POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 2, 1970
1

ABC

Jackson 5

—

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 1

2

Let It Be

The Beatles

—

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 2

3

Spirit In The Sky

Norman Greenbaum

—

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 3

4

American Woman/No Sugar Tonight

The Guess Who

↑ 1

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 5

5

Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

John Ono Lennon

↓ 1

Peak: 3 • 13 wks • Prev: 4

6

Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

The Friends Of Distinction

↑ 2

Peak: 6 • 13 wks • Prev: 8

7

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

Edison Lighthouse

↓ 1

Peak: 5 • 13 wks • Prev: 6

8

Come And Get It

Badfinger

↓ 1

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 7

9

Vehicle

The Ides Of March

↑ 10

Peak: 2 • 12 wks • Prev: 19

10

Turn Back The Hands Of Time

Tyrone Davis

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Peak: 3 • 13 wks • Prev: 10

11

Something's Burning

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 16 wks • Prev: 12

12

Up The Ladder To The Roof

The Supremes

↓ 1

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 11

13

Reflections Of My Life

The Marmalade

↑ 1

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 14

14

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

↓ 5

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 9

15

Woodstock

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 11 wks • Prev: 16

16

Everything Is Beautiful

Ray Stevens

↑ 5

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 21

17

For The Love Of Him

Bobbi Martin

↑ 1

Peak: 13 • 14 wks • Prev: 18

18

Easy Come, Easy Go

Bobby Sherman

↓ 5

Peak: 9 • 14 wks • Prev: 13

19

Cecilia

Simon & Garfunkel

↑ 8

Peak: 4 • 13 wks • Prev: 27

20

Love On A Two-Way Street

The Moments

↑ 13

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 33

21

The Bells

The Originals

↓ 4

Peak: 12 • 14 wks • Prev: 17

22

You're The One-Part II

Little Sister

—

Peak: 22 • 11 wks • Prev: 22

23

Tennessee Bird Walk

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan

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Peak: 23 • 13 wks • Prev: 23

24

Get Ready

Rare Earth

↑ 8

Peak: 4 • 20 wks • Prev: 32

25

You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 3

Peak: 25 • 8 wks • Prev: 28

26

Everybody's Out Of Town

B.J. Thomas

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Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 26

27

House Of The Rising Sun

Frijid Pink

↓ 12

Peak: 7 • 13 wks • Prev: 15

28

What Is Truth

Johnny Cash

↑ 3

Peak: 19 • 8 wks • Prev: 31

29

Little Green Bag

George Baker Selection

↑ 5

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 34

30

Up Around The Bend/Run Through The Jungle

Creedence Clearwater Revival

↑ 18

Peak: 4 • 11 wks • Prev: 48

31

Long Lonesome Highway

Michael Parks

↓ 11

Peak: 20 • 12 wks • Prev: 20

32

Which Way You Goin' Billy?

The Poppy Family (Featuring Susan Jacks)

↑ 6

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 38

33

Shilo

Neil Diamond

↓ 9

Peak: 24 • 14 wks • Prev: 24

34

Airport Love Theme (Gwen And Vern)

Vincent Bell

↑ 1

Peak: 31 • 8 wks • Prev: 35

35

Make Me Smile

Chicago

↑ 5

Peak: 9 • 14 wks • Prev: 40

36

Viva Tirado - Part I

El Chicano

↑ 18

Peak: 28 • 9 wks • Prev: 54

37

Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)

Diana Ross

↑ 12

Peak: 20 • 9 wks • Prev: 49

38

Puppet Man

The 5th Dimension

↑ 18

Peak: 24 • 8 wks • Prev: 56

39

Come Running

Van Morrison

—

Peak: 39 • 8 wks • Prev: 39

40

Come Saturday Morning

The Sandpipers

↑ 1

Peak: 17 • 20 wks • Prev: 41

41

The Letter

Joe Cocker with Leon Russell & The Shelter People

↑ 5

Peak: 7 • 12 wks • Prev: 46

42

Oh Happy Day

Glen Campbell

↑ 1

Peak: 40 • 8 wks • Prev: 43

43

Hey Lawdy Mama

Steppenwolf

↑ 9

Peak: 35 • 8 wks • Prev: 52

44

The Girls' Song

The 5th Dimension

—

Peak: 43 • 8 wks • Prev: 44

45

Miss America

Mark Lindsay

↑ 2

Peak: 44 • 8 wks • Prev: 47

46

Hitchin' A Ride

Vanity Fare

↑ 7

Peak: 5 • 22 wks • Prev: 53

47

California Girl

Eddie Floyd

↓ 2

Peak: 45 • 12 wks • Prev: 45

48

Let Me Go To Him

Dionne Warwick

↑ 10

Peak: 32 • 7 wks • Prev: 58

49

Daughter Of Darkness

Tom Jones

★ NEW

Peak: 13 • 9 wks

50

You Make Me Real/Roadhouse Blues

The Doors

↑ 5

Peak: 50 • 6 wks • Prev: 55

51

Chicken Strut

The Meters

↑ 9

Peak: 50 • 8 wks • Prev: 60

52

My Wife, The Dancer

Eddie & Dutch

↑ 16

Peak: 52 • 7 wks • Prev: 68

53

Don't Stop Now/Since I Don't Have You

Eddie Holman

↑ 6

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 59

54

So Excited

B.B. King

↑ 10

Peak: 54 • 6 wks • Prev: 64

55

Ticket To Ride

Carpenters

↑ 21

Peak: 54 • 12 wks • Prev: 76

56

Love Land

Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

↑ 7

Peak: 16 • 17 wks • Prev: 63

57

My Woman, My Woman, My Wife

Marty Robbins

↓ 7

Peak: 42 • 8 wks • Prev: 50

58

Children

Joe South

↓ 7

Peak: 51 • 7 wks • Prev: 51

59

Hum A Song (From Your Heart)

