1970 Top Ten Music Charts

1970’s Biggest Artists and Songs

Crosby, Stills and Nash (1969 Best New Artist Grammy Winner, awarded in 1970)
Their first gig was on Aug. 17, 1969, at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, and their second gig was at Woodstock.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears (1969 Grammy for Album of the Year)
Aquarius – The Fifth Dimension (Grammy for 1969 Record of the Year for Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In)
New Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, James Taylor, The Jackson 5, Anne Murray, Jimmy Cliff, Black Sabbath, Joni Mitchell and Quincy Jones.

1970’s Retro Top 10 Hits

1. Ma Belle Amie – The Tee Set
2. 25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
3. O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
4. Big Yellow Taxi – The Neighborhood
5. El Condor Pasa – Simon and Garfunkle
6. What Is Truth – Johnny Cash
7. Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum
8. The Wonder of You – Elvis Presley
9. Spill the Wine – Eric Burdon and War
10. Candida – Dawn

1970’s ‘One Hit Wonders’

1. O-o-h Child – The Five Stairsteps
2. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse
3. Hey There Lonely Girl – Eddie Holman
4. Rubber Ducky – Ernie (Jim Henson)
5. Ride Captain Ride – Blues Image
6. House of the Rising Sun – Frigid Pink
7. United We Stand – Brotherhood of Man
8. Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson
9. Vehicle – Ides of March
10. Yellow River – Christie

1970’s R&B/Soul Top 10 Hit List

1. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine) – James Brown
2. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly and the Family Stone
3. Get Ready – Rare Earth
4. I Want You Back – Jackson Five
5. I Want To Take You Higher – Sly and the Family Stone
6. Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
7. Do The Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas
8. Love On A Two Way Street – The Moments
9. Stoned Love – The Supremes
10. Still Water (Love) – The Four Tops

1970’s Pop Dance Top 10 Hit List

1. ABC – Jackson Five
2. Venus – Shocking Blue
3. Band of Gold – Freda Payne
4. Give Me Just A Little More Time – Chairmen of the Board
5. In The Summertime – Mungo Jerry
6. Montego Bay – Bobby Bloom
7. Tighter, Tighter – Alive & Kicking
8. Groove Me – Floyd King
9. Hitchin A Ride – Vanity Fare
10. War – Edwin Starr

The Pop Psychedelic Dance Song Hit:

Psychedelic Shack – The Temptations

1970’s Rock n Roll Top 10 Hit List

1. Let It Be – The Beatles
2. Summertime Blues – The Who
3. American Woman – Guess Who
4. Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
5. Lola – The Kinks
6. After Midnight – Eric Clapton
7. Mississippi Queen – Mountain
8. All Right Now – Free
9. Ride Captain Ride – Blues Image
10. Roadhouse Blues – The Doors

More Rock Music Hits:

Funk # 49 – James Gang
Uncle John’s Band – Grateful Dead
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Come and Get It – Badfinger
Green-Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf
Vehicle – The Ides of March
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window – Joe Cocker
Question – Moody Blues
Fresh Air – Quicksilver Messenger Service

1970’s Bubblegum Top 10 Hit List

1. Rubber Ducky – Ernie
2. ABC – Jackson Five
3. I Think I Love You – The Partridge Family
4. Julie, Do Ya Love Me – Bobby Sherman
5. Jingle Jangle – The Archies
6. Easy Come, Easy Go – Bobby Sherman
7. Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head – B.J. Thomas
8. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse
9. Hey There Lonely Girl – Eddie Holman
10. Yellow River – Christie

PCM’s 1970 Top 10 Hit List

1. I’ll Be There – Jackson Five
2. (They Long To Be) Close To You – Carpenters
3. ABC – Jackson Five
4. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
5. The Wonder Of You – Elvis Presley
6. Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
7. I Want You Back – Jackson 5
8. Evil Ways – Santana
9. 25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
10. Give Me Just a Little More Time – Chairmen of the Board