mar 1970, RYM 8 of 1969, Australia 11 of 1970, Europe 11 of the 1960s, Scrobulate 11 of classic rock, US BB 38 of 1970, POP 38 of 1970, Belgium 48 of all time, US CashBox 54 of 1970, Poland 74 of all time, Rolling Stone 75, Acclaimed 85, Germany 120 of the 1970s, WXPN 400

Top hits – US and UK singles

• "ABC
  ABC (song)
  "ABC" is a 1970 number-one hit song by The Jackson 5. "ABC" was written with the same design as "I Want You Back", and was first heard on American Bandstand in February 1970. "ABC" knocked The Beatles song "Let It Be" out of the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970...
  
  " – The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
• "After Midnight" – Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
  
• "Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1)" – James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• "Ain't No Mountain High Enough
  Ain't No Mountain High Enough
  "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is an R&B/soul song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla Motown label. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, becoming a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes...
  
  " – Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
• "Airport Love Theme (Gwen & Vern)" – Vincent Bell
  Vinnie Bell
  Vinnie Bell is a leading American session guitarist and pioneer of electronic effects in pop music.He played in nightclubs in New York City in the late 1950s...
  
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• "All I Have To Do Is Dream" – Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
  Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
  Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell is a 1968 album by Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry. Gentry and Campbell's harmonies resulted in a gold record and three hit singles, including a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream", which rose to #3 on the U.K. Top 40 and #27 on the...
  
  
• "All Kinds of Everything
  All Kinds Of Everything
  "All Kinds of Everything" is a song written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith which as performed by Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970. "All Kinds of Everything" represented a return to the ballad form from the more energetic performances which had dominated Eurovision the previous years...
  
  " – Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  Dana Rosemary Scallon , known in her singing career simply as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament ....
  
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• "All Right Now
  All Right Now
  "All Right Now" is a rock single by the English rock band Free. The song, released in mid-1970, hit #2 on the UK singles chart and #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. "All Right Now" originally appeared on the album Fire And Water, which Free recorded on the Island Records label, formed...
  
  " – Free
  Free (band)
  Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now". They disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become a frontman of the band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums; lead guitarist Paul Kossoff died from a...
  
  
• "Always Something There to Remind Me" – R. B. Greaves
  R. B. Greaves
  Ronald Bertram Aloysius "R. B." Greaves III is a singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria". A #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, this single sold one million copies and earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America...
  
  
• "Amazing Grace
  Amazing Grace
  "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
  
  " – Judy Collins
  Judy Collins
  Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...
  
  
• "American Woman
  American Woman (song)
  "American Woman" is a song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who, first released in January 1970 on the album of the same name and later in March as a single, which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been covered by many rock artists, including Lenny Kravitz, Krokus, and The Butthole...
  
  " – The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
  
• "Amos Moses" – Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
  
  
• "Are You Ready?" – Pacific Gas & Electric
  Pacific Gas & Electric (band)
  Pacific Gas & Electric was an American blues rock band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, led by singer Charlie Allen. Their biggest hit was "Are You Ready?"-Career:...
  
  
• "Arizona" – Mark Lindsay
  Mark Lindsay
  Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the singer for the group Paul Revere & the Raiders.-Biography:Lindsay was born in Eugene, Oregon and was the second of eight children...
  
  
• "As the Years Go By
  As the Years Go By
  "As the Years Go By" is the first single by rock fusion band Mashmakhan from their self-titled debut album. The single was first recorded in Columbia B Studios and was released as the first single to Mashmakhan's self-titled debut album. The other single "Days When We Are Free" was used as the...
  
  " – Mashmakhan
  Mashmakhan
  Mashmakhan was a Canadian rock fusion band that was most active in the early 1970s, and is best known for their hit single "As the Years Go By."-History:...
  
  
• "Baby Hold On" – The Grass Roots
  The Grass Roots
  The Grass Roots is an American rock band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri.In their career, The Grass Roots achieved two gold albums, one gold single and charted singles a total of 21 times. Among their charting singles, they...
  
  
• "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
  Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
  "Ball of Confusion " is a 1970 hit single for The Temptations. It was released on the Gordy label, and produced by Norman Whitfield....
  
  " – The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  
• "Band of Gold
  Band Of Gold (Freda Payne song)
  "Band of Gold" is a popular song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland under the pseudonym Edythe Wayne, and Ron Dunbar, and first recorded by Freda Payne...
  
  " – Freda Payne
  Freda Payne
  Freda Charcilia Payne Some sources give a birth year of 1945, but this appears to be an error as all sources agree that she is older than her sister Scherrie, born 1944. is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in...
  
  
• "Be My Baby" – Andy Kim
  Andy Kim
  Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
  
  
• "Beaucoups of Blues" – Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  
• "The Bells" – The Originals
  The Originals
  The Originals were a successful Motown R&B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits "Baby I'm For Real", "The Bells" and the disco classic, "Down to Love Town"...
  
  
• "Betty" – The Commodores (Not from Tuskegee, but a white quintet from Chatsworth, California)
• "Big Yellow Taxi
  Big Yellow Taxi
  "Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written and originally performed by Joni Mitchell in 1970. It was a big hit in her native Canada as well as Australia and the UK...
  
  " – Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
  
  
• "Black Magic Woman
  Black Magic Woman
  "Black Magic Woman" is a song written by Peter Green that first appeared as a Fleetwood Mac single in various countries in 1968, subsequently appearing on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac compilation albums English Rose and The Pious Bird of Good Omen . In 1970, it became a classic hit by Santana, as sung...
  
  " – Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
  
• "Black Night
  Black Night
  "Black Night" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple, first released as a single in June 1970 and later included on the 25th Year Anniversary version of their 1970 album, In Rock. The song became a hit following its release, peaking at #2 on UK charts, and to this day remains Deep Purple's...
  
  " – Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
  
  
• "(Blame It) On The Pony Express" – Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon
  Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon
  Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon were a U.S. vocal soul group, prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Originally known simply as The Bandwagon, they were formed in 1967 and featured Artie Fullilove, Billy Bradley, Terry Lewis and lead singer Johnny Johnson Johnny Johnson and the...
  
  
• "Blowing Away" – The 5th Dimension
• "Border Song (Holy Moses)" – Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "Born to Wander" – Rare Earth
  Rare Earth (band)
  Rare Earth is an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label , who prospered in 1970-1972. Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first big hit-making act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members...
  
  
• "The Boxer
  The Boxer
  "The Boxer" is a folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon in 1968 and first recorded by Simon & Garfunkel. It was released as the follow-up single to their number one hit "Mrs. Robinson", and reached #7 in the US charts. It later appeared on their last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, along...
  
  " – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Bridge over Troubled Water
  Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
  "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...
  
  " – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Brontosaurus" – The Move
  The Move
  The Move, from Birmingham, England, were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s. They scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any success in the United States....
  
  
• "Brother Rapp (Parts 1 & 2)" – James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• "Call Me" – Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "Candida
  Candida (song)
  "Candida" was the first single released under the name Dawn, later to become Tony Orlando and Dawn, in August 1970. It was written by Toni Wine and Irwin Levine, produced by Dave Appell with Hank Medress, Phil Margo, Mitch Margo and Jay Siegel of The Tokens, and arranged by Norman Bergen. The...
  
  " – Tony Orlando and Dawn
  Tony Orlando and Dawn
  Tony Orlando and Dawn was a pop music group that was popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits include "Candida", "Knock Three Times", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", and "He Don't Love You ".-History:...
  
