RA Retro Tracks Rewind Charts 1970 - 1979

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31/10/1970

01 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (5wks 38-18-8-5-1)

02 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (5wks 33-16-10-6-2)
03 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (5wks 23-9-6-4-3)
04 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (5wks 40-21-12-8-4)
05 Jackson Five - I'll Be There (6wks 29-14-7-2-2-5)
06 Black Sabbath - Paranoid (7wks 36-21-12-6-4-3-6)
07 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (8wks 31-19-9-6-4-1-1-7)
08 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (4wks 25-16-10-8)
09 Tremeloes - Me & My Life (6wks 30-22-15-11-9-9)
10 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (5wks 35-26-19-12-10)

11 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (3wks 27-16-11)
12 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (3wks 26-18-12)
13 Hollies - Gasoline Alley Bred (5wks 34-28-21-15-13)
14 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (2wks 30-14)
15 Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady (4wks 35-20-14-15)
16 Four Tops - Still Water (Love) (5wks 30-22-18-17-16)
17 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (2wks 32-17)
18 Matt Monro - We're Gonna Change The World (8wks 26-12-6-2-1-3-7-18)
19 Traffic - Freedom Rider (3wks 34-22-19)
20 Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Our House (5wks 37-29-22-20-20)

21 Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (5wks 32-26-20-19-21)
22 Rattles - The Witch (3wks 28-23-22)
23 James Brown - Super Bad (2wks 31-23)
24 Band - Stage Fright (7wks 38-19-11-8-7-13-24)
25 Deep Purple - Black Night (9wks 30-22-17-12-8-5-5-11-25)
26 Pink Floyd - If (2wks 29-26)
27 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Christie - San Bernadino (1wk 28 NEW)
29 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Blue Mink - Our World (4wks 37-30-25-30)

31 100 Proof Aged In Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping (2wks 39-31)
32 Slickers - Johnny Too Bad (6wks 40-31-27-23-24-32)
33 Freda Payne - Deeper And Deeper (2wks 40-33)
34 Bread - It Don't Matter to Me (3wks 39-35-34)
35 Fleetwood Mac - Jewel Eyed Judy (2wks 36-35)
36 Julie Felix - Heaven Is Here (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Temptations - Ungena Za Ulimengu (Unite The World) (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Spinners - It's A Shame (8wks 36-22-14-13-13-19-27-38)
39 Deep Purple - Child In Time (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie (9wks 24-12-6-4-3-3-9-21-40)

The self penned folk rock ballad by the 5 times Grammy Winner who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1970 tops my Retro Rewind Chart. Otherwise, six new entries from:

• The musical offshoot of the American musical television sitcom series starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy loosely based on the Cowsills reached #1 in the USA, Canada, & Australia with their debut release penned by Tony Romeo which only made UK #18.
• The Leeds based pop rock group's UK #8, Germany #1 & USA #100 pop rock hit penned by the singer Jeff Christie.
• The country ballad written by Jerry Chestnut for the American country singer describing the thoughts of a man as his wife is preparing to leave him. It peaked at USA #112 (CW #2), but became a standard which is most known in the UK for Elvis Costello's 1981 cover version.
  
• The California born UK based folk singer's UK #22 hit on RAK records was written by two members of Hot Chocolate (including Errol Brown who provided backing vocals) and produced by Mickie Most.
• The uptempo psychedelic soul USA #33 (R&B #8) hit by the Motown group featured Dennis Edwards on lead vocals.
  
• The epic 10 minute long protest song against the Vietnam War which was a fusion of heavy rock and hard rock taken from the album Deep Purple in Rock.

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07/11/1970

01 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (6wks 38-18-8-5-1-1)
02 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (6wks 33-16-10-6-2-2)
03 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (6wks 40-21-12-8-4-3)
04 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (6wks 23-9-6-4-3-4)
05 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (4wks 27-16-11-5)
06 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (3wks 30-14-6)
07 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (6wks 35-26-19-12-10-7)
08 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (5wks 25-16-10-8-8)
09 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (4wks 26-18-12-9)
10 Jackson Five - I'll Be There (7wks 29-14-7-2-2-5-10)

11 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (3wks 32-17-11)
12 Tremeloes - Me & My Life (7wks 30-22-15-11-9-9-12)
13 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (2wks 27-13)
14 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (1wk 14 NEW)
15 Black Sabbath - Paranoid (8wks 36-21-12-6-4-3-6-15)
16 Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady (5wks 35-20-14-15-16)
17 Hollies - Gasoline Alley Bred (6wks 34-28-21-15-13-17)
18 Four Tops - Still Water (Love) (6wks 30-22-18-17-16-18)
19 Christie - San Bernadino (2wks 28-19)
20 Traffic - Freedom Rider (4wks 34-22-19-20)

21 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (9wks 31-19-9-6-4-1-1-7-21)
22 James Brown - Super Bad (3wks 31-23-22)
23 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (2wks 29-23)
24 Pink Floyd - If (3wks 29-26-24)
25 Rattles - The Witch (4wks 28-23-22-25)
26 Deep Purple - Child In Time (2wks 39-26)
27 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (1wk 27 NEW)
28 100 Proof Aged In Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping (3wks 39-31-28)
29 Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Our House (6wks 37-29-22-20-20-29)
30 Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (6wks 32-26-20-19-21-30)

31 Mary Hopkin - Think About Your Children (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Julie Felix - Heaven Is Here (2wks 36-32)
33 Matt Monro - We're Gonna Change The World (9wks 26-12-6-2-1-3-7-18-33)
34 Freda Payne - Deeper And Deeper (3wks 40-33-34)
35 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Blue Mink - Our World (5wks 37-30-25-30-36)
37 Hollies - Too Young To Be Married (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Jimmy Ruffin - It's Wonderful (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Band - Stage Fright (8wks 38-19-11-8-7-13-24-39)
40 Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness (1wk 40 NEW)

Seven new entries this week come from:

• The posthumous psychedelic rock UK #1 hit by the American guitarist/singer who died on September 18, 1970 aged 27, which first appeared on the 1968 Electric Ladyland album.
  
• The hard funk rock track written by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones & Robert Plant which was taken from the group's third album III. The band's last concert film and album, released on 19 November 2012, took their name from this song.
  
• This UK #19 & USA #87 Tony Visconti produced track was written by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate for the Welsh warbler.
  
• This boogie rock cover of the 1966 JJ Cale composition taken from the former Yardbirds, Cream & Blind Faith guitarist's first solo album "Eric Clapton". The performers on this version were Clapton on vocals and guitar, Bobby Whitlock on organ and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Delaney Bramlett on rhythm guitar, Carl Radle on bass, Leon Russell on piano, Jim Price on trumpet, and Bobby Keys on saxophone. It reached USA #18 and went top ten in Canada.
  
• The Manchester group's Tony Hicks' composition was never released as a single in UK, USA or Europe. Yet this tale of a shot gun wedding topped the charts in both Australia & New Zealand.
  
• The American soul singer reached UK #6 with this Motown release which failed to chart in his native country.
  
• The Dutch rock band's brooding slightly country psychedelic rocker was a sizeable hit in Europe.
  

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14/11/1970

01 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (7wks 38-18-8-5-1-1-1)
02 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (7wks 40-21-12-8-4-3-2)
03 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (5wks 27-16-11-5-3)
04 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (4wks 30-14-6-4)
05 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (2wks 14-5)
06 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (7wks 33-16-10-6-2-2-6)
07 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (4wks 32-17-11-7)
08 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (7wks 35-26-19-12-10-7-8)
09 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (5wks 26-18-12-9-9)
10 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (3wks 27-13-10)

11 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (7wks 23-9-6-4-3-4-11)
12 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (6wks 25-16-10-8-8-12)
13 Christie - San Bernadino (3wks 28-19-13)
14 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (2wks 27-14)
15 Jackson Five - I'll Be There (8wks 29-14-7-2-2-5-10-15)
16 Deep Purple - Child In Time (3wks 39-26-16)
17 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (3wks 29-23-17)
18 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (2wks 35-18)
19 Tremeloes - Me & My Life (8wks 30-22-15-11-9-9-12-19)
20 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (1wk 21 NEW)
22 Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady (6wks 35-20-14-15-16-22)
23 James Brown - Super Bad (4wks 31-23-22-23)
24 Traffic - Freedom Rider (5wks 34-22-19-20-24)
25 Mary Hopkin - Think About Your Children (2wks 31-25)
26 Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness (2wks 40-26)
27 Four Tops - Still Water (Love) (7wks 30-22-18-17-16-18-27)
28 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (1wk 28 NEW)
29 Hollies - Gasoline Alley Bred (7wks 34-28-21-15-13-17-29)
30 Pink Floyd - If (4wks 29-26-24-30)