Lulu with The Dixie Flyers

↑ 15

Peak: 54 • 6 wks • Prev: 74

60

United We Stand

The Brotherhood Of Man

↑ 19

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 79

61

Cryin' In The Streets (Part 1)

George Perkins & The Silver Stars

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Peak: 61 • 6 wks • Prev: 61

62

My Baby Loves Lovin'

White Plains

↑ 25

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 87

63

The Seeker

The Who

↑ 15

Peak: 44 • 7 wks • Prev: 78

64

Deeper (In Love With You)

The O'Jays

↑ 3

Peak: 64 • 7 wks • Prev: 67

65

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

Bill Deal & The Rhondels

↓ 3

Peak: 62 • 7 wks • Prev: 62

66

O-o-h Child/Dear Prudence

The 5 Stairsteps

★ NEW

Peak: 8 • 16 wks

67

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers

↑ 22

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 89

69

Cinnamon Girl

The Gentrys

↑ 8

Peak: 52 • 12 wks • Prev: 77

70

Capture The Moment

Jay & The Americans

↓ 13

Peak: 57 • 6 wks • Prev: 57

71

The Onion Song/California Soul

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

↑ 23

Peak: 50 • 7 wks • Prev: 94

72

He Made A Woman Out Of Me

Bobbie Gentry

—

Peak: 71 • 5 wks • Prev: 72

73

Open Up My Heart/Nadine

The Dells

↑ 10

Peak: 51 • 8 wks • Prev: 83

74

Band Of Gold

Freda Payne

↑ 19

Peak: 3 • 20 wks • Prev: 93

75

Farther On Down The Road

Joe Simon

↑ 10

Peak: 56 • 8 wks • Prev: 85

76

Sugar Sugar/Cole, Cooke & Redding

Wilson Pickett

★ NEW

Peak: 25 • 12 wks

77

Brother Rapp (Part 1)

James Brown

★ NEW

Peak: 32 • 8 wks

78

Can You Feel It

Bobby Goldsboro

↑ 3

Peak: 75 • 6 wks • Prev: 81

79

Welfare Cadilac

Guy Drake

↑ 1

Peak: 63 • 14 wks • Prev: 80

80

Grover Henson Feels Forgotten

Bill Cosby

★ NEW

Peak: 70 • 3 wks

81

It's All In The Game

Four Tops

↑ 18

Peak: 24 • 13 wks • Prev: 99

82

I Who Have Nothing

Liquid Smoke

—

Peak: 82 • 3 wks • Prev: 82

83

Fire & Rain

R.B. Greaves

↑ 7

Peak: 82 • 3 wks • Prev: 90

84

My Way

Brook Benton

—

Peak: 72 • 6 wks • Prev: 84

85

I Can't Leave Your Love Alone

Clarence Carter

↑ 3

Peak: 42 • 14 wks • Prev: 88

86

(You've Got Me) Dangling On A String

Chairman Of The Board

★ NEW

Peak: 38 • 9 wks

87

Them Changes

Buddy Miles & The Freedom Express

★ NEW

Peak: 62 • 17 wks

88

Mississippi Queen

Mountain

★ NEW

Peak: 21 • 17 wks

89

Get Down People

Fabulous Counts

↑ 11

Peak: 88 • 4 wks • Prev: 100

90

More Than I Can Stand

Bobby Womack

↑ 8

Peak: 90 • 4 wks • Prev: 98

91

Lucifer

Bob Seger System

★ NEW

Peak: 84 • 6 wks

92

A Little Bit Of Soap

Paul Davis

—

Peak: 52 • 12 wks • Prev: 92

93

Darkness, Darkness

The Youngbloods

★ NEW

Peak: 86 • 4 wks

94

Question

The Moody Blues

★ NEW

Peak: 21 • 12 wks

95

I Got A Problem

Jesse Anderson

—

Peak: 95 • 2 wks • Prev: 95

96

Thank You Girl

Street People

—

Peak: 96 • 2 wks • Prev: 96

97

Angelica

Oliver

—

Peak: 97 • 3 wks • Prev: 97

98

Love Like A Man

Ten Years After

★ NEW

Peak: 98 • 2 wks

99

Check Yourself

I.A.P. Co. (the Italian Asphalt & Pavement Company)

★ NEW

Peak: 97 • 2 wks

100

Darling Dear

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

★ NEW

Peak: 100 • 1 wks

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