  
• "Can't Help Falling in Love
  Can't Help Falling in Love
  "Can't Help Falling in Love" is a pop song originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss. The melody was based on "Plaisir d'Amour" but with a different...
  
  " – Andy Williams
  Andy Williams
  Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...
  
  
• "Cecilia" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Celebrate" – Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
  
  
• "Check Out Your Mind" – The Impressions
  The Impressions (American band)
  The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B....
  
  
• "Chestnut Mare
  Chestnut Mare
  "Chestnut Mare" is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy during 1969 for a planned country rock musical named Gene Tryp. The musical was never staged and the song was instead released in September 1970 as part of The Byrds' album...
  
  " – The Byrds
  The Byrds
  The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
  
  
• "(They Long to Be) Close to You
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  " Close to You" is a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was first recorded by Richard Chamberlain and released as a single in 1963 as "They Long to Be Close to You," without parentheses. However, it was the single's flip side, "Blue Guitar," that became a hit...
  
  " – The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
  
  
• "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)
  I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)
  "I'm Your Captain " is an epic 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their album Closer to Home. Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording. One of the group's best-known songs, it is composed as two...
  
  " – Grand Funk Railroad
  Grand Funk Railroad
  Grand Funk Railroad is an American rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s. Grand Funk Railroad toured constantly to packed arenas worldwide. A popular take on the band during its heyday was that, although the critics hated them, audiences loved them...
  
  
• "Come And Get It
  Come and Get It (song)
  "Come and Get It" is the name of a song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian, and made popular by the group Badfinger.-Beatles version:...
  
  " – Badfinger
  Badfinger
  Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969,...
  
  
• "Come Running
  Come Running
  "Come Running" is a song written by singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album Moondance."Come Running" was also the only song to survive the Astral Weeks demos for Warner Bros. in 1968.-Recording:...
  
  " – Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
  
  
• "Come Saturday Morning
  Come Saturday Morning (song)
  Come Saturday Morning is a popular song with music by Fred Karlin and lyrics by Dory Previn, published in 1970. It was first performed by The Sandpipers on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo starring Liza Minnelli, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original...
  
  " – The Sandpipers
  The Sandpipers
  The Sandpipers were an American easy listening trio/quartet, who carved a niche in 1960s folk rock. They are best remembered for their cover version of "Guantanamera", which became a transatlantic Top 10 hit in 1966, and their Top 20 hit "Come Saturday Morning" from the soundtrack of the film The...
  
  
• "Cottonfields
  Cotton Fields
  "Cotton Fields" is a song written by blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly who made the first recording of the song in 1940.-Early versions:...
  
  " – The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  
• "Cracklin' Rosie
  Cracklin' Rosie
  "Cracklin' Rosie" is a 1970 song written and performed by Neil Diamond in 1970, from his album Tap Root Manuscript. This was Neil Diamond's first American #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1970, and his third to sell a million copies. It become Diamond's breakthrough single on the UK...
  
  " – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Cry Me A River" – Joe Cocker
  Joe Cocker
  John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
  
  
• "Cupid" – Johnny Nash
  Johnny Nash
  John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.-Life and career:...
  
  
• "Daughter of Darkness" – Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "Deeper and Deeper" – Freda Payne
  Freda Payne
  Freda Charcilia Payne Some sources give a birth year of 1945, but this appears to be an error as all sources agree that she is older than her sister Scherrie, born 1944. is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in...
  
  
• "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
  Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
  "Didn't I " is a 1970 single by The Delfonics, produced by Thom Bell and released on the Bell record label. The recording is considered one of the most notable early Philly soul singles to be released and is regarded as a classic, winning a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group...
  
  " – The Delfonics
  The Delfonics
  The Delfonics are a pioneering Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their most notable hits include "La-La ", "Didn't I ", "Break Your Promise," "I'm Sorry," and "Ready or Not Here I Come "...
  
  
• "Do It" – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Do the Funky Chicken" – Rufus Thomas
  Rufus Thomas
  Rufus Thomas, Jr. was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
  
  
• "Do What You Wanna Do" – Five Flights Up
  Five Flights Up
  Five Flights Up was an American five-person R&B ensemble. They had a hit in 1970 with the song "Do What You Wanna Do", written by J.B. Bingham. The song, released on T-A Records, hit #37 on the US Billboard Pop Singles chart....
  
  
• "Do You See My Love (for You Growing)" – Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
• "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "Domino
  Domino (Van Morrison song)
  "Domino" is a hit song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It is the opening track of his fourth studio album, His Band and the Street Choir. This song is Morrison's personal musical tribute to New Orleans R&B singer and pianist Fats Domino.It was released by Warner Bros...
  
  " – Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
  
  
• "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" – Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "Easy Come, Easy Go" – Bobby Sherman
  Bobby Sherman
  Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. , is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California...
  
  
• "El Condor Pasa
  El Cóndor Pasa (song)
  El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes....
  
  " – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Eli's Coming" – Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
  
  
• "Engine Number 9" – Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
  
  
• "Everybody Get Together" – The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock group. Their single "Glad All Over" knocked The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964: it eventually peaked at No.6 in the United States in April 1964.They were the second group of the British Invasion,...
  
  
• "Everybody's Got the Right to Love" – The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
• "Everybody's Out of Town" – B. J. Thomas
  B. J. Thomas
  Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s—appearing on the pop, adult contemporary, country and Hot 100 charts.-Career:...
  
  
• "Everything Is Beautiful
  Everything Is Beautiful
  "Everything is Beautiful" is a song by Ray Stevens. It has appeared on many of Stevens' albums, including one named after the song, and has become a pop standard and common in religious performances. The children heard singing the chorus of the song, using the hymn, "Jesus Loves the Little...
  
  " – Ray Stevens
  Ray Stevens
  Ray Stevens is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs.-Early career:...
  
  
• "Everything's Tuesday" – Chairmen of the Board
• "Evil Ways
  Evil Ways
  "Evil Ways" is a song by Santana from their 1969 album Santana. It was written by Clarence "Sonny" Henry and recorded by jazz percussionist Willie Bobo in 1968 on his album of the same name. The song is in simple verse form...
  
  " – Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
  
• "Express Yourself" – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering American soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973 when the band had 9 singles reach Billboard's pop and/or rhythm and blues Hot 100 lists, such as "Do Your Thing" , "Till You Get...
  
  
• "Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" – Jimmy Ruffin
  Jimmy Ruffin
  Jimmy Ruffin is an American soul singer, and elder brother of the late David Ruffin of The Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."-Life:...
  
  
• "Fire and Rain" – James Taylor
  James Taylor
  James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
  
  
• "For the Good Times" – Ray Price
  Ray Price (musician)
  Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music...
  
  
• "For the Love of Him
  For the Love of Him
  "For the Love of Him" is the title track from the 1970 album by Bobbi Martin. The single was her most successful release on both the pop and easy listening charts in the United States...
  
  " – Bobbi Martin
  Bobbi Martin
  Bobbi Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She grew up and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit. She died at the age of 56 at the Brighton Wood Knoll medical facility in Baltimore...
  
  
• "Friends" – Arrival
  Arrival (band)
  Arrival was a London-based close-harmony pop-rock band featuring singers originally from Liverpool. Following its appearance on Maynard Ferguson's 1970 UK television special and two chart hits, "Friends" and "I Will Survive", the band was booked to appear at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.After...
  