31 Black Sabbath - Paranoid (9wks 36-21-12-6-4-3-6-15-31)
32 Rattles - The Witch (5wks 28-23-22-25-32)
33 Hollies - Too Young To Be Married (2wks 37-33)
34 100 Proof Aged In Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping (4wks 39-31-28-34)
35 Jimmy Ruffin - It's Wonderful (2wks 38-35)
36 Status Quo - In My Chair (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Joe Cocker - Cry Me A River (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (10wks 31-19-9-6-4-1-1-7-21-39)
40 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (1wk 40 NEW)

Seven more Retro Rewind new entries from:

• Collective Consciousness Society were a jazz blues rock group led by blues guitarist Alexis Korner with musical director John Cameron and record producer Mickie Most, CCS consisted largely of session musicians, and was created primarily as a recording outfit. The personnel also included Peter Thorup, vocals; Alan Parker, guitar; Harold McNair, flute; Herbie Flowers, bass; Roger Coulam, keyboards; Barry Morgan, drums; plus Don Lusher and Bill Geldard, trombone. This UK #13 instrumental cover of the seminal Led Zeppelin II album cut was the theme music for the BBC pop programme Top of the Pops for most of the 1970s.
• The folk rock eighth track from the American pop duo's fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was written by Paul Simon as a thinly failed attack on Art Garfunkel for his lack of commitment to the duo where Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22 so delaying the recording of this album.
• The gospel soul single composed by Ron Miller and first performed by the Motown singer reached USA #9 (R&B #2) & UK #29.
• The UK #21 boogie rock song was written in an afternoon by Francis Rossi and Bob Young in Rossi's kitchen. Get well soon Rick Parfitt.
• This UK #32 debut solo record by the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, featured the slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance, in which Jagger played the leading role of Turner, a reclusive rock star. This Jack Nitzsche production also featured Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass) and Gene Parsons (drums).
• This gospel rock Mad Dogs & Englishmen album cut cover of the popular American torch song made famous by Julie London reached USA #11 and was a sizeable hit in Europe.
  
• Taken from the Florida based Southern rock band's second studio album, Idlewild South, this Gregg Allman & Robert Kim Payne composition failed to chart. Unlike cover versions by Joe Cocker (1972), Gregg Allman solo version (1974), Paul Davidson (1976), and Willie Nelson (1980).
  
  

[vastar iner]

For those wanting a bit more of killing John Barleycorn, The Wicker Man is just starting on ITV4 now.

It's really odd that "Whole Lotta Love" wasn't a bigger hit. To be fair at least most of the records above it in the national chart are at least memorable. But to me one of those - "Woodstock" - was probably the worst number 1 for over a decade, barring "Something Stupid"...

[raliverpool]

Jun 17, 2016 23:32:40 GMT 1 vastar iner said:

For those wanting a bit more of killing John Barleycorn, The Wicker Man is just starting on ITV4 now.

It's really odd that "Whole Lotta Love" wasn't a bigger hit. To be fair at least most of the records above it in the national chart are at least memorable. But to me one of those - "Woodstock" - was probably the worst number 1 for over a decade, barring "Something Stupid"...

Interesting three points you make. I certainly concur on the first two .... but why don't you like "Woodstock" is it because of that particular mellow English folk rock muso version compared to the CSNY cover or Joni Mitchell's original version, or does the song annoy you because it was written by the Taylor Swift of that era about being at said festival when the Canadian female songwriter in question was not actually there in person?

[vastar iner]

"Woodstock" might partly be about the timing, it seems to celebrate a future that has already passed, and which people can't be bothered to do anything about; anaemic and platitudinous. The real vibe that should have come from Woodstock was this one...

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21/11/1970

01 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (6wks 27-16-11-5-3-1)

02 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (3wks 14-5-2)
03 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (5wks 30-14-6-4-3)
04 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (8wks 38-18-8-5-1-1-1-4)
05 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (8wks 40-21-12-8-4-3-2-5)
06 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (5wks 32-17-11-7-6)
07 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (4wks 27-13-10-7)
08 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (2wks 21-8)
09 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (3wks 35-18-9)
10 Deep Purple - Child In Time (4wks 39-26-16-10)

11 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (3wks 27-14-11)
12 Christie - San Bernadino (4wks 28-19-13-12)
13 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (6wks 26-18-12-9-9-13)
14 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (4wks 29-23-17-14)
15 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (2wks 20-15)
16 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (8wks 35-26-19-12-10-7-8-16)
17 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (8wks 33-16-10-6-2-2-6-17)
18 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (1wk 18 NEW)
19 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (1wk 19 NEW)
20 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (2wks 28-20)

21 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (7wks 25-16-10-8-8-12-21)
22 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (8wks 23-9-6-4-3-4-11-22)
23 Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness (3wks 40-26-23)
24 Supremes - Stoned Love (1wk 24 NEW)
25 Status Quo - In My Chair (2wks 36-25)
26 Mary Hopkin - Think About Your Children (3wks 31-25-26)
27 Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner (2wks 37-27)
28 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (2wks 40-28)
29 Jackson Five - I'll Be There (9wks 29-14-7-2-2-5-10-15-29)
30 James Brown - Super Bad (5wks 31-23-22-23-30)

31 Guess Who - Share The Land (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady (7wks 35-20-14-15-16-22-33)
34 Traffic - Freedom Rider (6wks 34-22-19-20-24-34)
35 Tremeloes - Me & My Life (9wks 30-22-15-11-9-9-12-19-35)
36 Jimmy Ruffin - It's Wonderful (3wks 38-35-36)
37 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Joe Cocker - Cry Me A River (2wks 38-38)
39 Wilson Pickett - Engine Number 9 (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Stooges - TV Eye (1wk 40 NEW)

Van The Man's elegiac folk rock number gives the Belfast born singer his second Retro Rewind chart topper after 1965 Them - Gloria.

Eight new entries from:

• The Cardiff born singer, guitarist & producer blues rock cover of the Smiley Lewis standard was a global top ten hit including UK #1 & USA #4.
  
• The former London born hippie Marc Bolan's beguiling composition was produced by Tony Visconti. This UK #2 & USA #76 track is regarded as being hugely influential in heralding in the Glam Rock movement.
  
• The post-Ross Supremes' biggest hit was a psychedelic soul peace anthem written by Kenny Thomas & producer Frank Wilson which peaked at USA #7 (R&B #1) & UK #3.
• Written by the Canadian rock group's singer Burton Cummings, this communalist anthem made USA #10 & Canada #2, but failed to chart in the UK.
• The much covered USA #33 third track on the Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist album After the Gold Rush was a lament in sympathy to fellow CSN&Y bandmate, the Manchester born Graham Nash after he had found out his amicable split from Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell was due to her seeing fellow singer/songwriter James Taylor behind his back! (All very "Deja Vu" to the Calvin Harris/Taylor Swift/Tom Hiddleston love triangle).
  
• This Australian group's recording dates back from a April 1969 session with the former Jeff Beck Group's singer being paid a set of seat covers for his car for doing the session. This opportunistic single release failed to chart despite the rising profile of the Faces lead singer who had released two studio albums in the intervening period. Come August 1972 and the 2016 Knighted London born singer had a much higher profile, hence a reissue of the single peaked at UK #3 & USA #56.
  
• The Atlantic artist Alabama born R&B soul singer's Philadelphia Gamble & Huff funk production made USA #14 (R&B #3).
  
• The proto-punk band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, seminal second album Fun House album cut written by the group's Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, and Iggy Pop.

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28/11/1970

01 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (7wks 27-16-11-5-3-1-1)
02 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (3wks 21-8-2)
03 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (4wks 14-5-2-3)
04 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (6wks 32-17-11-7-6-4)
05 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (4wks 35-18-9-5)
06 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (6wks 30-14-6-4-3-6)
07 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (5wks 27-13-10-7-7)
08 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (2wks 18-8)
09 Deep Purple - Child In Time (5wks 39-26-16-10-9)
10 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (4wks 27-14-11-10)

11 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (2wks 19-11)
12 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (5wks 29-23-17-14-12)
13 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (3wks 20-15-13)
14 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (9wks 38-18-8-5-1-1-1-4-14)
15 Christie - San Bernadino (5wks 28-19-13-12-15)
16 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (3wks 28-20-16)
17 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (9wks 40-21-12-8-4-3-2-5-17)
18 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (2wks 32-18)
19 Supremes - Stoned Love (2wks 24-19)
20 Bob Dylan - If Not For You (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Status Quo - In My Chair (3wks 36-25-21)
22 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (3wks 40-28-22)
23 Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner (3wks 37-27-23)
24 Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness (4wks 40-26-23-24)
25 Guess Who - Share The Land (2wks 31-24)
26 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (2wks 37-26)
27 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (7wks 26-18-12-9-9-13-27)
28 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (9wks 35-26-19-12-10-7-8-16-28)
29 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (1wk 29 NEW)
30 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Andy Williams - Home Lovin' Man (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Herman's Hermits - Lady Barbara (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Wilson Pickett - Engine Number 9 (2wks 39-33)
34 Mary Hopkin - Think About Your Children (4wks 31-25-26-34)
35 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (9wks 33-16-10-6-2-2-6-17-35)
36 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Brian Hyland - Gypsy Woman (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Elvis Presley - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (8wks 25-16-10-8-8-12-21-40)

Nine new entries this week from:

• The New Morning album country rock cut taken from the UK #1 & USA #7 album which was soon to be recorded by George Harrison & Olivia Newton-John.
  
