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"
 
September 5, 1970
  • The New Seekers - "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma"
  • 100 Proof Aged in Soul - "Somebody's Been Sleeping"
  • Glen Campbell - "It's Only Make Believe"
  • R. Dean Taylor - "Indiana Wants Me"
  • Little Richard - "Greenwood Mississippi"
  • The Impressions - "(Baby) Turn On to Me"
  • Brian Hyland - "Gypsy Woman"
  • Traffic - "Empty Pages"
  • Mavis Staples - "I Have Learned to Do Without You"
  • The O'Jays - "Looky Looky (Look at Me Girl)"
  • Johnny Rivers & Friends - "Fire and Rain"
November 7, 1970
  • The Supremes - "Stoned Love"
  • Neil Diamond - "He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother"
  • Chicago - "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?"
  • Andy Kim - "Be My Baby"
  • Neil Diamond - "Do it"
  • Clarence Carter - "It's All in Your Mind"
  • Fantasy - "Stoned Cowboy"
  • The Crystal Mansion - "Carolina in My Mind"
  • Ray Stevens - "Sunset Strip"
  • Gene Chandler - "Simply Call it Love"
  • Redeye - "Games"
  • Dunn and McCashen - "Alright in the City"
  • The Mike Curb Congregation - "Burning Bridges"
  • The Flame - "See the Light"
  • Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - "I Gotta Let You Go"
  • Ringo Starr - "Beaucoups of Blues"

November 28, 1970
  • Donnie Elbert - "Can't Get Over Losing You"
  • Gladys Knight & the Pips - "If I Were Your Woman"
  • B.J. Thomas - "Most of All"
  • George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't it a Pity"
  • Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
  • The Supremes & The Four Tops - "River Deep, Mountain High"
  • Lynn Anderson - "Rose Garden"
  • Michael Nesmith & the First National Band - "Silver Moon"
  • Free - "The Stealer"
  • Robert John - "When the Party is Over"
  • Elton John - "Your Song"
December 26, 1970
  • Elvis Presley - "I Really Don't Want to Know"/"There Goes My Everything"
  • The Grass Roots - "Temptation Eyes"
  • Diana Ross - "Remember Me"
  • Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"
  • Liz Damon's Orient Express - "1900 Yesterday"
  • Bobby Goldsboro - "Watching Scotty Grow"
  • Jr. Walker & the All-Stars - "Holly Holy"
  • Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking"
  • Little Anthony & the Imperials - "Help Me Find a Way (To Say I Love You)"
  • Brook Benton with the Dixie Flyers - "Shoes"
  • Wadsworth Mansion - "Sweet Mary"
  • The Jazz Crusaders - "Way Back Home"
  • Betty Everett - "I Got to Tell Somebody"