  
• "Get Ready" – Rare Earth
  Rare Earth (band)
  Rare Earth is an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label , who prospered in 1970-1972. Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first big hit-making act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members...
  
  
• "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
  Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
  "Get Up Sex Machine" is a funk song recorded by James Brown in 1970 and released as a two-part single on King Records....
  
  " – James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• "Gimme Dat Ding
  Gimme Dat Ding (song)
  "Gimme Dat Ding" is a 1970 popular song sung by "one-hit wonder" The Pipkins, written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Released as a single, it is the title track of an album by The Pipkins on EMI Columbia, the song also appeared on a compilation of the same name, which The Pipkins shared with...
  
  " – The Pipkins
  The Pipkins
  The Pipkins were a short-lived novelty duo, best known for their hit single "Gimme Dat Ding" , which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Charts and #9 on the U.S. charts in 1970...
  
  
• "Give Me Just a Little More Time
  Give Me Just a Little More Time
  "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland's Invictus Records label....
  
  " – Chairmen of the Board
• "God, Love and Rock & Roll" – Teegarden & Van Winkle
  Teegarden & Van Winkle
  Teegarden & Van Winkle were an American musical duo, composed of Skip Knape , and David Teegarden . Formed in Tulsa, they took their folksy rock to Detroit....
  
  
• "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha" – Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• "Gotta Hold on to This Feeling" – Jr. Walker & the All Stars
  Jr. Walker & the All Stars
  Junior Walker & the All Stars were signed to the Motown label in the 1960s, and became one of the label's signature acts.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Govinda" – Radha Krishna Temple
  Radha Krsna Temple
  The Radha Krishna Temple was the headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in London from the late 1960s. The temple came to prominence when The Beatles and especially George Harrison started to publicly express their interest in Eastern philosophy and Krishna consciousness...
  
  
• "Green-Eyed Lady" – Sugarloaf
  Sugarloaf (band)
  Sugarloaf was an American, Denver, Colorado based, rock and roll band in the 1970s, featuring Jerry Corbetta.Jerry Corbetta founded the band with guitarist Bob Webber of the Moonrakers; the other initial bandmembers were drummer Bob MacVittie on drums and rhythm guitarist Veeder Van Dorn III, also...
  
  
• "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)
  The Green Manalishi
  "The Green Manalishi " is a song written by Peter Green and recorded by Fleetwood Mac. It was released as a single in the UK in May 1970 and reached #10 on the British charts. The song was written during Green's final months with the band, at a time when he was struggling with LSD and had...
  
  " – Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...
  
  
• "Groovin' with Mr. Bloe" – Mr. Bloe
  Mr. Bloe
  Mr. Bloe was the name given to the musicians who performed the single "Groovin' With Mr. Bloe" which was a hit for Dick James Music . These included Harry Pitch or Ian Duck on harmonica, and Zack Laurence on piano....
  
  
• "Groovy Situation" – Gene Chandler
  Gene Chandler
  Gene Chandler also known as "The Duke of Earl" or simply "The Duke", is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, producer and record executive. He is one of the leading exponents of the 1960s Chicago soul scene...
  
  
• "Gypsy Woman" – Brian Hyland
  Brian Hyland
  Brian Hyland is an American pop recording artist who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He continued recording into the 1970s...
  
  
• "Hand Me Down World" – The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
  
• "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
  He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
  "He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother" is a popular music ballad written by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell. Originally recorded by Kelly Gordon in 1969, the song became a worldwide hit for The Hollies later that year and again for Neil Diamond in 1970....
  
  " – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
  He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
  "He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother" is a popular music ballad written by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell. Originally recorded by Kelly Gordon in 1969, the song became a worldwide hit for The Hollies later that year and again for Neil Diamond in 1970....
  
  " – The Hollies
  The Hollies
  The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• "Heaven Help Us All" – Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  
• "Heed the Call" – Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
  The First Edition
  The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
  
  
• "Hey Lawdy Mama" – Steppenwolf
  Steppenwolf (band)
  Steppenwolf are a Canadian-American rock group that was prominent in the late 1960s. The group was formed in 1967 in Los Angeles by vocalist John Kay, guitarist Michael Monarch, bassist Rushton Moreve, keyboardist Goldy McJohn and drummer Jerry Edmonton after the dissolution of Toronto group The...
  
  
• "Hey There Lonely Girl
  Hey There Lonely Girl
  "Hey There Lonely Girl" is a song by R&B singer Eddie Holman. Recorded and released in 1969, it charted in 1970. An original version by Ruby and the Romantics was entitled, "Hey There Lonely Boy" in 1963. Holman's song hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...
  
  " – Eddie Holman
  Eddie Holman
  Eddie Holman is an American singer and recording artist. He is best known for his 1970 hit song "Hey There Lonely Girl".-Biography:...
  
  
• "Hey, Mister Sun" – Bobby Sherman
  Bobby Sherman
  Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. , is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California...
  
  
• "Hi-De-Ho" – Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears is an American music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles...
  
  
• "Hitchin' a Ride
  Hitchin' a Ride (Vanity Fare song)
  "Hitchin' a Ride" is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander issued as a single by the UK-based band, Vanity Fare in late 1969. It reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1970, but was a bigger hit in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970. ...
  
  " – Vanity Fare
  Vanity Fare
  Vanity Fare were a UK pop/rock group formed in 1966, best remembered for their million selling song, "Hitchin' a Ride," which became a worldwide hit in 1970.-Career:...
  
  
• "Holly Holy
  Holly Holy
  "Holly Holy" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond. Released as a single in October 1969, it was quite successful as the follow-on to "Sweet Caroline", reaching number 6 on the U.S. pop singles chart by December...
  
  " – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Home Lovin' Man" – Andy Williams
  Andy Williams
  Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...
  
  
• "Honey Come Back
  Honey Come Back (song)
  "Honey Come Back" is the title of a song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by American country music artist Glen Campbell. It was released in January 1970 as the second single from his album Try a Little Kindness. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart...
  
  " – Glen Campbell
  Glen Campbell
  Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
  
  
• "House of the Rising Sun" – Frijid Pink
  Frijid Pink
  Frijid Pink is a Detroit area blues rock band formed in 1967, best known for their version of "House of the Rising Sun," released in 1969.The initial line-up of the band included drummer Richard Stevers, guitarist Gary Ray Thompson, bassist Tom Harris, lead singer Tom Beaudry , and later added...
  
  
• "I (Who Have Nothing)
  I (Who Have Nothing)
  "I " is a song originally released in English by Ben E. King in 1963."I " is based on the Italian song "Uno Dei Tanti," with music by Carlo Donida and lyrics by Giulio "Mogol" Rapetti. "Uno Dei Tanti" was released by Joe Sentieri in 1961...
  
  " – Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "I Ain't Got Time Anymore" – Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• "I Am Somebody (Part 2)" – Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Harrison Taylor was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.-Early years:...
  
  
• "I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top" – The Hollies
  The Hollies
  The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• "I Don't Believe In If Anymore" – Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of over 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability...
  
  
• "I Hear You Knocking
  I Hear You Knocking
  "I Hear You Knocking" is a popular rhythm and blues song with emphatic syncopation, written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King and published in 1955. The original recording was made by Smiley Lewis, reaching #2 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.The lyrics concern a former lover whose knocking at...
  
  " – Dave Edmunds
  Dave Edmunds
  David 'Dave' Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early bands:As a teenager Edmunds first...
  
  
• "I Just Can't Help Believing
  I Just Can't Help Believing
  "I Just Can't Help Believing" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The song received its most success after being recorded by B.J. Thomas and released as a single in 1970...
  