• The much played Lou Reed rock composition taken from their 1970 & 4th studio album Loaded with Doug Yule (the replacement for multi-instrumentalist John Cale) given the band a far more commercial sound compared to previous albums.
  
• The English rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle reached UK #2 & USA #47 which their debut folk rock single written by Bernard Gallagher & Graham Lyle about the life of blues musician Robert Johnson.
• This dramatic easy listening pop song written by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, and Tony Macaulay reached UK #7 after falling to make the Billboard singles chart for the American crooner.
• The 1970 Italian hit of the same name was reworked with English lyrics by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate. This near acoustic and string-laden Mickie Most production was the final hit for the Manchester group before their lead singer went solo, and reached UK #13.
  
• Originally written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Keely Smith, this Sunshine pop cover version featuring Marilyn McCoo on lead vocals reached USA #2 (R&B #4 & AC #1) on the group's 1970 debut album for Bell Records, Portrait.
• This country pop cover of the soulful 1961 The Impressions hit, gave the early 1960s teen idol a USA #3 hit produced by Del Shannon.
  
• The folk-rock musician self penned opening track from his seminal 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman reflects awareness of the turmoil of the late 1960s and the issues involved: war, urban sprawl, poverty, ecological disaster, and the future of humankind.
• The King of Rock & Roll's cover of the 1965 Italian song made most famous by Dusty Springfield reached USA #11 & UK #9.
  

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05/12/1970

01 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (4wks 21-8-2-1)

02 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (8wks 27-16-11-5-3-1-1-2)
03 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (3wks 18-8-3)
04 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (7wks 32-17-11-7-6-4-4)
05 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (5wks 35-18-9-5-5)
06 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (3wks 19-11-6)
07 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (5wks 14-5-2-3-7)
08 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (6wks 27-13-10-7-7-8)
09 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (3wks 32-18-9)
10 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (2wks 30-10)

11 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (5wks 27-14-11-10-11)
12 Deep Purple - Child In Time (6wks 39-26-16-10-9-12)
13 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (7wks 30-14-6-4-3-6-13)
14 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (4wks 20-15-13-14)
15 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (6wks 29-23-17-14-12-15)
16 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (2wks 29-16)
17 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (4wks 28-20-16-17)
18 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (3wks 37-26-18)
19 Supremes - Stoned Love (3wks 24-19-19)
20 Bob Dylan - If Not For You (2wks 20-20)

21 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (2wks 36-21)
22 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (4wks 40-28-22-22)
23 Guess Who - Share The Land (3wks 31-24-23)
24 Badfinger - No Matter What (1wk 24 NEW)
25 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Status Quo - In My Chair (4wks 36-25-21-26)
27 Christie - San Bernadino (6wks 28-19-13-12-15-27)
28 Andy Williams - Home Lovin' Man (2wks 31-28)
29 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (2wks 38-29)
30 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (10wks 38-18-8-5-1-1-1-4-14-30)

31 Herman's Hermits - Lady Barbara (2wks 32-31)
32 Brian Hyland - Gypsy Woman (2wks 37-32)
33 Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner (4wks 37-27-23-33)
34 Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness (5wks 40-26-23-24-34)
35 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock (10wks 40-21-12-8-4-3-2-5-17-37)
38 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Neil Diamond - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Santana - Black Magic Woman (1wk 40 NEW)

The New York folk rock duo's third Retro Rewind number one despite never being released as a single received significant airplay, not least after a November 1970 announcement that the duo were going on a two year sabbatical.... amid industry rumours this separation was going to be permanent.

Seven new entries come from:

• Apple record label's half Swansea & half Liverpool power pop quartet reached UK #5 & USA #8 hit from their album No Dice, written by the late great Peter Ham.
  
• The first release from the forthcoming debut solo triple LP by the former Beatle, produced by Phil Spector was this folk rock gospel global number one hit virtually everywhere including the UK, USA, Germany, Australia, Canada, etc.
  
• The American vocal soul group now based in the UK, reached UK #7 with this Bell records release written by songwriters Tony Macaulay, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway.
  
• This gospel soul cover of a flop April 1970 release by Elton John, saw the Queen Of Soul reach USA #37.
  
• Born Raymond O'Sullivan in Ireland, the Swindon, Wiltshire singer/songwriter scored his chart breakthrough with his fourth single. This MAM orchestral soft rock release peaked at UK #8 & USA #30, and reached Ireland #2 & #1 in the Netherlands.
• The New York born singer/songwriter's cover of the 1969 Hollies hit recorded for his Tap Root Manuscript album, made USA #20 (AC #4).
  
• The Californian Latin Rock's take on the Peter Green Fleetwood Mac song reached USA #4 and helped to prpel its corresponding album Abraxas to the top of the USA album charts.
  

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12/12/1970

01 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (5wks 21-8-2-1-1)
02 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (4wks 18-8-3-2)
03 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (2wks 25-3)
04 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (4wks 32-18-9-4)
05 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (3wks 30-10-5)
06 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (4wks 19-11-6-6)
07 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (3wks 29-16-7)
08 Badfinger - No Matter What (2wks 24-8)
09 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (3wks 36-21-9)
10 Supremes - Stoned Love (4wks 24-19-19-10)

11 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (6wks 35-18-9-5-5-11)
12 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (9wks 27-16-11-5-3-1-1-2-12)
13 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (4wks 37-26-18-13)
14 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (7wks 27-13-10-7-7-8-14)
15 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (6wks 14-5-2-3-7-15)
16 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (8wks 32-17-11-7-6-4-4-16)
17 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (2wks 38-17)
18 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (5wks 20-15-13-14-18)
19 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (6wks 27-14-11-10-11-19)
20 David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Deep Purple - Child In Time (7wks 39-26-16-10-9-12-21)
22 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (5wks 28-20-16-17-23)
24 Guess Who - Share The Land (4wks 31-24-23-24)
25 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (3wks 38-29-25)
26 George Jones - A Good Year for the Roses (7wks 29-23-17-14-12-15-26)
27 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (5wks 40-28-22-22-27)
28 Bob Dylan - If Not For You (3wks 20-20-28)
29 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (2wks 36-29)
30 Santana - Black Magic Woman (2wks 40-30)

31 Van Morrison - Domino (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (8wks 30-14-6-4-3-6-13-32)
33 Brian Hyland - Gypsy Woman (3wks 37-32-33)
34 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (2wks 35-34)
35 Andy Williams - Home Lovin' Man (3wks 31-28-35)
36 Herman's Hermits - Lady Barbara (3wks 32-31-36)
37 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (1wk 38 NEW)
39 James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (1wk 40 NEW)

Seven new entries in this week from:

• The epic eight minute long hard rocker produced by Tony Visconti which was the opening track on his The Man Who Sold The World album. It featured Mick Ronson's lead guitar work, alongside producer Tony Visconti on bass guitar, and Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey on drums.
  
• The epic eight minute long heavy metal track produced by Rodger Bain is an ugly progressive rock antiwar classic which was the opening track on the Birmingham band's Paranoid album.
• The opening track of Northern Irish singer's fourth studio album, His Band and the Street Choir was an appropriate tribute to R&B legend Fats Domino peaking at USA #9.
• Built on a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology, with singer Robert Plant's howling vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla, this punchy sub 150 seconds hard rock track culled from their III album, was released as a single in many countries, peaking at USA #16, Canada #4, Australia #16, and went top ten in Germany, South Africa, New Zealand, The Netherlands, & Switzerland.
• Written and sung by Robert Lamm, this jazz fusion number peaked at USA #7 & Canada #2.
• What is now the unofficial state anthem for North Carolina, the singer/songwriter's home state ... this was his debut single release early in 1969 on Apple records featuring a pseudonym Paul McCartney on bass guitar but failed to chart at the time. With the success of his move to Warner Bros records and success of his Sweet Baby James album and Fire & Rain single, this was reissued becoming a belated USA #67 hit. But is now a staple of his live music sets.
• The opening cut from the San Franscisco rock group's most well known album American Beauty. This country rock track was composed by bassist Phil Lesh and lyricist Robert Hunter, and sung by Lesh about his father dying of terminal cancer.
  

