POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 9, 1970
1

American Woman/No Sugar Tonight

The Guess Who

↑ 3

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 4

2

ABC

Jackson 5

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 1

3

Let It Be

The Beatles

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 2

4

Vehicle

The Ides Of March

↑ 5

Peak: 2 • 12 wks • Prev: 9

5

Spirit In The Sky

Norman Greenbaum

↓ 2

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 3

6

Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

The Friends Of Distinction

—

Peak: 6 • 13 wks • Prev: 6

7

Everything Is Beautiful

Ray Stevens

↑ 9

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 16

8

Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

John Ono Lennon

↓ 3

Peak: 3 • 13 wks • Prev: 5

9

Turn Back The Hands Of Time

Tyrone Davis

↑ 1

Peak: 3 • 13 wks • Prev: 10

10

Reflections Of My Life

The Marmalade

↑ 3

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 13

11

Woodstock

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

↑ 4

Peak: 11 • 11 wks • Prev: 15

12

Something's Burning

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

↓ 1

Peak: 11 • 16 wks • Prev: 11

13

Up Around The Bend/Run Through The Jungle

Creedence Clearwater Revival

↑ 17

Peak: 4 • 11 wks • Prev: 30

14

Cecilia

Simon & Garfunkel

↑ 5

Peak: 4 • 13 wks • Prev: 19

15

For The Love Of Him

Bobbi Martin

↑ 2

Peak: 13 • 14 wks • Prev: 17

16

Love On A Two-Way Street

The Moments

↑ 4

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 20

17

Up The Ladder To The Roof

The Supremes

↓ 5

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 12

18

Come And Get It

Badfinger

↓ 10

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 8

19

Get Ready

Rare Earth

↑ 5

Peak: 4 • 20 wks • Prev: 24

20

What Is Truth

Johnny Cash

↑ 8

Peak: 19 • 8 wks • Prev: 28

21

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

↓ 7

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 14

22

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

Edison Lighthouse

↓ 15

Peak: 5 • 13 wks • Prev: 7

23

Which Way You Goin' Billy?

The Poppy Family (Featuring Susan Jacks)

↑ 9

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 32

24

Easy Come, Easy Go

Bobby Sherman

↓ 6

Peak: 9 • 14 wks • Prev: 18

25

Make Me Smile

Chicago

↑ 10

Peak: 9 • 14 wks • Prev: 35

26

The Letter

Joe Cocker with Leon Russell & The Shelter People

↑ 15

Peak: 7 • 12 wks • Prev: 41

27

Little Green Bag

George Baker Selection

↑ 2

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 29

28

Tennessee Bird Walk

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan

↓ 5

Peak: 23 • 13 wks • Prev: 23

29

Everybody's Out Of Town

B.J. Thomas

↓ 3

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 26

30

Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)

Diana Ross

↑ 7

Peak: 20 • 9 wks • Prev: 37

31

Daughter Of Darkness

Tom Jones

↑ 18

Peak: 13 • 9 wks • Prev: 49

32

Airport Love Theme (Gwen And Vern)