  " – B. J. Thomas
  B. J. Thomas
  Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s—appearing on the pop, adult contemporary, country and Hot 100 charts.-Career:...
  
  
• "I'm Not My Brother's Keeper" – The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember was an American white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found commercial success starting in the late 1960's.The group originally formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. At that time, they were known as The Flaming Embers...
  
  
• "I Really Don't Want to Know" – Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• "I Think I Love You
  I Think I Love You
  "I Think I Love You" is a 1970 single by The Partridge Family, featuring David Cassidy, composed by songwriter Tony Romeo. The song was released at the same time as the debut of the network television sitcom The Partridge Family. During the show's first season the song was featured on the show...
  
  " – The Partridge Family
  The Partridge Family
  The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...
  
  
• "I Want You Back
  I Want You Back
  "I Want You Back" was released in 1969 and in early 1970s became a number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. The song, along with a b-side cover of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' "Who's Lovin' You", was the only single from the first Jackson 5 album, Diana Ross Presents...
  
  " – The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
• "I Will Survive" – Arrival
  Arrival (band)
  Arrival was a London-based close-harmony pop-rock band featuring singers originally from Liverpool. Following its appearance on Maynard Ferguson's 1970 UK television special and two chart hits, "Friends" and "I Will Survive", the band was booked to appear at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.After...
  
  
• "If I Were Your Woman
  If I Were Your Woman (song)
  "If I Were Your Woman" is a song recorded Gladys Knight & the Pips. The song was written by Pam Sawyer, Clay McMurray, and Gloria Jones and it was produced by McMurray. Released in late 1970 from the album of the same title, it spent one week at number-one on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart in...
  
  " – Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
  
  
• "If You Could Read My Mind" – Gordon Lightfoot
  Gordon Lightfoot
  Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" – Ronnie Dyson
  Ronnie Dyson
  Ronnie Dyson was an American singer and actor.-Career:Born in Washington, D.C., Dyson grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he sang in church choirs. At just 18 years of age, he won lead part in the Broadway production of Hair debuting in New York in 1968...
  
  
• "I'll Be There" – The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
• "I'll Never Fall in Love Again
  I'll Never Fall in Love Again
  "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" is a popular song by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. Originally written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, it soon became one of Bacharach and David's most enduring songs. It was nominated for Song of the Year in the 1969 Grammy awards...
  
  " – Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  
• "I'll Say Forever My Love" – Jimmy Ruffin
  Jimmy Ruffin
  Jimmy Ruffin is an American soul singer, and elder brother of the late David Ruffin of The Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."-Life:...
  
  
• "I'm A Man
  I'm A Man (Spencer Davis Group song)
  "I'm a Man" is a song written by Spencer Davis Group singer-songwriter Steve Winwood and record producer Jimmy Miller.-Original version by the Spencer Davis Group:...
  
  " – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "I'm Not My Brother's Keeper" – The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember was an American white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found commercial success starting in the late 1960's.The group originally formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. At that time, they were known as The Flaming Embers...
  
  
• "Immigrant Song
  Immigrant Song
  "Immigrant Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a single from their third album, Led Zeppelin III, in 1970.-Overview:...
  
  " – Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
  
• "In the Summertime" – Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry is an English rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset. They are remembered above all for their hit "In the Summertime". It remains their most successful and most...
  
  
• "Indiana Wants Me
  Indiana Wants Me
  "Indiana Wants Me" is a song written and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter R. Dean Taylor. It was released on the Rare Earth label, a subsidiary of Motown Records, in 1970, and was a top ten hit in both the US and UK....
  
  " – R. Dean Taylor
  R. Dean Taylor
  R. Dean Taylor is a Canadian singer, most famous as a recording artist, songwriter and record producer for Motown Records company during the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• "Instant Karma!
  Instant Karma!
  "Instant Karma!" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1970 on Apple Records, catalogue Apple 1003 in the United Kingdom, Apple 1818 in the United States. It is the third solo single issued by Lennon, and it peaked at #3 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 singles...
  
  " – John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  , Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
  
   with the Plastic Ono Band
• "It Don't Matter to Me" – Bread
  Bread (band)
  Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock....
  
  
• "It's a New Day (Parts 1 & 2)" – James Brown
• "It's a Shame
  It's a Shame
  "It's a Shame" may also refer to a 1970 single by American R & B band, The Spinners"It's a Shame" is the fourth and final single released by Kris Kross from their album, Totally Krossed Out.-History:...
  
  " – The Spinners
• "It's All in the Game" – Four Tops
  Four Tops
  The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
  
  
• "It's Impossible" – Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "It's Only Make Believe
  It's Only Make Believe
  "It's Only Make Believe" is the title of a song written by Jack Nance and American country music artist Conway Twitty, released by Twitty as a single in July 1958. The single topped both U.S...
  
  " – Glen Campbell
  Glen Campbell
  Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
  
  
• "I've Lost You" – Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• "(I Know) I'm Losing You" – Rare Earth
  Rare Earth (band)
  Rare Earth is an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label , who prospered in 1970-1972. Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first big hit-making act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members...
  
  
• "You've Got Me Dangling on a String" – Chairmen of the Board
• "5-10-15-20 (25–30 Years of Love)" – The Presidents
  The Presidents (band)
  The Presidents were an American soul group from Washington, D.C.. The group's members were Tony Boyd, Archie Powell, and Billy Shorter. The group scored a hit in the U.S. in 1970 with the Van McCoy produced track, "5-10-15-20 ", taken from the Sussex Records album of the same name...
  
  
• "Jam Up and Jelly Tight" – Tommy Roe
  Tommy Roe
  Tommy Roe is an American pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his hits "Sheila" and "Dizzy" , critic Bill Dahl wrote that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his...
  
  
• "Jennifer Tomkins" – Street People
  The Street People
  The Street People was the name of two American groups to score hits on the US Billboard charts in the 1970s.A group called The Street People hit #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with the song "Jennifer Tomkins". The group's vocalist was Rupert Holmes....
  
  
• "Jingle Jangle" – The Archies
  The Archies
  The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show...
  
  
• "Joanne" – Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
  Michael Nesmith
  Robert Michael Nesmith is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name...
  
  
• "Joy of Living" – Cliff
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
   & Hank
  Hank Marvin
  Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
  
  
• "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" – Bobby Sherman
  Bobby Sherman
  Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. , is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California...
  
  
• "Kentucky Rain
  Kentucky Rain
  "Kentucky Rain" was a 1970 hit song for Elvis Presley. Featuring then-unknown pianist Ronnie Milsap and written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard, the single peaked at number 16 on the pop charts....
  
  " – Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• "Knock Knock, Who's There?
  Knock Knock, Who's There?
  "Knock, Knock Who's There?", written and composed by John Carter and Geoff Stephens, produced by Mickie Most, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, performed by the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin....
  
  " – Mary Hopkin
  Mary Hopkin
  Mary Hopkin , credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were The Days". She was one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label....
  
  
• "Knock Three Times
  Knock Three Times
  "Knock Three Times" is a popular song credited to Tony Orlando and Dawn. The actual singers were Tony Orlando, Toni Wine, and Linda November, prior to the creation of "Dawn" with Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. The song was released as a single in November 1970, paired with Orlando's other...
  
  " – Tony Orlando and Dawn
  Tony Orlando and Dawn
  Tony Orlando and Dawn was a pop music group that was popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits include "Candida", "Knock Three Times", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", and "He Don't Love You ".-History:...
  