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19/12/1970

01 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (3wks 25-3-1)

02 Badfinger - No Matter What (3wks 24-8-2)
03 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (5wks 18-8-3-2-3)
04 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (6wks 21-8-2-1-1-4)
05 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (4wks 29-16-7-5)
06 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (5wks 19-11-6-6-6)
07 Supremes - Stoned Love (5wks 24-19-19-10-7)
08 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (4wks 30-10-5-8)
09 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (5wks 32-18-9-4-9)
10 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (3wks 38-17-10)

11 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (4wks 36-21-9-11)
12 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (5wks 37-26-18-13-12)
13 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (2wks 22-13)
14 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (2wks 37-14)
15 Van Morrison - Domino (2wks 31-15)
16 David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle (2wks 20-16)
17 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (7wks 35-18-9-5-5-11-17)
18 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (8wks 27-13-10-7-7-8-14-18)
19 Santana - Black Magic Woman (3wks 40-30-19)
20 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (4wks 38-29-25-20)

21 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (3wks 36-29-21)
22 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (6wks 20-15-13-14-18-22)
23 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (10wks 27-16-11-5-3-1-1-2-12-24)
25 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (2wks 40-25)
26 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (7wks 14-5-2-3-7-15-26)
27 Guess Who - Share The Land (5wks 31-24-23-24-27)
28 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (3wks 35-34-28)
29 Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All (6wks 28-20-16-17-23-29)
30 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (1wk 30 NEW)

31 James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (2wks 39-31)
32 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (2wks 38-32)
33 Deep Purple - Child In Time (8wks 39-26-16-10-9-12-21-33)
34 Who - See Me Feel Me (We're Not Gonna Take It) (9wks 32-17-11-7-6-4-4-16-34)
35 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Tom Jones - Can't Stop Loving You (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (7wks 27-14-11-10-11-19-37)
38 Bob Dylan - If Not For You (4wks 20-20-28-38)
39 Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (6wks 40-28-22-22-27-39)
40 Supremes & Four Tops - River Deep Mountain High (1wk 40 NEW)

The Quiet Beatle becomes the second of the Fab Four to claim a solo Retro Rewind Chart topper.... Five new entries this week from:

• First written in 1966, this track was rejected for Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions (and then with The Beatles split imminent George nixed it being used for what became the Let It Be album). In many countries around the world, this 7 minutes plus anthemic ballad was also issued on a double A-side single with "My Sweet Lord". This "All Things Must Pass album cut was co-produced by Phil Spector and is notable for its lengthy fadeout.
  
• This haunting folk song was written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was first released on Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor, but had first been heard on a March 28, 1968 transmission of the final episode of The Monkees TV show. The song is Buckley's most famous due to a number of artists covering the song after his death in 1975, notably This Mortal Coil, and the fact it has the same eerie vibe, as his died far to young son Jeff's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
• This uptempo Motown sounding USA #13 (R&B #4) & UK #34 hit was written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland for the group from Detroit on the Invictus record label.
  
• The Welsh voice reached USA #25 with this dramatic ballad produced by Peter Sullivan, featuring a Johnnie Spence string arrangement.
  
• This straightforward Motown cover of the 1966 Ike & Tina Turner original. Produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson it peaked at USA #14 & UK #11 for the "Magnificent 7".
  

[raliverpool]

26/12/1970

01 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (4wks 25-3-1-1)
02 Badfinger - No Matter What (4wks 24-8-2-2)
03 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (5wks 29-16-7-5-3)
04 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (4wks 38-17-10-4)
05 Supremes - Stoned Love (6wks 24-19-19-10-7-5)
06 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (6wks 19-11-6-6-6-6)
07 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (6wks 18-8-3-2-3-7)
08 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (3wks 37-14-8)
09 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (3wks 22-13-9)
10 Van Morrison - Domino (3wks 31-15-10)

11 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (2wks 23-11)
12 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (6wks 37-26-18-13-12-12)
13 Santana - Black Magic Woman (4wks 40-30-19-13)
14 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (7wks 21-8-2-1-1-4-14)
15 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (3wks 40-25-15)
16 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (5wks 30-10-5-8-16)
17 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (5wks 36-21-9-11-17)
18 David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle (3wks 20-16-18)
19 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (6wks 32-18-9-4-9-19)
20 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (2wks 30-20)

21 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (4wks 36-29-21-21)
22 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (5wks 38-29-25-20-22)
23 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (4wks 35-34-28-23)
24 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (1wk 24 NEW)
25 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (2wks 35-25)
26 James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (3wks 39-31-26)
27 Tom Jones - Can't Stop Loving You (2wks 36-27)
28 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (8wks 35-18-9-5-5-11-17-28)
29 King Floyd - Groove Me (1wk 29 NEW)
30 CCS - Whole Lotta Love (7wks 20-15-13-14-18-22-30)

31 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (3wks 38-32-31)
32 Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (9wks 27-13-10-7-7-8-14-18-32)
33 Cats - Where Have I Been Wrong (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Curved Air - It Happened Today (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Supremes & Four Tops - River Deep Mountain High (2wks 40-36)
37 Jackie Lee - Rupert (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Fleetwood Mac - Station Man (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Redeye - Games (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (11wks 27-16-11-5-3-1-1-2-12-24-40)

Eight new entries in the last week of 1970 from:

• This more potent USA #6 (AC #2), Canada #5 & UK #27 version of the folk singer's Laura Nyro original was resplendent with a brass and string section and backing vocalists to match the New York singing/actress legend powerful vocals. It was produced by Lou Adler and featured Carole King on piano and backing vocals.
  
• The New Orleans soul singer and songwriter's biggest hit was this Atlantic records USA #6 (R&B #1) funk soul classic.
• The Dutch pop rock band's native number one hit became a sizeable European hit going top ten in many territories was a midtempo acoustic heartfelt love song.
  
• The opening track to the former Pink Floyd frontman's second studio album, Barrett was produced by David Gilmour featuring "session" musicians Gilmour, Richard Wright (keyboards, Pink Floyd) and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley.
• The pioneering progressive London rock band fronted by the distinctive Sonja Kristina released this single from their UK #8 debut album Air Conditioning. It was written by the group's Francis Monkman & Sonja Kristina.
  
• The Irish singer who scored a big UK hit as Jacky with "White Horses", the theme from a Children's TV programme. Repeating that formula with the theme tune to the TV show based on the famous cartoon character, Rupert Bear reaching UK #14. PS. I completely forgot how much the theme to Blackadder ripped this song off.
  
• Written by the blues rock group's Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, and the soon to be member of the group Christine McVie is this melodic blues rock taken from their album Kiln House which failed to chart when released as a single.
• The Los Angeles harmonic folk rock band only USA top forty hit was this USA #27 written by their guitarist and backing vocalist Dave Hodgkins.

[raliverpool]

02/01/1971

01 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (5wks 25-3-1-1-1)
02 Badfinger - No Matter What (5wks 24-8-2-2-2)
03 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (5wks 38-17-10-4-3)
04 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (6wks 29-16-7-5-3-4)
05 Supremes - Stoned Love (7wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5)
06 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (7wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6)
07 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (4wks 37-14-8-7)
08 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (3wks 23-11-8)
09 Van Morrison - Domino (4wks 31-15-10-9)
10 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (4wks 22-13-9-10)

11 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (4wks 40-25-15-11)
12 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (3wks 30-20-12)
13 Santana - Black Magic Woman (5wks 40-30-19-13-13)
14 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (7wks 18-8-3-2-3-7-14)
15 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (2wks 24-15)
16 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (7wks 37-26-18-13-12-12-16)
17 Kinks - Apeman (1wk 17 NEW)
18 King Floyd - Groove Me (2wks 29-18)
19 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (3wks 35-25-19)
20 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (1wk 20 NEW)

21 John Lennon - God (1wk 21 NEW)
22 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (5wks 35-34-28-23-23)
24 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (5wks 36-29-21-21-24)
25 Elton John - Your Song (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (1wk 26 NEW)
27 David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle (4wks 20-16-18-27)
28 James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (4wks 39-31-26-28)
29 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (6wks 36-21-9-11-17-29)
30 Cats - Where Have I Been Wrong (2wks 33-30)

31 McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone (6wks 30-10-5-8-16-31)
32 Jackie Lee - Rupert (2wks 37-32)
33 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (8wks 21-8-2-1-1-4-14-33)
34 Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play? (6wks 38-29-25-20-22-35)
36 Tom Jones - Can't Stop Loving You (4wks 36-27-36)
37 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (4wks 38-32-31-37)
38 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (7wks 32-18-9-4-9-19-38)
39 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Eric Clapton - After Midnight (9wks 35-18-9-5-5-11-17-28-40)

Eight new entries this week from:

• The Ray Davies penned UK #5 & USA #45, Germany #8 & Australia #9 nostalgic rock song taken from the album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One.
• Co-written by Gloria "Tainted Love" Jones, this much covered mid tempo dramatic jazzy soul pop ballad reached USA #9 (R&B #1).
  
• Culled from his first post-Beatles solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, this sparsely produced track was considered controversial upon release, dealing with anti-religious themes, and featured the immortal line "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me ....... The dream is over".
• The title track of his first post-Beatles solo album, was written late 1968, and had been rejected and had been rejected for inclusion on their Let It Be album. The subject matter deals with the transient nature of human existence, and many music critics and the public came to view the song as a statement on the Beatles' break-up.
  
