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Get Together-The Youngbloods--1969-#5

M&L--Chester Powers

this was the best Hair song that didn't belong to hair


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Ain't No Mountain High Enough-Diana Ross-1970-#1

M&L--Nicholas Ashfold and Valerie Simpson

Diana Ross,who had just gone solo,was credited with discovering the Jacksons,an attempt by the label to boost the chances for both acts.it must have worked,because after one disappointment -" Reach Out and Touch,which later became her signature song,reach only number 20-she took Ain't No Mountain High Enough all the way.


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Green-eyed Lady--Sugarloaf-1970-#3

M&L--Jerry Corbetta,J.C.phillips and David Riordan


Make It With You--Bread-1970-#1

M&L--David Gates

Bread was formed when Oklahoman David Gates ,seeing the Hollwood success of his old Tulsa crony Leon Russell,went west and wound up producing Pleasure Faire,a group of studio player.He soon joined the group,and the name was changed.


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Your Song-Elton John-1970-#8

M&L---Elton John and Bernie Taupin

The wave of new singer-writers was led by Elton John with Your Song,his first American top 40 single.


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Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)- Melanie -1970-#6

M&L--Melanie Safka

Melanie was a former drama student whose " Look What They've Done to My Song Ma",was a French hit for her and an American hit for the Seekers.Her husband-manager was able to get her onto the bill at Woodstock,where she performed through a rainstorm,inspiring " Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).


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I Think I Love You--The Partridge Family-1970-#1

M&L--Tony Romeo


O-o-h Child-The Stairsteps-1970-#8

M&L--Stan Vincent

The Strairsteps were the Burke Brothers of Chicagowho people thought would be the next Jackson 5 but they were unable to follow up.


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Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)-Edison Lighthouse-1970-#5

M&L--Tony Macaulay and Barry mason

This group was made up of Tony Burrows and a unheard-of group Greenwich Hammer


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Gypsy Woman-Brian Hyland-1970-#3

M&L---Curtis Mayfield

With this song Brian Hyland returned to the charts with his remake of this Curtis Mayfield song. Del Shannon produced this one.


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Hey There Lonely Girl--Eddie Holman-1970-#2

M&L---Leon Carr,Earl Shuman

Among interpreters of soul material, journeyman Eddie Holman got back on the charts with his reworking of a 1963 Ruby and the Romantics hit,Hey There Lonely Girl.


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Rainy Night in Georgia-Brock Benton-1970-#4

M&L---Tony Joe White

This was the first showing for Benton in six years


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In The Summertime--Mungo Jerry-1970-#3

M&L--Ray Dorset

Mungo Jerry was a British skiffle band know as the Good Earth until a couple weeks before the release of In the Summertime.That single kicked of a brief skiffle craze in England,but America would have no more of it.


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Share the Land--The Guess Who--1970-#10

M&L---Burton Cummings



Candida--Dawn---1970-#3

M&L---Tony Wine and Irwin Levine

Dawn was an accident.Tony Orlando,an early-60s semister,was working behind a desk at April-Blackwood when he was approached by his old friend Hank Medress,once of the Tokens.Medress had a demo of Candida with two Motown backup singers(Joyce Vincent and Telma Hopkins)and a lead voice he didn't like;Bell Records had already told him they would release it as a single if a better frontman could be found.Orlando,who had done plenty of demos in his days,agreed to add his voice if he remained anonymous.When the tune went to No.3,he over-dubbed his voice on a follow-up Knock Three Times,and that went to No.1.Only then did Orlando actually meet the two California women who made up Dawn(the name was taken from the daughter of one of the Tokens)


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Ma Belle Amie--The Tee Set--1970--#5

M&L---Hans van Eijck and Peter Tetteroo



One Less Bell to Answer-The 5th Deimension-1970-#2

M&L--Burt Bacharach and Hal David


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Everything Is Beautiful--Ray Stevens-1970-@1

M&L--Ray Stevens



Snowbird--Anne Murray--1970#8

M&L----Gene Maclellan

Anne Murray was a former physical education teacher with her own TV series north of the border,became an American country-pop star with Snowbird


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Patches-Clarence Carter-1970-#4

M&L--General Johnson and Ronald Dunbar

Clarence Carter,a blind Alabama singer and guitarist,made his final visit to the top 10 with Patches,a Southern throwback co-written by General Johnson,who had once been lead singer of the New Orleans vocal group the Showmen.


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I'll never Fall In Love Again-Dionne Warwick-1970-#6

M&L--Burt Bacharach and Hal David

This song was from the Broadway musical" Promises,Promises


I'll Be There-The Jackson 5--1970-#1

M&L--Bob West,Hal Davis,Willie Hutch and Berry Gardy

This was the Jacksons 4th straight No.1 hit of the year


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She's A Lady-Tom Jones-1971-#2

M&L--Paul Anka

Welshman Tom Jones sold a grittier.more overly sexual brand of love song to roughly the same audience.Though he had just lost his network TV show when he cut "She's A Lady" his career was still peaking,and the Paul Anka song gave him his best-selling hit yet.


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Knock Three Times--Dawn-1971-#1

M&L--Irwin Levine and L.Russell Brown

An East coast studio was the birth place of Dawn.
Dawn and Tony Orlando at first put out records where they weren't in the studio together.Dawn would put their music on a demo then it was sent to Orlando and he dub his in.


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Draggin'The Line--Tommy James-1971-#4

M&L--Robert L. King and Tommy James


Sunshine--Jonathan Edwards--1971-#4

M&L--Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards who hailed from Minnesota,was a disillusioned verteran of various folk and bluegrass groups when he went solo and came up with Sunshine.


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That's The Way I've Always Heared It Should Be--Carly Simon
1971-#10

M&L--Carly Simon and Jacob Brackman


Sweet City Woman-Stampeders-1971-#8

M&L--Richard Dodson


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