  
• "Lady D'Arbanville
  Lady D'Arbanville
  "Lady D'Arbanville" is a song written and recorded by Cat Stevens, and released in April, 1970. He was already a successful songwriter, and this was his first single released upon signing a contract with Island Records, with the encouragement of his new producer, Paul Samwell-Smith, fostering a...
  
  " – Cat Stevens
  Cat Stevens
  Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
  
   (all other versions were dubbed)
• "Lay A Little Lovin' On Me" – Robin McNamara
  Robin McNamara
  Robin McNamara is an American singer, songwriter and musician.In 1963, while in tenth grade, McNamara formed a rock and roll group with a few school mates; they christened their band Robin and the Hoods, performing locally in the New England area with McNamara as the lead vocalist...
  
  
• "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" – Melanie
  Melanie Safka
  Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
  
   with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
• "Leaving on a Jet Plane
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is a song written by John Denver in 1966 and most famously recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary. The original title of the song was "Oh Babe I Hate to Go" but Denver's then producer, Milt Okun, convinced him to change the title....
  
  " – Peter, Paul and Mary
  Peter, Paul and Mary
  Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk-singing trio whose nearly 50-year career began with their rise to become a paradigm for 1960s folk music. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers...
  
  
• "Let A Man Come in and Do the Popcorn (Part 2)" – James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• "Let It Be
  Let It Be (song)
  "Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band...
  
  " – The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  
• "Let's Work Together
  Let's Work Together
  "Let's Stick Together" or "Let's Work Together" as it was subsequently titled, is a blues song written by Wilbert Harrison, which was released in 1962...
  
  " – Canned Heat
  Canned Heat
  Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...
  
  
• "The Letter" – Joe Cocker
  Joe Cocker
  John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
  
   with Leon Russell
  Leon Russell
  Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
  
  
• "Little Green Bag
  Little Green Bag
  "Little Green Bag" is a 1969 song written by Dutch musicians, Jan Visser and George Baker , and recorded by the George Baker Selection at the band's own expense. The 7" single debut of the George Baker Selection was released by the label Negram. The B-side was "Pretty Little Dreamer"...
  
  " – George Baker Selection
• "Lola
  Lola (song)
  "Lola" is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by The Kinks which details a romantic encounter between a young man and a transvestite he meets in a club in Soho, London....
  
  " – The Kinks
  The Kinks
  The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...
  
  
• "Lonely Days
  Lonely Days
  "Lonely Days" is a 1970 song by the Bee Gees, featured on their album 2 Years On. The song incorporated the innovative structure and knack for changing tempos exemplified by the second side of The Beatles' Abbey Road album, released the previous year and a clear influence on this single...
  
  " – Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
  The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
  
  
• "The Long and Winding Road
  The Long and Winding Road
  "The Long and Winding Road" is a ballad written by Paul McCartney that originally appeared on The Beatles' album Let It Be. It became The Beatles' 20th and last number-one song in the United States on 23 May 1970, and was the last single released by the quartet...
  
  " – The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  
• "Long Lonesome Highway" – Michael Parks
  Michael Parks
  Michael Parks is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in almost fifty films and has made frequent TV appearances, but is probably best known for his work in recent years with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith as well as the 1969 television series Then Came...
  
  
• "Long Long Time" – Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
  
• "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" – The New Seekers
  The New Seekers
  The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences...
  
  
• "Looking Out My Back Door" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
  
• "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
  Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
  "Love Grows " is a popular song by "one-hit wonder" Edison Lighthouse. The single hit the number one spot on the UK singles chart on the week ending on 31 January 1970, where it remained for a total of five weeks.- Song profile :...
  
  " – Edison Lighthouse
  Edison Lighthouse
  Edison Lighthouse was a UK pop group, initially a studio-only assemblage that served as a vehicle for session vocalist Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, are best known for their 1970 UK chart-topper and million-selling record, "Love Grows ".-Career:The...
  
  
• "Love Land" – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering American soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973 when the band had 9 singles reach Billboard's pop and/or rhythm and blues Hot 100 lists, such as "Do Your Thing" , "Till You Get...
  
  
• "Love of the Common People
  Love of the Common People (song)
  "Love of the Common People" is a folk ballad written and composed by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins and first released in January 1967 by The Four Preps...
  
  " – Nicky Thomas
  Nicky Thomas
  Nicky Thomas was a reggae singer who enjoyed considerable chart success in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Love on a Two Way Street" – The Moments
  Ray, Goodman & Brown
  Ray, Goodman & Brown is an American R&B vocal group. The group originated as The Moments, who formed in the mid-1960s and whose greatest successes came in the 1970s with hits including "Love on a Two-Way Street", "Sexy Mama" and "Look at Me "...
  
  
• "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" – The Friends of Distinction
• "Love the One You're With
  Love the One You're With
  "Love the One You're With" is a 1970 single by folk rocker Stephen Stills. The first release off his first solo album Stephen Stills, it rose to the top twenty of the pop singles chart, peaking at No. 14....
  
  " – Stephen Stills
  Stephen Stills
  Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
  
  
• "The Love You Save
  The Love You Save
  "The Love You Save" is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart for six weeks. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 27 to July 4, 1970...
  
  " – The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
• "Lucretia MacEvil" – Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears is an American music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles...
  
  
• "Ma Belle Amie" – The Tee Set
• "Make It Easy on Yourself
  Make It Easy On Yourself
  "Make It Easy On Yourself" is a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David which was first a hit for Jerry Butler in 1962 and has since been a Top 40 single for the Walker Brothers - for whom it was a #1 UK hit - and Dionne Warwick.-Jerry Butler:...
  
  " – Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  
• "Make It with You
  Make It with You
  "Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop/rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member.The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album On the Waters...
  
  " – Bread
  Bread (band)
  Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock....
  
  
• "Make Me Smile
  Make Me Smile
  "Make Me Smile" is a song written by James Pankow for the rock band Chicago. Part of Pankow's Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon song cycle/suite, it was recorded for their second album Chicago II...
  
  " – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "Mama Told Me Not to Come
  Mama Told Me Not to Come
  "Mama Told Me " is a song by Randy Newman written for Eric Burdon's first solo album in 1966. Three Dog Night's 1970 cover of the song topped the U.S. pop singles charts.-Newman original and first recordings:...
  
  " – Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
  
  
• "Me And My Life" – The Tremeloes
  The Tremeloes
  The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
  
  
• "Midnight Cowboy" – Ferrante & Teicher
  Ferrante & Teicher
  Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.-Career:...
  
  
• "Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
  Mountain (band)
  Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today...
  
  
• "Mongoose" – Elephant's Memory
  Elephant's Memory
  Elephant's Memory was a New York band, most notable for backing John Lennon and Yoko Ono during 1972 on a pair of albums, and a handful of TV and live appearances, including the John Lennon "One To One Concert", with two performances the 30th of August 1972 to benefit the Willowbrook School for...
  
  
• "Montego Bay
  Montego Bay (song)
  "Montego Bay" is a song by Bobby Bloom about the city in Jamaica. The song was a Top 10 hit for Bloom in September 1970 on both sides of the Atlantic. It reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart, #5 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles Chart, #7 on the Australian Go-Set Singles Chart and #8 on the US...
  