• This UK #7 & USA #8 (& global top 20 smash hit) ballad composed and performed by the English musician with lyrics by his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. This much covered classic originally appeared on the piano man's self-titled second album.
• This haunting changing tempo orchestral pop ballad appeared on Barry, Maurice (& the returning) Robin's album 2 Years On, and was released as a single where this Beatlesque recording peaked at USA #3, UK #33, Australia #8, and topped the charts in Canada.
• Originally recorded in 1966, this track was given a "Northern Soul" mix and released as a single it gave the Four Seasons lead singer a UK #11 hit.
  
• The first release from his self titled & self penned solo debut reached USA #14. This gospel folk rock release featured Rita Coolidge, David Crosby & Graham Nash on backing vocals.

[raliverpool]

Retro Rewind Chart toppers (1960-1970):

001 Marty Robbins - El Paso (2wks Jan 60)
002 Johnny Preston - Running Bear (3wks Jan 60)
003 Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me (3wks Feb 60)
004 Percy Faith - Theme From 'A Summer Place' (7wks Feb 60)
005 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You (4wks Apr 60)
006 Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown (3wks May 60)
007 Etta James - All I Could Do Was Cry (3wks May 60)
008 Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven (3wks Jun 60)
009 Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry (2wks Jul 60)
010 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over (5wks Jul 60)
011 Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never (1wk Aug 60)
012 Shadows - Apache (4wks Sep 60)
013 Connie Francis - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own (1wk Oct 60)
014 Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (1wk Oct 60)
015 Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me (4wks Oct 60)
016 Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind (2wks Nov 60)
017 Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn (1wk Nov 60)
018 Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight (3wks Dec 60)
019 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (2wks Dec 60)

020 Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow (4wks Jan 61)
021 Etta James - At Last (4Wks Feb 61)
022 Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back (4wks Mar 61)
023 Floyd Cramer - On The Rebound (1wk Apr 61)
024 Marcels - Blue Moon (1wk Apr 61)
025 Del Shannon - Runaway (4wks Apr 61)
026 Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou (2 Wks May 61)
027 Ben E King - Stand By Me (3wks Jun 61)
028 Dee Clark - Raindrops (1wk Jun 61)
029 Gary US Bonds - Quarter To Three (1wk Jul 61)
030 Brook Benton - The Boll Weevil Song (1wk Jul 61)
031 Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise (3wks Jul 61)
032 Helen Shapiro - You Don't Know (2wks Aug 61)
033 John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me (5wks Aug 61)
034 Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby (2wks Sep 61)
035 Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack (2wks Oct 61)
036 Helen Shapiro - Walkin' Back To Happiness (3wks Oct 61)
037 Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John (2wks Nov 61)
038 Patsy Cline - Crazy (2wks Nov 61)
039 Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (2wks Dec 61)
040 Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums (3wks Dec 61)

041 Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (1wks Jan 62)
042 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Young Ones (2wks Jan 62)
043 Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain (4wks Feb 62)
044 Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl (2wks Mar 62)
045 Shadows - Wonderful Land (5wks Mar 62)
046 Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm (2wks Apr 62)
047 Shirelles - Soldier Boy (1wks May 62)
048 B Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker (2wks May 62)
049 Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You (5wks May 62)
050 Orlons - The Wah Watusi (2wks Jul 62)
051 Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (3wks Jul 62)
052 Little Eva - The Loco-Motion (2wks Aug 62)
053 Elvis Presley - She's Not You (2wks Sep 62)
054 Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions (1wks Sep 62)
055 Tornados - Telstar (4wks Sep 62)
056 Crystals - He's A Rebel (2wks Oct 62)
057 Arthur Alexander - Anna (Go To Him) (1wk Nov 62)
058 Elvis Presley - Return To Sender (5wks Nov 62)
059 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Next Time (2wks Dec 62)

060 Exciters - Tell Him (2wks Jan 63)
061 Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1wks Jan 63)
062 Drifters - Up On The Roof (1wk Feb 63)
063 Beatles - Please Please Me (5wks Feb 63)
064 Ruby & The Romantics - Our Day Will Come (2wks Mar 63)
065 Shadows - Foot Tapper (1wks Mar 63)
066 Peter Paul & Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon (3wks Apr 63)
067 Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You (1wk Apr 63)
068 Beatles - From Me To You (2wks May 63)
069 Brenda Lee - Losing You (1wk May 63)
070 Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy (1wk May 63)
071 Lesley Gore - It's My Party (4wks Jun 63)
072 Chiffons - One Fine Day (2wks Jun 63)
073 Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire (2wks Jul 63)
074 Beatles - Twist And Shout (4wks Jul 63)
075 Angels - My Boyfriend's Back (2wks Aug 63)
076 Beatles - She Loves You (5wks Sep 63)
077 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone (5wks Oct 63)
078 Rufus Thomas - Walking The Dog (1wk Nov 63)
079 Beatles - All My Loving (1wk Dec 63)
080 Kingsmen - Louie Louie (3wks Dec 63)

081 Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over (3wks Jan 64)
082 Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2wks Jan 64)
083 Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me (1wk Feb 64)
084 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (3wks Feb 64)
085 Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart (2wks Mar 64)
086 Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away (1wk Mar 64)
087 Hollies - Just One Look (1wk Mar 64)
088 Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) (3wks Apr 64)
089 Millie - My Boy Lollipop (1wk Apr 64)
090 Mary Wells - My Guy (1wk May 64)
091 Gerry & The Pacemakers - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (2wks May 64)
092 Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love (2wks May 64)
093 Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go (1wk Jun 64)
094 Beach Boys - I Get Around (3wks Jun 64)
095 Animals - House Of The Rising Sun (2wks Jul 64)
096 Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (3wks Jul 64)
097 Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy (2wks Aug 64)
098 Honeycombs - Have I The Right (1wks Aug 64)
099 Kinks - You Really Got Me (3wks Sep 64)
100 Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman (3wks Sep 64)
101 Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street (2wks Oct 64)
102 Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (2wks Oct 64)
103 Shangri-Las - The Leader Of The Pack (2wks Nov 64)
104 Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night (1wk Nov 64)
105 Petula Clark - Downtown (2wks Dec 64)
106 Beatles - I Feel Fine (4wks Dec 64)

107 Searchers - Love Potion No. 9 (1wk Jan 65)
108 Moody Blues - Go Now (1wks Jan 65)
109 Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (3wks Jan 65)
110 Temptations - My Girl (2wks Feb 65)
111 Velvelettes - He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' (1wk Mar 65)
112 Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual (1wks Mar 65)
113 Rolling Stones - The Last Time (3wks Mar 65)
114 Yardbirds - For Your Love (2wks Apr 65)
115 Beatles - Ticket To Ride (3wks Apr 65)
116 Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Count Me In (2wks May 65)
117 Them - Gloria (3wks May 65)
118 Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (2wks Jun 65)
119 Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (5wks Jul 65)
120 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe (1wk Aug 65)
121 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (4wks Aug 65)
122 Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself (1wk Sep 65)
123 Beatles - Yesterday (4wks Sep 65)
124 Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud (3wks Oct 65)
125 Fontella Bass - Rescue Me (1wk Nov 65)
126 Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year (1wks Nov 65)
127 Who - My Generation (2wks Dec 65)
128 Seekers - The Carnival Is Over (3wks Dec 65)

129 Beatles - In My Life (2wks Jan 66)
130 Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running (1wk Jan 66)
131 T-Bones - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) (1wk Jan 66)
132 Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) (2wks Feb 66)
133 Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes (1wk Feb 66)
134 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (2wks Feb 66)
135 Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' (2wks Mar 66)
136 Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (3wks Mar 66)
137 Who - Substitute (1wk Apr 66)
138 Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (2wks Apr 66)
139 Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo (1wk May 66)
140 Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb (2wks May 66)
141 Troggs - Wild Thing (1wk Jun 66)
142 Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (3wks Jun 66)
143 Beatles - Rain (2wks Jul 66)
144 Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (2wks Jul 66)
145 Shangri-Las - Past, Present & Future (1wk Jul 66)
146 Dusty Springfield - Goin' Back (2wks Jul 66)
147 Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City (1wk Aug 66)
148 Beach Boys - God Only Knows (3wks Aug 66)
149 Small Faces - All Or Nothing (2wks Sep 66)
150 Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (3wks Sep 66)
151 Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There (4wks Oct 66)
152 Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (5wks Nov 66)
153 Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (1wk Dec 66)
154 Kinks - Dead End Street (2wks Dec 66)

