70s Music Mayhem: 1970

In order to help readers keep track of which songs have been reviewed on this blog, I'll keep this page updated as I add more posts. Just click on the date to see the full review:

1970

Updated July 14, 2012

January 3, 1970

Joe South - "Walk a Mile in My Shoes"
Sly & the Family Stone - "Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)" b/w "Everybody is a Star"
The 5th Dimension - "Blowing Away"
The Rascals - "Hold On"
The Street People - "Jennifer Tompkins"
The New Hope - "Won't Find Better (Than Me)"
Gene Pitney - "She Lets Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)"
The Berlin Philharmonic - "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Rotary Connection - "I Want You to Know"
Candi Staton - "I'm Just a Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')"
Joe Simon - "Moon Walk (Part 1)"

January 17, 1970

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Country Preacher"
The Chairman of the Board - "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
Nazz - "Hello it's Me"
Glen Campbell - "Honey Come Back"
Little Milton - "If Walls Could Talk"
The Temptations - "Psychedelic Shack"
The Flaming Ember - "Shades of Green"
Donny Hathaway - "The Ghetto (Part 1)"
Brenda & the Tabulations - "The Touch of You"

January 24, 1970

Santana - "Evil Ways"
Johnny Cash & June Carter - "If I Were a Carpenter"
The Dells - "Oh, What a Day"
The Tee Set - "Ma Belle Amie"
Sonny James - "It's Just a Matter of Time"
Roy Clark - "Then She's a Lover"
R.B. Greaves - "Always Something There to Remind Me"
Jerry Butler - "Got to See if I Can't Get Mommy (To Come Back Home)"
Cold Blood - "You Got Me Hummin'"
Steam - "I've Gotta Make You Love Me"

March 14, 1970

The Jackson 5 - "ABC"
Jimmy Cliff - "Come into My Life"
Bobbi Martin - "For the Love of Him"
Rare Earth - "Get Ready"
Charley Pride - "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone"
Ray Charles - "Laughin' and Clownin'"
Led Zeppelin - "Livin' Lovin' Maid (She's Just a Woman)"
Marty Robbins - "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"
Marmalade - "Reflections of My Life"
Lou Rawls - "You've made me So Very Happy"

April 25, 1970

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around the Bend" b/w "Run Through the Jungle"
Diana Ross - "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"
Lulu with the Dixie Flyers - "Hum a Song (From Your Heart)"
Guy Drake - "Welfare Cadillac"
Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
R.B. Greaves - "Fire and Rain"
Freda Payne - "Band of Gold"
Jesse Anderson - "I Got a Problem"
The Street People - "Thank You Girl"
Oliver - "Angelica"
Bobby Womack - "More Than I Can Stand"
The Four Tops - "It's All in the Game"
The Fabulous Counts - "Get Down People"

May 20, 1970

The Beatles - "The Long and Winding Road" b/w "For You Blue"
The Pipkins - "Gimme Dat Ding"
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - "Who's Gonna Take the Blame"
Aretha Fraklin with the Dixie Flyers - "Spirit in the Dark"
Sly & the Family Stone - "I Want to Take You Higher"
Ike & Tina Turner - "I Want to Take You Higher"
The Temptations - "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)"
Three Dog Night - "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"
Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - "Free the People"
Ginger Baker's Air Force - "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Luther Ingram - "Ain't That Loving You (For More Resons Than One)"
The Flaming Ember - "Westbound #9"
Eric Burdon & War - "Spill the Wine"
Little Richard - "Freedom Blues"

June 13, 1970

Miguel Rios - "A Song of Joy"
Al DeLory - "Song From M*A*S*H"
Norman Greenbaum - "Canned Ham"
Marvin Gaye - The End of Our Road"
The 5th Dimension - "Save the Country"
Mark Lindsay - "Silver Bird"
Bread - "Make it With You"
Daybreak - "Good Morning Freedom"
The Ray Charles Singers - "Move Me, O Wond'rous Music"
Tammy Wynette - "He Loves Me All the Way"

June 20, 1970

The Carpenters - "(They Long to Be) Close to You"
B.J. Thomas - "I Just Can't Help Believing"
Ronnie Dyson - "(If You Let Me Make Love to You) Why Can't I Touch You"
The Intruders - "When We Get Married"
Tommy Roe - "Pearl"
The George Baker Selection - "Dear Ann"
Neil Young With Crazy Horse - "Cinnamon Girl"
The Manhattans - "If My Heart Could Speak"
The Satisfactions - "This Bitter Earth"
Turley Richards - "I Heard the Voice of Jesus"

July 1, 1970

Glen Campbell - "Everything a Man Could Ever Need"
The Ides of March - "Superman"
Jose Feliciano - "Destiny" b/w "Susie Q"
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition - "Tell it All Brother"
The Archies - "Sunshine"
Conway Twitty - "Hello Darlin'"
Charley Pride - "Wonder Could I Live There Anymore"
Paul Kelly - "Stealing in the Name of the Lord"
The Meters - "Hand Clapping Song"
Daybreak - "Good Morning Freedom"
Kool & the Gang - "Let the Music Take Your Mind"
Turley Richards - "I Heard the Voice of Jesus"

July 18, 1970

James Brown - "Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine (Parts 1 and 2)"
The Supremes - "Everybody's Got the Right to Love"
Ann Murray - "Snowbird"
The Guess Who - "Hand Me Down World"
Clarence Carter - "Patches"
McKinley Travis - "Baby, Is There Something On Your Mind"
Buddy Miles and the Freedom Express - "Down By the River"
Jim Campbell - "The Lights of Tucson"
Christie - "Yellow River"
The Glass House - "I Can't Be You (You Can't Be Me)"
The Dells - "Long Lonely Nights"

August 1, 1970

Rare Earth - (I Know I'm Losing You)"
Bobby Sherman - "Julie, Do Ya Love Me"
Blood, Sweat & Tears - "Hi-De-Ho"
Elvis Presley - "I've Lost You" b/w "The Next Step is Love"
Miss Abrams & the Strawberry Point 3rd Grade Class - "Mill Valley"
The Caboose - "Black Hands White Cotton"
Dave Mason - Only You Know and I Know"
The Chairmen of the Board - "Everything's Tuesday"
Joe Simon - "Yours Love"
Tommy James - Ball and Chain"
Mama Cass Elliot - "A Song That Never Comes"
Lou Rawls - "Bring it On Home"

August 8, 1970

Diana Ross - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Lookin' Out My Back Door" b/w/ "Long as I Can See the Light"
Aretha Franklin with the Dixie Flyers - "Don't Play That Song"
Michael Nesmith and the First National Band - "Joanne"
Jackie DeShannon - "It's So Nice"
Elephant's Memory - "Mongoose"
Bert Sommer - "We're All Playing in the Same Band"
Tony Joe White - "Save Your Sugar For Me"
Marmalade - "Rainbow"
The Grateful Dead - "Uncle John's Band"
The Poppy Family featuring Susan Jacks - "That's Where I Went Wrong"