  " – Bobby Bloom
  Bobby Bloom
  Robert "Bobby" Bloom was an American singer-songwriter. He is known best for being a one-hit wonder with the 1970 song, "Montego Bay," which was co-written with and produced by Jeff Barry.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Most of All" – B. J. Thomas
  B. J. Thomas
  Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s—appearing on the pop, adult contemporary, country and Hot 100 charts.-Career:...
  
  
• "Mr. Bojangles
  Mr. Bojangles (song)
  Mr. Bojangles is the title of a song originally written and recorded by American country music artist Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1968 album of the same title...
  
  " – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
  
  
• "My Baby Loves Lovin'" – White Plains
  White Plains (band)
  White Plains were a British pop music group, that existed from 1969 to 1976.-Career:White Plains evolved from the late 1960s pop/psychedelic band The Flower Pot Men, composed of Tony Burrows, Pete Nelson, and Robin Shaw together with Neil Landon . The band was primarily a studio project led by John...
  
  
• "My Sweet Lord
  My Sweet Lord
  "My Sweet Lord" is a song by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison from his UK number one hit triple album All Things Must Pass. The song was written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna...
  
  " – George Harrison
  George Harrison
  George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
  
  
• "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band they named "Steam". It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969,...
  
  " – Steam
  Steam (band)
  Steam was a pop-rock music group best known for the 1969 number one hit song and perennial favorite "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Garrett DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City...
  
  
• "Natural Sinner" – Fair Weather
  Fair Weather
  Fair Weather was a British rock band formed in 1970 by former Amen Corner guitarist and vocalist, Andy Fairweather Low. They are best known for their track, "Natural Sinner".-Biography:The band evolved from a split within Amen Corner...
  
  
• "Neanderthal Man
  Neanderthal Man (song)
  "Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs, an English pop band that was later relaunched as 10cc. The song, initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment, sold over two million copies and reached No.2 in the UK and No. 22 in the US...
  
  " – Hotlegs
  Hotlegs
  Hotlegs was a short-lived English band best known for its hit single "Neanderthal Man" in 1970. The band consisted of Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and – briefly – Graham Gouldman...
  
  
• "Never Had a Dream Come True" – Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  
• "New World in the Morning" – Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of over 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability...
  
  
• "No Matter What" – Badfinger
  Badfinger
  Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969,...
  
  
• "No Time" – The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
  
• "Ohio
  Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)
  "Ohio" is a protest song written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It was released as a single, backed with Stephen Stills's "Find the Cost of Freedom," peaking at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "One Less Bell to Answer" – The 5th Dimension
• "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – Neil Young
  Neil Young
  Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
  
  
• "Ooh Child" – The Five Stairsteps
  The Five Stairsteps
  The Five Stairsteps, known as "The First Family of Soul", were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth "Keni", and briefly, Cubie...
  
  
• "Our House
  Our House (CSNY song)
  "Our House" is a song written by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash, most famously recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their 1970 album Déjà Vu. It reached #30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song refers to Nash's brief affair with Joni Mitchell at the time Crosby, Stills Nash and...
  
  " – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "Out In the Country" – Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
  
  
• "Overture from Tommy (A Rock Opera)" – The Assembled Multitude
  The Assembled Multitude
  The Assembled Multitude was an instrumental ensemble, consisting entirely of studio musicians, which music producer Tom Sellers organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970...
  
  
• "Paranoid
  Paranoid (song)
  "Paranoid" is a song by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid . It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
  
  
• " Patches" – Clarence Carter
  Clarence Carter
  Clarence Carter is a blind American soul singer and musician.-Life and career:Born in Montgomery, Alabama on 14 January 1936, Carter attended the Alabama School for the Blind in Talladega, Alabama, and Alabama State College in Montgomery, graduating in August 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree...
  
  
• "Psychedelic Shack
  Psychedelic Shack (song)
  "Psychedelic Shack" is a 1969 single for the Motown label performed by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield. It became a hit single in 1970....
  
  " – The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  
• "Puppet Man" – The 5th Dimension
• "Question" – The Moody Blues
  The Moody Blues
  The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed....
  
  
• "Rainbow" – Marmalade
  Marmalade (band)
  Marmalade were a successful Scottish pop rock group, from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". In 1966, they changed the group name to 'The Marmalade'. The most successful period for the band, in terms of UK chart success, was...
  
  
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
  "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
  
  " – B. J. Thomas
  B. J. Thomas
  Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s—appearing on the pop, adult contemporary, country and Hot 100 charts.-Career:...
  
  
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
  "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
  
  " – Bobbie Gentry
  Bobbie Gentry
  Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is a former American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material...
  
  
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
  "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
  
  " – Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...
  
   (dubbed)
• "Rainy Night In Georgia
  Rainy Night in Georgia
  "Rainy Night in Georgia" is a song written by Tony Joe White in 1962 and popularized by R&B vocalist Brook Benton in 1970.In 1969, after several years without a major hit, Benton had signed to a new record label, Cotillion Records...
  
  " – Brook Benton
  Brook Benton
  Brook Benton was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just A Matter Of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.He made a comeback in 1970...
  
  
• "The Rapper" – The Jaggerz
  The jaggerz
  The Jaggerz are a pop/rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, often considered a one-hit wonder because their only major success was the single "The Rapper", written by Donnie Iris...
  
  
• "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)
  Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)
  "Reach Out and Touch " was the debut solo single for Motown singer Diana Ross, released in April 1970.Ross, having just left The Supremes after a decade of serving as that group's lead singer, went through a difficult situation trying to piece a solo album together...
  
  " – Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
• "Reflections of My Life
  Reflections of My Life
  "Reflections of My Life" was a 1969 hit single for the Scottish band, The Marmalade. It was written by their lead guitarist Junior Campbell, and singer Dean Ford . Released in late 1969, it was the band's first release on Decca following an earlier spell at CBS...
  
  " – Marmalade
  Marmalade (band)
  Marmalade were a successful Scottish pop rock group, from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". In 1966, they changed the group name to 'The Marmalade'. The most successful period for the band, in terms of UK chart success, was...
  
  
• "Remember Me" – Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
• "Ride Captain Ride" – Blues Image
• "Rubber Duckie" – Ernie
  Ernie
  Ernie is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. He and his roommate Bert form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Ernie acting the role of the naïve troublemaker and Bert the world-weary foil...
  
   (Jim Henson
  Jim Henson
  James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...
  
  )
• "Ruby Tuesday" – Melanie
  Melanie Safka
  Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
  
  
• "Save the Country" – The 5th Dimension
• "See Me, Feel Me
  See Me, Feel Me
  "See Me Feel Me" is a portion of the song "We're Not Gonna Take It" written by Pete Townshend of The Who. The song is the finale of the Tommy album. "See Me Feel Me", followed by the refrain of "Listening To You" was performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival as the sun was rising and almost half a...
  
  " – The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
  
• "Share the Land" – The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
  
• "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
  She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
  "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is a song written by Paul McCartney and performed by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road as part of the Abbey Road medley.-Origin:...
  
  " – Joe Cocker
  Joe Cocker
  John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
  
  
• "Shilo
  Shilo (song)
  "Shilo" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond.It was originally recorded in 1967 for Bang Records, but Diamond and Bang founder Bert Berns disagreed over Diamond's career path...
  
  " – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
  Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
  "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" is a soul single by American musician Stevie Wonder, recorded for Motown's Tamla label. Released in June 1970, the song spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B chart and peaked at number three on the U.S. Pop chart...
  
  " – Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  
• "Silver Bird" – Mark Lindsay
  Mark Lindsay
  Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the singer for the group Paul Revere & the Raiders.-Biography:Lindsay was born in Eugene, Oregon and was the second of eight children...
  