155 Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is (2wks Jan 67)
156 Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness (2wks Jan 67)
157 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe (2wks Feb 67)
158 Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina (2wks Feb 67)
159 Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (3wks Mar 67)
160 Beatles - Penny Lane (1wk Mar 67)
161 Turtles - Happy Together (1wk Apr 67)
162 Alan Price Set - Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear (2wks Apr 67)
163 Velvet Underground & Nico - I'm Waiting for the Man (2wks Apr 67)
164 Vicky Leandros - L'amour est Bleu (2wks May 67)
165 Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden (1wk May 67)
166 Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (2wks May 67)
167 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (1wk Jun 67)
168 Beatles - A Day In The Life (5wks Jun 67)
169 Doors - Light My Fire (2wks Jul 67)
170 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (1wk Aug 67)
171 Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (2wks Aug 67)
172 Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (4wks Aug 67)
173 Keith West - Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' (3wks Sep 67)
174 Box Tops - The Letter (1wk Oct 67)
175 Bee Gees - Massachusetts (1wk Oct 67)
176 Lulu - To Sir With Love (2wks Oct 67)
177 David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer (2wks Nov 67)
178 Who - I Can See For Miles (1wk Nov 67)
179 Monkees - Daydream Believer (3wks Dec 67)
180 Beatles - Hello Goodbye (4wks Dec 67)

181 Small Faces - Tin Soldier (1wk Jan 68)
182 Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow (1wk Jan 68)
183 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning (2wks Feb 68)
184 Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn (2wks Feb 68)
185 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (3wks Mar 68)
186 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Legend Of Xanadu (1wk Mar 68)
187 Tom Jones - Delilah (3wks Mar 68)
188 Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (2wk Apr 68)
189 Small Faces - Lazy Sunday (2wks May 68)
190 Love - Alone Again Or (2wks May 68)
191 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (2wks Jun 68)
192 Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (4wks Jun 68)
193 Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde (1wk Jul 68)
194 Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness (1wk Jul 68)
195 Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (2wks Jul 68)
196 Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (1wk Aug 68)
197 Kinks - Days (2wks Aug 68)
198 Harry Nilsson - One (1wk Aug 68)
199 Jeannie C Riley - Harper Valley PTA (2wks Sep 68)
200 Beatles - Hey Jude (9wks Sep 68)
201 Barry Ryan - Eloise (1wk Nov 68)
202 Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (2wks Nov 68)
203 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (3wks Dec 68)

204 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (2wks Jan 69)
205 Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man (1wk Jan 69)
206 Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson And Clover (2wks Jan 69)
207 Move - Blackberry Way (1wk Feb 69)
208 Doors - Touch Me (1wk Feb 69)
209 Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (2wks Feb 69)
210 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (3wks Mar 69)
211 Zombies - Time Of The Season (2wks Mar 69)
212 Desmond Dekker & The Aces - The Israelites (3wks Apr 69)
213 Cream - Badge (2wks May 69)
214 Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World (4wks May 69)
215 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (3wks Jun 69)
216 Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air (3wks Jul 69)
217 Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (1wks Jul 69)
218 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (5wks Aig 69)
219 Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (1wk Sep 69)
220 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (2wks Sep 69)
221 Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1wk Sep 69
222 Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home (2wks Oct 69)
223 Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime (1wk Oct 69)
224 David Bowie - Space Oddity (3wks Oct 69)
225 Beatles - Something (4wks Nov 69)
226 Beatles - The Abbey Road Medley (2wks Dec 69)
227 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (2wks Dec 69)

228 Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (2wks Jan 70)
229 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (2wks Jan 70)
230 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Grows) (2wks Feb 70)
231 Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin) (1wk Feb 70)
232 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (5wks Feb 70)
233 Beatles - Let It Be (4wks Apr 70)
234 George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag (2wks May 70)
235 Moody Blues - Question (3wks May 70)
236 Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (3wks Jun 70)
237 Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi (2wks Jun 70)
238 Free - All Right Now (1wk Jul 70)
239 Freda Payne - Band Of Gold (3wks Jul 70)
240 Kinks - Lola (2wk Aug 70)
241 James Brown - Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (2wk Aug 70)
242 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown (1wk Sep 70)
243 Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song (3wks Sep 70)
244 Michael Nesmith - Joanne (1wk Oct 70)
245 Matt Monro - We're Gonna Change The World (1wk Oct 70)
246 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (2wks Oct 70)
247 James Taylor - Fire & Rain (3wks Oct 70)
248 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (2wks Nov 70)
249 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (2wks Dec 70)
250 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (3wks Dec 70 +)

[raliverpool]

09/01/1971

01 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (6wks 25-3-1-1-1-1)
02 Supremes - Stoned Love (6wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2)
03 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (8wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6-3)
04 Badfinger - No Matter What (6wks 24-8-2-2-2-4)
05 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (6wks 38-17-10-4-3-5)
06 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (4wks 30-20-12-6)
07 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (5wks 40-25-15-11-7)
08 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (4wks 23-11-8-8)
09 Kinks - Apeman (2wks 17-9)
10 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (5wks 37-14-8-7-10)

11 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (2wks 26-11)
12 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (3wks 24-15-12)
13 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (2wks 22-13)
14 King Floyd - Groove Me (3wks 29-18-14)
15 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (7wks 29-16-7-5-3-4-15)
16 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (2wks 20-16)
17 John Lennon - God (2wks 21-17)
18 Van Morrison - Domino (5wks 31-15-10-9-18)
19 Elton John - Your Song (2wks 25-19)
20 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (4wks 35-25-19-20)

21 Santana - Black Magic Woman (6wks 40-30-19-13-13-21)
22 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (5wks 22-13-9-10-22)
23 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (2wks 39-23)
24 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (6wks 35-34-28-23-23-24)
25 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (8wks 37-26-18-13-12-12-16-25)
26 Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now (2wks 34-26)
27 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking (8wks 18-8-3-2-3-7-14-28)
29 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Dolly Parton - Joshua (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Cats - Where Have I Been Wrong (3wks 33-30-32)
33 Jackie Lee - Rupert (3wks 37-32-33)
34 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (1wk 34 NEW)
35 John Lennon - Mother (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Aretha Franklin - Border Song (6wks 36-29-21-21-24-36)
37 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Three Dog Night - One Man Band (1wk 38 NEW)
39 James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (5wks 39-31-26-28-39)
40 Emitt Rhodes - Fresh As A Daisy (1wk 40 NEW)

Nine new entries this week from:

• The North Dakota born country singer's Grammy Award winning cover of a Joe South composition reached USA #3 (CW #1) & UK #3, and topped the charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, & Norway.
  
• This power pop ballad written by the multi-instrumentalist, & producer of The Band's Stage Fright album reached USA #20 & UK #20 was influenced by his then girlfriend singer/songwriter Laura Nyro & good friend singer/songwriter Carole King.
  
• The North London ska pop group reached UK #9 with their guitarist Eddy Grant's composition.
  
• The breakthrough maiden USA country #1 hit (& USA #108) was an uptempo bluesy country song written by the Tennessee born country music legend.
  
• This famous piano led haunting folk rock Tea for the Tillerman album cut was released as a single in Europe, and received sizeable airplay in the USA & UK.
  
• This uncommercial USA #43 single was culled from the former Beatles debut solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band where it was the opening track. It was written as a cry to both his parents, who abandoned him in his childhood. His father, Alf, left the family when John was an infant. His mother, Julia, didn't live with her son, although they had a good relationship; she was hit and killed in a car accident on 15 July 1958 by a drunk off-duty policeman, when John was aged 17. The track has been covered by the likes of Barbra Streisand; Christina Aguilera; and Shelby Lynne.
  
• The Atom Heart Mother album pastoral folk ballad cut was written by guitarist David Gilmour, and has received several live airing since. The bell sounds heard at the beginning and the end of the song were later used again in "High Hopes" from their album The Division Bell and in "Louder than Words" from their album The Endless River.
  
• This USA #19 rock song was written by Billy Fox, Tommy Kaye, and January Tyme and featured on their 1970 album, Naturally.
• The Illnois born 1970s cult singer/songwriter enjoyed his biggest commercial success with his self penned USA #54 Power Pop hit taken from his USA top 30 album Emitt Rhodes.
  

