Let’s tune into the sounds of October, 1970…
Songs of the month
- “25 Or 6 To 4” – Chicago
- “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Diana Ross
- “All Right Now” – Free
- “Band Of Gold” – Freda Payne
- “Candida” – Dawn
- [new] “Closer To Home” – Grand Funk Railroad
- “Cracklin’ Rosie” – Neil Diamond
- [new] “Cry Me A River” – Joe Cocker
- “Don’t Play That Song” – Aretha Franklin
- [new] “El Condor Pasa” – Simon & Garfunkel
- [new] “Engine #9” – Wilson Pickett
- “Express Yourself” – Charles Wright
- [new] “Express Yourself” – Charles Wright & Watts 103Rd Street Rhythm Band
- [new] “Fire And Rain” – James Taylor
- [new] “Gh Enough” – Diana Ross
- [new] “God Love And Rock And Roll” – Teagarden & Van Winkle
- “Green Eyed Lady” – Sugarloaf
- “Groovy Situation” – Gene Chandler
- “I Know I’m Losing You” – Rare Earth
- [new] “I Think I Love You” – Partridge Family
- “I Who Have Nothing” – Tom Jones
- “I’ll Be There” – Jackson Five
- “Indiana Wants Me” – R. Dean Taylor
- [new] “It Don’t Matter To Me” – Bread
- “It’s A Shame” – Spinners
- [new] “It’s Only Make Believe” – Glen Campbell
- “Joanne” – Michael Nesmith & First National Band
- “Julie Do Ya Love Me” – Bobby Sherman
- “Lola” – Kinks
- “Long Long Time” – Linda Ronstadt
- [new] “Look What They’ve Done To My Song Ma” – New Seekers
- “Lookin’ Out My Back Door / Long As I Can See The Light” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “Make It With You” – Bread
- [new] “Montego Bay” – Bobby Bloom
- “Neanderthal Man” – Hotlegs
- [new] “Our House” – Crosby Stills Nash & Young
- “Out In The Country” – Three Dog Night
- “Patches” – Clarence Carter
- “Rubber Duckie” – Ernie
- [new] “See Me Feel Me” – Who
- “Snowbird” – Anne Murray
- [new] “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” – 100 Proof Aged In Soul
- [new] “Stand By Your Man” – Candi Staton
- [new] “Still Water” – Four Tops
- [new] “Super Bad” – James Brown
- [new] “Tears Of A Clown” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- [new] “That’s Where I Went Wrong” – Poppy Family
- “War” – Edwin Starr
- [new] “We’ve Only Just Begun” – Carpenters
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On the 4th singer Janis Joplin dies of an overdose aged 27. By some, noted, coincidence Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison all also died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment but, according to Charles R. Cross, a biographer of Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, “it wasn’t until Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 that the idea of the 27 Club arrived in the popular zeitgeist.”
On the 20th the North Tower of the World Trade Center became the world’s tallest building when a piece of framework was fitted into place, bringing the tower’s height to 382 m , higher than the 380 m height of the Empire State Building. It’ll come up again in a few decades time, when the charts will sound very different…
Then on the 27th, “Jesus Christ Superstar” was first placed on sale as a two-disc record album of the studio recording of a rock opera written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, without having been performed before a live audience. Initially unable to get backing for a stage production, the composers released it as an album, the success of which led to stage productions premiering in 1971.
What’d Sadie think?
One last week at the top for”Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Diana Ross before Neil Diamond’s “Cracklin’ Rosie” gets one at number one and then its two at the top for”I’ll Be There” by the Jackson Five.
Loved ’em
- “Express Yourself” – Charles Wright & Watts 103Rd Street Rhythm Band
- “Fire And Rain” – James Taylor
- “It Don’t Matter To Me” – Bread
- “Look What They’ve Done To My Song Ma” – New Seekers
- “Our House” – Crosby Stills Nash & Young
- “Super Bad” – James Brown
- “We’ve Only Just Begun” – Carpenters
Liked ’em
- “Cry Me A River” – Joe Cocker
- “El Condor Pasa” – Simon & Garfunkel
- “I Think I Love You” – Partridge Family
- “It’s Only Make Believe” – Glen Campbell
- “Montego Bay” – Bobby Bloom
- “See Me Feel Me” – Who
- “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” – 100 Proof Aged In Soul
- “Stand By Your Man” – Candi Staton
- “Still Water” – Four Tops
- “Tears Of A Clown” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.