  
• "Sly, Slick & The Wicked" – Lost Generation
  Lost Generation
  The "Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation, actually a cohort, that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to...
  
  
• "Snowbird
  Snowbird (song)
  "Snowbird" is a song by the Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan. Though it has been recorded by many performers , it is best known through Anne Murray's 1970 version, which launched her into a long career of international exposure. It was a #2 hit on Canada's pop chart and went to #1 on both the...
  
  " – Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
  
• "Solitary Man" – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Somebody's Been Sleeping" – 100 Proof
  100 Proof
  100 Proof is an independently produced American thriller, written and directed by Jeremy Horton. Shot on location in Kentucky, it is based on the true story of a killing spree that took place in Lexington in 1986. Two women, LaFonda Fay Foster and Tina Hickey Powell, murdered five people in the...
  
  
• "Someday We'll Be Together
  Someday We'll Be Together
  "Someday We'll Be Together" is a song made popular as the last of twelve number-one singles for Diana Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. It is the final Supremes song featuring Diana Ross, who left the group for a solo career in January 1970...
  
  " – Diana Ross & the Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
• "Something
  Something
  "Something" is a song by The Beatles, written by lead guitarist George Harrison in 1969. It was featured on the album Abbey Road, and was also the first song written by Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles' single...
  
  " – Shirley Bassey
  Shirley Bassey
  Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
  
  
• "Something's Burning" – Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
  The First Edition
  The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
  
  
• "Son of a Preacher Man
  Son of a Preacher Man
  "Son of a Preacher Man" is a song recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 and featured on the album, Dusty in Memphis. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. The rights to cover "Son of a Preacher Man" were originally offered to Aretha Franklin, who turned it down...
  
  " – Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "A Song of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)" – Miguel Rios
  Miguel Ríos
  Miguel Ríos is a Spanish singer, composer, actor. He is one of the pioneers of rock and roll in Spain.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Soolaimon (African Trilogy II)" – Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
  
  
• "Spill the Wine
  Spill the Wine
  "Spill the Wine" is a 1970 song performed by Eric Burdon and War. Released as a single in May 1970 , it was War's first chart hit, peaking at number three. It was also a top three hit in Canada and Australia...
  
  " – Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
   & War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
  
• "Spirit in the Dark" – Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• "Spirit in the Sky
  Spirit in the Sky
  "Spirit in the Sky" is a song written and originally recorded by Norman Greenbaum and released in 1969. The single sold two million copies in 1969 and 1970 and reached number three in the U.S. Billboard chart, as well as number one on the UK, Australian and Canadian charts in 1970. Rolling Stone...
  
  " – Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum is an American singer-songwriter. He was raised in a traditional Jewish household and went to Hebrew school. His initial interest in music was sparked by Southern blues music and the folk music that was hugely popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
  
• "Stand By Your Man
  Stand By Your Man
  "Stand by Your Man" is a song co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA...
  
  " – Candi Staton
  Candi Staton
  Candi Staton is an American soul and gospel singer, best known for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Steal Away" – Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Harrison Taylor was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Still Water (Love)
  Still Water (Love)
  "Still Water " is a 1970 hit single written by Smokey Robinson and Frank Wilson, who also produced the track for Motown singing group The Four Tops, who took the song to the top ten of the UK pop charts and the top twenty of the US pop chart...
  
  " – Four Tops
  Four Tops
  The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
  
  
• "Stoned Love
  Stoned Love
  "Stoned Love" is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the last Billboard Pop Top Ten hit for the group, peaking at number seven, and their last Billboard number-one R&B hit as well, although the trio continued to score top ten hits in the UK into 1972...
  
  " – The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
• "Stoney End" – Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
  
  
• "Stop the War Now" – Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War".-Biography:...
  
  
• "Sugar Sugar" – Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
  
  
• "Summertime Blues
  Summertime Blues
  "Summertime Blues" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American rockabilly artist Eddie Cochran. It was written in the late 1950s by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally a single B-side, it was released in August 1958 and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on...
  
  " – The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
  
• "Super Bad (Parts 1 & 2)" – James Brown
• "Sweet Inspiration" – Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon
  Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon
  Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon were a U.S. vocal soul group, prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Originally known simply as The Bandwagon, they were formed in 1967 and featured Artie Fullilove, Billy Bradley, Terry Lewis and lead singer Johnny Johnson Johnny Johnson and the...
  
  
• "Take a Letter Maria" – R. B. Greaves
  R. B. Greaves
  Ronald Bertram Aloysius "R. B." Greaves III is a singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single "Take a Letter Maria". A #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, this single sold one million copies and earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America...
  
  
• "Teach Your Children
  Teach Your Children
  "Teach Your Children" is a song by Graham Nash. Although it was written when Nash was a member of The Hollies, it was never recorded by that group, and first appeared on the album Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released in 1970. The recording features Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar...
  
  " – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "The Tears of a Clown
  The Tears of a Clown
  "The Tears of a Clown" is a song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla label, originally released on the 1967 album Make It Happen. It was re-released in the United Kingdom as a single in September 1970, where it became a #1 hit on the UK singles chart...
  
  " – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  The Miracles
  The Miracles are an American rhythm and blues group from Detroit, Michigan, notable as the first successful group act for Berry Gordy's Motown Record Corporation . Their single "Shop Around" was Motown's first million-selling hit record, and the group went on to become one of Motown's signature...
  
  
• "Tell It All, Brother" – Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
  The First Edition
  The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
  
  
• "Temma Harbour" – Mary Hopkin
  Mary Hopkin
  Mary Hopkin , credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were The Days". She was one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label....
  
  
• "Temptation Eyes" – The Grass Roots
  The Grass Roots
  The Grass Roots is an American rock band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri.In their career, The Grass Roots achieved two gold albums, one gold single and charted singles a total of 21 times. Among their charting singles, they...
  
  
• "Tennessee Bird Walk" – Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
  Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
  Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan is an American country music duo from Florida. It is composed of guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Jack Blanchard and his wife, keyboardist/vocalist Misty Morgan . The duo recorded for several labels in the 1970s, including the charting albums Birds of a Feather and Two...
  
  
• "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
  Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
  "Thank You " is a 1969 hit single recorded by Sly and the Family Stone, recognized as one of the greatest and most influential funk songs of all time. The song, double a-sided with "Everybody Is a Star", reached number one on the soul single charts for five weeks, and reached number one on the...
  
  " – Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music...
  
  
• "That's Where I Went Wrong" – Poppy Family
• "The Thrill Is Gone" – B. B. King
  B. B. King
  Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...
  
  
• "Ticket to Ride
  Ticket to Ride
  "Ticket to Ride" is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 and released two months later. -Composition:...
  
  " – The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
  
  
• "Tighter, Tighter" – Alive and Kicking
  Alive N Kickin'
  Alive N Kickin’ is a Brooklyn band, led by singers Pepe Cardona and Sandy Toder, known mainly for their 1970 hit single "Tighter, Tighter" which reached #7 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart...
  
  
• "Tobacco Road
  Tobacco Road (song)
  "Tobacco Road" is a song written and first recorded by John D. Loudermilk in 1960 that was a hit for The Nashville Teens in 1964 and has since become a standard across several musical genres....
  
  " – Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
   & War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
  
• "Tracy" – The Cuff Links
  The Cuff Links
  The Cuff Links were an American rock/pop studio group from Staten Island, New York. The band had a U.S. No. 9 hit in 1969 with "Tracy", with rich harmonised vocals provided entirely by Ron Dante...
  