[raliverpool]

16/01/1971

01 Supremes - Stoned Love (7wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2-1)

02 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (9wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6-3-2)
03 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (7wks 25-3-1-1-1-1-3)
04 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (6wks 40-25-15-11-7-4)
05 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (5wks 30-20-12-6-5)
06 Kinks - Apeman (3wks 17-9-6)
07 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (3wks 26-11-7)
08 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (3wks 22-13-8)
09 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (5wks 23-11-8-8-9)
10 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (4wks 24-15-12-10)

11 Badfinger - No Matter What (7wks 24-8-2-2-2-4-11)
12 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (3wks 20-16-12)
13 King Floyd - Groove Me (4wks 29-18-14-13)
14 Elton John - Your Song (3wks 25-19-14)
15 John Lennon - Mother (2wks 35-15)
16 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (7wks 38-17-10-4-3-5-16)
17 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (3wks 39-23-17)
18 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (2wks 27-18)
19 John Lennon - God (3wks 21-17-19)
20 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (2wks 29-20)

21 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (2wks 34-21)
22 Dolly Parton - Joshua (2wks 31-22)
23 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (6wks 37-14-8-7-10-23)
24 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (2wks 30-24)
25 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (2wks 37-25)
26 Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now (3wks 34-26-26)
27 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (5wks 35-25-19-20-27)
28 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (1wk 28 NEW)
29 Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Blame It On The Pony Express (7wks 35-34-28-23-23-24-29)
30 Van Morrison - Domino (6wks 31-15-10-9-18-30)

31 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (8wks 29-16-7-5-3-4-15-31)
32 James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Elton John - Border Song (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Diana Ross - Remember Me (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Santana - Black Magic Woman (7wks 40-30-19-13-13-21-35)
36 Emitt Rhodes - Fresh As A Daisy (2wks 40-36)
37 Python Lee Jackson ft Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream (9wks 37-26-18-13-12-12-16-25-37)
38 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (6wks 22-13-9-10-22-38)
39 Curtis Mayfield - If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Edwin Starr - Stop The War Now (1wk 40 NEW)

The first ever Retro Rewind number one by the Motown trio, now consisting of Jean Terrell, Mary Wilson, and Cindy Birdsong. Will Diana Ross achieve a solo number one on my chart, which she failed to do as part of the Supremes (Baby Love; Stop! In The Name Of Love; & Reflections all peaked at #2).

Six new entries this week from:

• The Californian country folk group's USA #9 cover of the Jerry Jeff Walker original.
  
• The soft rock lullaby which was the opening and title track from the Boston, Massachusetts born singer/songwriter's 1970 second album.
• The gospel ballad taken from the English singer/songwriter's second album Elton John, which was covered by Aretha Franklin. This version made USA #92 having earlier flopped in the UK.
  
• The third solo single by the former Supreme was written and produced by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson. It reached USA #16 & UK #7 and was taken from the forthcoming album Surrender.
  
• This self penned & produced USA #29 (R&B #3) soul/funk song written as a warning regarding the state of race relations and the tempest growing in America's inner cities.
  
• Very much in a similar musical & lyrical vein as his previous Psychedelic soul smash hit "War" (again composed by producer Norman Whitfield, with Barrett Strong), was an anti-Vietnam war song reached USA #26 (R&B #5) & UK #33.
  

[raliverpool]

23/01/1971

01 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (4wks 26-11-7-1)

02 Supremes - Stoned Love (8wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2-1-2)
03 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (4wks 22-13-8-3)
04 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (10wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6-3-2-4)
05 John Lennon - Mother (3wks 35-15-5)
06 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (7wks 40-25-15-11-7-4-6)
07 Kinks - Apeman (4wks 17-9-6-7)
08 Elton John - Your Song (4wks 25-19-14-8)
09 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (5wks 24-15-12-10-9)
10 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (8wks 25-3-1-1-1-1-3-10)

11 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (4wks 20-16-12-11)
12 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (6wks 30-20-12-6-5-12)
13 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (3wks 34-21-13)
14 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (3wks 29-20-14)
15 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (3wks 27-18-15)
16 King Floyd - Groove Me (5wks 29-18-14-13-16)
17 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (4wks 39-23-17-17)
18 Dolly Parton - Joshua (3wks 31-22-18)
19 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (3wks 37-25-19)
20 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (3wks 30-24-20)

21 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (6wks 23-11-8-8-9-21)
22 Elton John - Border Song (2wks 33-22)
23 Judy Collins - Amazing Grace (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (2wks 28-24)
25 Tom Jones - She's A Lady (1wk 25 NEW)
26 James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (2wks 32-26)
27 Diana Ross - Remember Me (2wks 34-27)
28 Badfinger - No Matter What (8wks 24-8-2-2-2-4-11-28)
29 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (1wk 29 NEW)
30 John Lennon - God (4wks 21-17-19-30)

31 Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now (4wks 34-26-26-31)
32 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed (8wks 38-17-10-4-3-5-16-32)
33 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Curtis Mayfield - If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go (2wks 39-34)
35 Jackie Moore - Precious Precious (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Emitt Rhodes - Fresh As A Daisy (3wks 40-36-36)
37 T Rex - Seagull Woman (1wk 38 NEW)
38 Badfinger - We're For The Dark (1wk 39 NEW)
39 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (7wks 37-14-8-7-10-23-39)
40 Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (1wk 40 NEW)

The Brothers Gibb score their second Retro Rewind chart-topper with this haunting changing tempo track (which is Noel Gallagher's favourite Bee Gees song, which he accurately IMHO described as the missing link between The Beatles & Take That!).

Eight new entries are from:

• The 1960s Washington born folk singer known as "Judy Blue Eyes" reached USA #15, UK #5, & Australia #10 with this cover of the Christian hymn written by John Newton which was published in 1779.
  
• Written by pre Beatles teen idol Paul Anka, this uptempo pop number reached UK #13, USA #2, Canada #1, and was a top ten hit across Europe and Australia.
  
• Written by the New York art rock group's then-leader Lou Reed, this Loaded album cut was a tribute to the music that inspired him, and is musically The Strokes 30 years before Julian Casablancas' group existed..
• The Canadian folk songwriter's USA #5 (AC #1) & UK #30 hit which topped his native national pop charts was written about his impending divorce at his Toronto house. In 1986 he launched a plagiarism lawsuit against the 1977 George Benson hit written by Michael Masser & Linda Creed "The Greatest Love Of All" (which Whitney Houston turned into a global 1986 smash hit), but dropped the case after Linda Creed died of cancer in return of an undisclosed sum or royalties going to cancer related charities.
  
• The Florida born R&B soul singer reached USA #30 (R&B #12) with this Atlantic soul recording.
  
• Taken from the 5th studio album by Marc Bolan's folk rock outfit. This Tony Visconti produced track had an electric rock sound and featured Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (both of The Turtles) on backing vocals, so setting a template for feature releases.
  
• This stunning haunting Pete Ham folk composition from the Swansea/Liverpool power pop group's No Dice album produced by Geoff Emerick, was inspired from Act 5, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra." After Caesar leaves Cleopatra, thinking he has secured her for his own purposes, Cleopatra reveals to her ladies that she has already planned to kill herself. Iras, says to her, "Finish, good Lady, the bright day is done, and we are for the dark."
  
• This country rock 1970 American Beauty album cut was written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir. A live version of this recording was released as a single in 1973 peaking at USA #91.

[raliverpool]

30/01/1971

01 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (5wks 26-11-7-1-1)
02 John Lennon - Mother (4wks 35-15-5-2)
03 Elton John - Your Song (5wks 25-19-14-8-3)
04 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (5wks 22-13-8-3-4)
05 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (4wks 34-21-13-5)
06 Supremes - Stoned Love (9wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2-1-2-6)
07 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (4wks 29-20-14-7)
08 Kinks - Apeman (5wks 17-9-6-7-8)
09 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (6wks 24-15-12-10-9-9)
10 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (4wks 27-18-15-10)

11 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (2wks 29-11)
12 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (5wks 20-16-12-11-12)
13 Elton John - Border Song (3wks 33-22-13)
14 Tom Jones - She's A Lady (2wks 25-14)
15 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (8wks 40-25-15-11-7-4-6-15)
16 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (11wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6-3-2-4-16)
17 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (4wks 37-25-19-17)
18 Dolly Parton - Joshua (4wks 31-22-18-18)
19 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (2wks 33-19)
20 Judy Collins - Amazing Grace (2wks 23-20)

21 King Floyd - Groove Me (6wks 29-18-14-13-16-21)
22 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (3wks 28-24-22)
23 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (4wks 30-24-20-23)
24 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (5wks 39-23-17-17-24)
25 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (7wks 30-20-12-6-5-12-25)
26 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (9wks 25-3-1-1-1-1-3-10-26)
27 Diana Ross - Remember Me (3wks 34-27-27)
28 James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (3wks 32-26-28)
29 Badfinger - We're For The Dark (2wks 39-29)
30 Mixtures - Pushbike Song (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (2wks 40-31)
32 T Rex - Seagull Woman (2wks 38-32)
33 Jackie Moore - Precious Precious (2wks 35-33)
34 Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Isaac Hayes - Ike's Rap I (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Band - The Shape I'm In (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Rare Earth - Born To Wander (1wk 37 NEW)
38 George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity (7wks 23-11-8-8-9-21-38)
39 Tony Christie - Las Vegas (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Laura Nyro - When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag (1wk 40 NEW)

Seven new entries on the Retro Rewind Chart from:

• The Melbourne pop band's Australian #1, UK #2 & USA #44 hit which was inspired by the Mungo Jerry 1970 smash hit "In The Summertime" and it was produced by Australian record producer David MacKay (more of whom later).
• The London based power rock trio consisting of three members who had all been journeyman musicians during the 1960s Beat, psychedelic & blues boom, reached UK #3 & USA #40 with their only hit. After the band's demise, Tony Ashton went on to play for Medicine Head, and was briefly in Family before teaming up again with Deep Purple's Jon Lord in Ashton & Lord. Later still he appeared with Lord and Purple's drummer Ian Paice as Paice Ashton Lord. Dyke and then Gardner joined Badger.
  
