Top Songs Of 1970 – Part 1

Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
“Bridge over Troubled Water” is a song by the American folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in January 1970 as the second single from their fifth studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). It was composed by Paul Simon and produced by Simon & Garfunkel and Roy Halee.
The single won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Contemporary Song, and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals in the Grammy Awards of 1971, with its album also winning Album of the Year.

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(They Long to Be) Close to You – The Carpenters
“(They Long to Be) Close to You” is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In 1970, “(They Long to Be) Close to You” was released by the Carpenters on their album Close to You (1970) and became their breakthrough hit. The song stayed at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and eleven weeks in the Top 10. “(They Long to Be) Close to You” was named Billboard’s Song of the Summer for 1970.

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Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head – B. J. Thomas
“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound huskier than in the 7-inch release. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.

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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is a song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla label, a division of Motown. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and became a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes front woman Diana Ross. The song became Ross’s first solo number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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Get Ready – Rare Earth
“Get Ready” is a Motown song written by Smokey Robinson, which resulted in two hit records for the label: a U.S. No. 29 version by The Temptations in 1966, and a U.S. No. 4 version by Rare Earth in 1970.
The rock band Rare Earth regularly played “Get Ready” in concert, where it was a popular staple of their live performances, and recorded a version for their 1968 Verve release, Dreams/Answers. After signing with Motown, executive Barney Ales asked the band to re-record the song for their first release on Motown’s then-unnamed rock subsidiary, due to the audience response to the band’s cover. After recording a version which was scrapped, the band themselves set up their own recording equipment and recorded a 21 minute version, which later had audience applause dubbed in. The new recording of “Get Ready” was edited down to 2:46 for a single, which was given a Tamla Motown release in the UK, the only release by the band to appear on Motown itself, and unlike the Temptations’ version, Rare Earth’s recording was a success on the pop chart.[5] The single peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. The Rare Earth version of the song also peaked at number twenty on the R&B chart.

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Let It Be – The Beatles
“Let It Be” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 6 March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternative mix) as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney, and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The single version of the song, produced by George Martin, features a softer guitar solo and the orchestral section mixed low, compared with the album version, produced by Phil Spector, featuring a more aggressive guitar solo and the orchestral sections mixed higher.

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Band of Gold – Freda Payne
“Band of Gold” is a song written and composed by former Motown producers Holland–Dozier–Holland (under the pseudonym of Edythe Wayne) and Ron Dunbar. It was a major hit when first recorded by Freda Payne in 1970 for the Invictus label, owned by H-D-H.

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Mama Told Me (Not to Come) – Three Dog Night
This was written by Randy Newman, the nephew of Academy Award-winning composer Lionel Newman. The song is about a party that left a “bad taste” in the writer’s mouth. The drug scene was fairly new to American middle-class youth at that time.
This song has the distinction of being the very first #1 hit on the American Top 40 syndicated radio program.

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American Woman – The Guess Who
“American Woman” is a song by Canadian rock band the Guess Who, released January 1970, from the album of the same name. It was later released in March 1970 as a single backed with “No Sugar Tonight”, and it reached number one for three weeks commencing May 9 on both the United States’ Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM magazine singles chart. Billboard magazine placed the single at number three on the Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970 list, and it was listed as number five for 1970 on the RPM Year-End Chart.
Produced by Jack Richardson, the single was recorded on August 13, 1969, at RCA’s Mid-America Recording Center in Chicago.

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