  
• "Travelin' Band
  Travelin' Band
  "Travelin' Band" is a song written by John Fogerty and originally recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was included on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. Backed with "Who'll Stop the Rain", it was one of three double sided singles from that album to reach the top five on the U.S...
  
  " – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
  
• "Turn Back the Hands of Time" – Tyrone Davis
  Tyrone Davis
  Tyrone Davis , born Tyrone Fettson, was a leading American soul singer with a distinctive style, recording a long list of hit records over a period of more than 20 years. He had three no...
  
  
• "25 or 6 to 4
  25 or 6 to 4
  "25 or 6 to 4" is a song written by American musician Robert Lamm, one of the founding members of the rock/jazz fusion band Chicago. It was recorded for their second album, Chicago , with Peter Cetera on lead vocals. The song was edited and released as a single in June of the year 2009, climbing to...
  
  " – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "Ugena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" – The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  
• "United We Stand
  United We Stand (song)
  "United We Stand" is a popular song by Tony Hiller and Peter Simmons. It was first recorded in 1970 by The Brotherhood of Man , becoming the band's first hit, peaking at #13 in the U.S., #9 in Canada, and #10 in the U.K. It is considered a worldwide standard and has been recorded by over 100...
  
  " – The Brotherhood of Man
• "Up Around the Bend
  Up Around the Bend
  "Up Around the Bend" is a song recorded by the American band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and written by the band's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, John Fogerty...
  
  " – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
  
• "Up on Cripple Creek
  Up on Cripple Creek
  "Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on The Band's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as a single in November 1969 and reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – The Band
  The Band
  The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
  
  
• "Up the Ladder to the Roof
  Up the Ladder to the Roof
  "Up the Ladder to the Roof" is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the first Supremes single to feature new lead singer Jean Terrell in place of Diana Ross, who officially left the group for a solo career two weeks before the recording of this song in January 1970...
  
  " – The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
• "Vehicle" – The Ides of March
• "Venus" – Shocking Blue
  Shocking Blue
  Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 1967. Their biggest hit, "Venus", went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13.5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.-Members:...
  
  
• "Viva Tirado (Part 1)" – El Chicano
  El Chicano
  El Chicano is an American chicano rock and brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporates various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa...
  
  
• "Voodoo Chile
  Voodoo Chile
  "Voodoo Chile" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded in 1968, closing Side 1 of The Jimi Hendrix Experience album Electric Ladyland. The song is Hendrix's longest studio recording and features additional musicians in what has been described as a "studio jam"...
  
  " – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...
  
  
• "Walk a Mile in My Shoes
  Walk A Mile In My Shoes
  "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" is a song written by Joe South, who had a hit with it in 1970. The song concerns racial tolerance and the need for perspective and compassion.-Notable covers and references:*Elvis Presley on his 1970 live album On Stage...
  
  " – Joe South
  Joe South
  Joe South is a multi-talented American singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Career:...
  
  
• "Wand'rin' Star
  Wand'rin' Star
  "Wand'rin' Star" was a UK number one single for Lee Marvin for three weeks in March 1970.It was originally written by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe for the stage musical Paint Your Wagon in 1951. When the film of the musical was made in 1969, Lee Marvin took the role of prospector Ben Rumson...
  
  " – Lee Marvin
  Lee Marvin
  Lee Marvin was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou , he landed more...
  
  
• "War" – Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War".-Biography:...
  
  
• "We Gotta Get You a Woman" – Runt (Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Todd Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings...
  
  )
• "Westbound #9" – The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember was an American white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found commercial success starting in the late 1960's.The group originally formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. At that time, they were known as The Flaming Embers...
  
  
• "We've Only Just Begun
  We've Only Just Begun
  "We've Only Just Begun" is the signature song of The Carpenters, written by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams , and is often used as a wedding song. The song was ranked at #405 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".The song was recorded by Smokey Roberds, a friend...
  
  " – The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
  
  
• "What Is Truth
  What Is Truth
  "What Is Truth" is a single by American country music artist Johnny Cash released in February 1970. The song peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada....
  
  " – Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  
• "When I'm Dead And Gone
  When I'm Dead and Gone
  "When I'm Dead and Gone" is a song written by Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. It was recorded and released in November 1970 as the debut single by McGuinness Flint, peaked at No. 2 in the UK charts the following month, and reached No. 47 in the US charts a few weeks later...
  
  " – McGuinness Flint
  McGuinness Flint
  McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle...
  
  
• "Which Way You Goin' Billy?
  Which Way You Goin' Billy?
  Which Way You Goin' Billy?, released in 1969, was the first album from Vancouver, British Columbia band The Poppy Family. They scored their biggest hit with title track "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" which went to #1 in Canada and #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S...
  
  " – Poppy Family
• "Whole Lotta Love
  Whole Lotta Love
  "Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is featured as the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States and Japan as a single. The US release became their first hit single, it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970, when it...
  
  " – Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
  
• "Whole Lotta Love" – C.C.S.
• "Who'll Stop the Rain
  Who'll Stop the Rain (song)
  "Who'll Stop the Rain" is a song written by John Fogerty and originally recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival for their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory...
  
  " – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
  
• "Who's Your Baby" – The Archies
  The Archies
  The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show...
  
  
• "The Witch" – The Rattles
  The Rattles
  The Rattles are a rock band from Germany. Their biggest selling record was their 1968 recorded song, "The Witch", which sold over one million copies globally.-Career:...
  
  
• "The Witch's Promise"/"Teacher" – Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
  
  
• "Without Love" – Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "The Wonder of You
  The Wonder of You
  "The Wonder of You" is a song written by Baker Knight. In 1959, Ray Peterson released it as a single. The song became a Top 40 hit for him on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #25. That same year it was recorded by Ronnie Hilton in the United Kingdom, his version reaching #22 on the UK Singles...
  
  "/"Mama Liked the Roses" – Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" – Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• "Woodstock
  Woodstock (song)
  "Woodstock" is a song about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969.Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard from then-boyfriend, Graham Nash, about the festival. She had not been there herself, since she was told it would be more advantageous to appear on The Dick Cavett Show by...
  
  " – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "Woodstock" – Matthews Southern Comfort
• "Yellow River
  Yellow River (song)
  "Yellow River" is a popular song recorded by the British band Christie. Written by band leader Jeff Christie, the song was offered to The Tremeloes, who recorded it with the intention of releasing it as a single early in 1970...
  
  " – Christie
  Christie (band)
  Christie were an English rock band formed at the end of the 1960s. They are best remembered for their UK chart-topping hit single, "Yellow River" released in 1970.-Career:...
  
  
• "You Can Get It If You Really Want" – Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007 " and "It Miek"...
  
  
• "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is the title of a 1966 hit recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley , Guys 'n' Dolls and Denise Welch with Presley's version...
  
  " – Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)" – Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
  
  
• "Young, Gifted and Black
  Young, Gifted and Black
  Young, Gifted and Black is a Top 10 Gold-certified album by Aretha Franklin, released in 1972. It takes its title from the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", which is the record's title track....
  
  " – Bob and Marcia
  Bob and Marcia
  Bob and Marcia were a Jamaican vocal duo, that consisted of Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths. They had a #5 UK hit single in 1970 with "Young, Gifted and Black". They followed up with "Pied Piper", which peaked at #11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1971. Those two releases spent a total of twenty five...