• The self penned spoken word opening track from the Stax producer, musician & songwriter's 1970 soul album ...To Be Continued.
  
• Written by the Canadian group's guitarist Robbie Robertson. This roots rock Cajun track was written about being on death row for murdering an annoying colleague. Robbie Robertson later admitted the USA #62 hit was written about Richard Manuel, the song's principal singer. Ouch!
• Motown's white rock band reached USA #17 with the Detroit group's self penned progressive folk rock effort.
  
• The Yorkshire born Anthony Fitzgerald discovered and managed by Harvey Lisberg, his debut single reached UK #21 set his more successful template by being a dramatic big-voiced numbers written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander.
  
• The shortest track on the New York singer/songwriter's 4th studio album Christmas and the Beads of Sweat was a relatively light joyful piano led track harking back to her earliest material, and highlights her influence on imminent releases by Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Bette Midler.
  

[raliverpool]

06/02/1971

01 Elton John - Your Song (6wks 25-19-14-8-3-1)

02 John Lennon - Mother (5wks 35-15-5-2-2)
03 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (5wks 34-21-13-5-3)
04 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (6wks 26-11-7-1-1-4)
05 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (3wks 29-11-5)
06 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (5wks 29-20-14-7-6)
07 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (5wks 27-18-15-10-7)
08 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (6wks 22-13-8-3-4-8)
09 Elton John - Border Song (4wks 33-22-13-9)
10 Tom Jones - She's A Lady (3wks 25-14-10)

11 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (3wks 33-19-11)
12 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (7wks 24-15-12-10-9-9-12)
13 Kinks - Apeman (6wks 17-9-6-7-8-13)
14 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (6wks 20-16-12-11-12-14)
15 Supremes - Stoned Love (10wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2-1-2-6-15)
16 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (5wks 37-25-19-17-16)
17 Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle (2wks 34-17)
18 Judy Collins - Amazing Grace (3wks 23-20-18)
19 Dolly Parton - Joshua (5wks 31-22-18-18-19)
20 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (4wks 28-24-22-20)

21 Band - The Shape I'm In (2wks 36-21)
22 Mixtures - Pushbike Song (2wks 30-22)
23 Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Badfinger - We're For The Dark (3wks 39-29-24)
25 Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (3wks 40-31-25)
26 Kinks - This Time Tomorrow (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (5wks 30-24-20-23-27)
28 Diana Ross - Remember Me (4wks 34-27-27-28)
29 T Rex - Seagull Woman (3wks 38-32-29)
30 King Floyd - Groove Me (7wks 29-18-14-13-16-21-30)

31 Neil Young - Southern Man (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain (9wks 40-25-15-11-7-4-6-15-32)
33 Elton John - My Father's Gun (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With (6wks 39-23-17-17-24-34)
35 T Rex - Ride A White Swan (12wks 19-11-6-6-6-6-6-3-2-4-16-35)
36 Laura Nyro - When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag (2wks 40-36)
37 James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (4wks 32-26-28-37)
38 Bread - Let Your Love Go (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Rufus Thomas - (Do The) Push and Pull (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Cliff Richard - Sunny Honey Girl (1wk 40 NEW)

The Pinner, Middlesex born Reginald Dwight scores his maiden Retro Rewind Chart topping track with a stonewall GOAT pop classic contender .... I suspect this won't be the last time he tops my chart during the 1970s....

Seven new entries arrive from:

• The classic near 7 minutes 30 seconds improvised blues rock ballad written by Jimmy Page; John Paul Jones & Robert Plant was taken from their III album. The highlight being Jimmy Page's guitar solo during the middle of the track.
  
• The Ray Davies penned Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One album track about travelling on tour and wishing to be back home, was memorably used in the Wes Anderson 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited.
  
• The divisive blues rock song penned by the Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist taken from his After The Goldrush album was describing the racism towards blacks in the American South, and asking the Deep South "when will you pay them back?". This "condescending and accusatory" tone of the lyrics resulted in Neil Young getting banned from some gigs in the Deep South, and resulting in the Southern American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd replying with "Sweet Home Alabama".
  
• The Elton John & Bernie Taupin composed 6 minutes + song taken from his third album Tumbleweed Connection tells the story of a young Confederate whose father has just been killed during the American Civil War. This soft rock Americana song later featured in the 2005 film Elizabethtown, starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.
  
• The opening track from the soft rock group's third album Manna, was a more rocking affair, and perhaps as this David Gates composition was going against their stereotype it peaked at USA #28.
  
• This self penned Stax single release peaked at USA #25 (R&B #1) for the 53 year old Mississippi born singer.
  
• This mid tempo cover of a 1970 The Pipkins album cut, was written by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Anthony Hiller, & J. Goodison and reached UK #19.
  

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13/02/1971

01 Elton John - Your Song (7wks 25-19-14-8-3-1-1)
02 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (4wks 29-11-5-2)
03 Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa (6wks 34-21-13-5-3-3)
04 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (6wks 27-18-15-10-7-4)
05 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (4wks 33-19-11-5)
06 John Lennon - Mother (6wks 35-15-5-2-2-6)
07 Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (2wks 23-7)
08 Elton John - Border Song (5wks 33-22-13-9-8)
09 Tom Jones - She's A Lady (4wks 25-14-10-9)
10 Todd Rundgren & Runt - We Gotta Get You A Woman (6wks 29-20-14-7-6-10)

11 Bee Gees - Lonely Days (7wks 26-11-7-1-1-4-11)
12 Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle (3wks 34-17-12)
13 Band - The Shape I'm In (3wks 36-21-13)
14 Neil Young - Southern Man (2wks 31-14)
15 Kinks - This Time Tomorrow (2wks 26-15)
16 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (7wks 22-13-8-3-4-8-16)
17 Elton John - My Father's Gun (2wks 33-17)
18 John Lennon - Working Class Hero (1wk 18 NEW)
19 George Harrison - I'd Have You Anytime (1wk 19 NEW)
20 Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman (7wks 20-16-12-11-12-14-20)

21 Kinks - Apeman (7wks 17-9-6-7-8-13-21)
22 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (6wks 37-25-19-17-16-22)
23 Mixtures - Pushbike Song (3wks 30-22-23)
24 Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (4wks 40-31-25-24)
25 Judy Collins - Amazing Grace (4wks 23-20-18-25)
26 Badfinger - We're For The Dark (4wks 39-29-24-26)
27 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (5wks 28-24-22-20-27)
28 Barbra Streisand - Stoney End (8wks 24-15-12-10-9-9-12-28)
29 Dolly Parton - Joshua (6wks 31-22-18-18-19-29)
30 Osmonds - One Bad Apple (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Supremes - Stoned Love (11wks 24-19-19-10-7-5-5-2-1-2-6-15-34)
35 T Rex - Seagull Woman (4wks 38-32-29-35)
36 Diana Ross - Remember Me (5wks 34-27-27-28-36)
37 Little Sister - Somebody's Watching You (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy (6wks 30-24-20-23-27-39)
40 Bobby Goldsboro - Watching Scotty Grow (1wk 40 NEW)

Nine more Retro Rewind New entries come from:

• The caustic folk song (in the words of John Lennon) "about working class individuals being processed into the middle classes, into the machine". This much covered John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album cut also appeared as the B-side of the title track single from his next commercial album "Imagine".
  
• Written by George Harrison (verse) and Bob Dylan (chorus), this bluesy mellow rock track featuring Eric Clapton on guitar, was the opening cut on side 1 of the "All Things Must Pass" album.
• Written by the southern soul singer George Jackson for the Jackson 5 (you could never guess by listening to this recording .... not!); the family Motown group recorded it, only for Berry Gordy Jr to reject it!. Hence, the Salt Lake City family group recorded resulting in a USA #1 & Canada hit for their white equivalent.
• This much covered roots rock ballad written and produced by John Fogerty which peaked at USA #8 & UK #36, was written about the state of the group due to the fact they had achieved their ambitions but were now unhappy. They split acrimoniously by the end of 1972.
  
• Written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock, as an unrequited love song for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison, and appears on the 1970 double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Culled as a single it reached USA #91.
• The Midland pioneering Hard Rock group's 7 minute long song about Vietnam veterans getting addicted to Heroin to get over the atrocities of war.
  
• Produced by its writer Sly Stone this USA #32 rerecording of the Sly & The Family Stone's 1969 Stand album cut, in retrospect gave a strong indication as to the sound of the next Sly & The Family Stone album "There's A Riot Goin' On".
  
• The Michigan hard rock group's cover of the 1966 Animals hit, became a minor UK #50, but remained unreleased in the USA.
  
• Written by country music singer-songwriter Mac Davis, the We Gotta Start Lovin' album track was released as a single and peaked at USA #11 (AC #1) & Canada #5.