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It’s November, 1970

Written by

Thomas Scovell

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We’re nearly done with our first year of our 3rd decade, my how time flies at 4x life…let’s listen to the sounds of November, 1970!

Songs of the month

  • [new] “5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love)” – Presidents
  • [new] “After Midnight” – Eric Clapton
  • “All Right Now” – Free
  • [new] “Black Magic Woman” – Santana
  • “Candida” – Dawn
  • “Cracklin’ Rosie” – Neil Diamond
  • “Cry Me A River” – Joe Cocker
  • [new] “Deeper And Deeper” – Freda Payne
  • [new] “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” – Chicago
  • “El Condor Pasa” – Simon & Garfunkel
  • “Engine #9” – Wilson Pickett
  • [new] “Engine Number 9” – Wilson Pickett
  • “Express Yourself” – Charles Wright & Watts 103Rd Street Rhythm Band
  • “Fire And Rain” – James Taylor
  • [new] “For The Good Times” – Ray Price
  • [new] “God Loved And Rock And Roll” – Teagarden & Van Winkle
  • “Green Eyed Lady” – Sugarloaf
  • [new] “Green-Eyed Lady” – Sugarloaf
  • [new] “Gypsy Woman” – Brian Hyland
  • [new] “Heaven Help Us All” – Stevie Wonder
  • “I Think I Love You” – Partridge Family
  • “I’ll Be There” – Jackson Five
  • “Indiana Wants Me” – R. Dean Taylor
  • “It Don’t Matter To Me” – Bread
  • “It’s Only Make Believe” – Glen Campbell
  • [new] “Let’s Work Together” – Canned Heat
  • “Lola” – Kinks
  • “Look What They’ve Done To My Song Ma” – New Seekers
  • [new] “Lucretia Mac Evil” – Blood Sweat & Tears
  • “Montego Bay” – Bobby Bloom
  • [new] “No Matter What” – Badfinger
  • [new] “One Less Bell To Answer” – 5Th Dimension
  • “Our House” – Crosby Stills Nash & Young
  • “See Me Feel Me” – Who
  • [new] “Share The Land” – Guess Who
  • “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” – 100 Proof Aged In Soul
  • “Stand By Your Man” – Candi Staton
  • “Still Water” – Four Tops
  • [new] “Stoned Love” – Supremes
  • “Super Bad” – James Brown
  • “Tears Of A Clown” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  • “We’ve Only Just Begun” – Carpenters
  • [new] “Yellow River” – Christie
  • [new] “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” – Elvis Presley

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

The history section of 4xlife pretty much comes from wikipedia’s history-of-the-month pages. But by some complete coincidence this week – I remembered the UK comedy show, “The Goodies” when referring to Sadie’s lil gang of mischiefs at her kindergarten (they’ve named themselves this.) And what do you know, the show launched in the UK in November, 1970! A childhood favourite.

On the 7th Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, now the highest grossing ocean liner service in the world, made its first voyage as passengers boarded the company’s original ship, MS Song of Norway, departed from Miami at 6:00 in the evening for a seven-day round-trip tour with stops at the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. And because its 2025, here’s not a history video but a minecraft built model of the boat!

And on the 20th The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London was disrupted by women’s liberation protesters who hurled leaflets, smoke bombs and “stink bombs” on stage. Emcee Bob Hope left the stage temporarily, muttering “Who are these bastards?”, until police cleared the hall, then crowned Jennifer Hosten of Grenada as “Miss World”. The “jokes” in his emceeing and Bob’s reaction to the protest really are of a time…

What’d Sadie think?

Two weeks at the top for “I’ll Be There” by the Jackson Five before a couple for the Partridge Family with “I Think I Love You”.

Sadie was no-doubt pleased “Rubber ducky” wasn’t on the charts this week, as she had been telling me to turn it off, “it’s a kid song!” since it hit the billboard!

Loved ’em

  • “5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love)” – Presidents
  • “After Midnight” – Eric Clapton
  • “Black Magic Woman” – Santana
  • “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” – Chicago
  • “Green-Eyed Lady” – Sugarloaf
  • “Gypsy Woman” – Brian Hyland
  • “No Matter What” – Badfinger
  • “Share The Land” – Guess Who

Liked ’em

  • “Deeper And Deeper” – Freda Payne
  • “Engine Number 9” – Wilson Pickett
  • “For The Good Times” – Ray Price
  • “Heaven Help Us All” – Stevie Wonder
  • “Let’s Work Together” – Canned Heat
  • “One Less Bell To Answer” – 5Th Dimension
  • “Stoned Love” – Supremes
  • “Yellow River” – Christie
  • “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” – Elvis Presley
  • “No Matter What” – Badfinger

Leave ’em

  • “Lucretia Mac Evil” – Blood Sweat & Tears

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

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