Vincent Bell

↑ 2

Peak: 31 • 8 wks • Prev: 34

33

Long Lonesome Highway

Michael Parks

↓ 2

Peak: 20 • 12 wks • Prev: 31

34

Puppet Man

The 5th Dimension

↑ 4

Peak: 24 • 8 wks • Prev: 38

35

Viva Tirado - Part I

El Chicano

↑ 1

Peak: 28 • 9 wks • Prev: 36

36

Come Saturday Morning

The Sandpipers

↑ 4

Peak: 17 • 20 wks • Prev: 40

37

Shilo

Neil Diamond

↓ 4

Peak: 24 • 14 wks • Prev: 33

38

Hey Lawdy Mama

Steppenwolf

↑ 5

Peak: 35 • 8 wks • Prev: 43

39

Let Me Go To Him

Dionne Warwick

↑ 9

Peak: 32 • 7 wks • Prev: 48

40

Oh Happy Day

Glen Campbell

↑ 2

Peak: 40 • 8 wks • Prev: 42

41

The Bells

The Originals

↓ 20

Peak: 12 • 14 wks • Prev: 21

42

Hitchin' A Ride

Vanity Fare

↑ 4

Peak: 5 • 22 wks • Prev: 46

43

The Girls' Song

The 5th Dimension

↑ 1

Peak: 43 • 8 wks • Prev: 44

44

Miss America

Mark Lindsay

↑ 1

Peak: 44 • 8 wks • Prev: 45

45

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

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↓ 20

Peak: 25 • 8 wks • Prev: 25

46

You're The One-Part II

Little Sister

↓ 24

Peak: 22 • 11 wks • Prev: 22

47

The Seeker

The Who

↑ 16

Peak: 44 • 7 wks • Prev: 63

48

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

Eddie Holman

↑ 5

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 53

49

Come Running

Van Morrison

↓ 10

Peak: 39 • 8 wks • Prev: 39

50

Chicken Strut

The Meters

↑ 1

Peak: 50 • 8 wks • Prev: 51

51

United We Stand

The Brotherhood Of Man

↑ 9

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 60

52

My Wife, The Dancer

Eddie & Dutch

—

Peak: 52 • 7 wks • Prev: 52

53

Love Land

Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

↑ 3

Peak: 16 • 17 wks • Prev: 56

54

Ticket To Ride

Carpenters

↑ 1

Peak: 54 • 12 wks • Prev: 55

55

Hum A Song (From Your Heart)

Lulu with The Dixie Flyers

↑ 4

Peak: 54 • 6 wks • Prev: 59

56

You Make Me Real/Roadhouse Blues

The Doors

↓ 6

Peak: 50 • 6 wks • Prev: 50

58

My Baby Loves Lovin'

White Plains

↑ 4

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 62

59

The Onion Song/California Soul

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

↑ 12

Peak: 50 • 7 wks • Prev: 71

60

Brother Rapp (Part 1)

James Brown

↑ 17

Peak: 32 • 8 wks • Prev: 77

61

So Excited

B.B. King

↓ 7

Peak: 54 • 6 wks • Prev: 54

62

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers

↑ 5

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 67

63

California Girl

Eddie Floyd

↓ 16

Peak: 45 • 12 wks • Prev: 47

64

Cinnamon Girl

The Gentrys

↑ 5

Peak: 52 • 12 wks • Prev: 69

65

Mississippi Queen

Mountain

↑ 23

Peak: 21 • 17 wks • Prev: 88

66

Band Of Gold

Freda Payne

↑ 8

Peak: 3 • 20 wks • Prev: 74

67

Sugar Sugar/Cole, Cooke & Redding

Wilson Pickett

↑ 9

Peak: 25 • 12 wks • Prev: 76

68

O-o-h Child/Dear Prudence

The 5 Stairsteps

↓ 2

Peak: 8 • 16 wks • Prev: 66

69

Deeper (In Love With You)

The O'Jays

↓ 5

Peak: 64 • 7 wks • Prev: 64

70

Cryin' In The Streets (Part 1)

George Perkins & The Silver Stars

↓ 9

Peak: 61 • 6 wks • Prev: 61

71

He Made A Woman Out Of Me

Bobbie Gentry

↑ 1

Peak: 71 • 5 wks • Prev: 72

72

Open Up My Heart/Nadine

The Dells

↑ 1

Peak: 51 • 8 wks • Prev: 73

73

Grover Henson Feels Forgotten

Bill Cosby

↑ 7

Peak: 70 • 3 wks • Prev: 80

74

Farther On Down The Road

Joe Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 56 • 8 wks • Prev: 75

75

Can You Feel It

Bobby Goldsboro

↑ 3

Peak: 75 • 6 wks • Prev: 78

76

It's All In The Game

Four Tops

↑ 5

Peak: 24 • 13 wks • Prev: 81

77

Welfare Cadilac

Guy Drake

↑ 2

Peak: 63 • 14 wks • Prev: 79

78

Question

The Moody Blues

↑ 16

Peak: 21 • 12 wks • Prev: 94

79

Baby Hold On

The Grass Roots

★ NEW

Peak: 35 • 10 wks

80

(You've Got Me) Dangling On A String

Chairman Of The Board

↑ 6

Peak: 38 • 9 wks • Prev: 86

81

My Way

Brook Benton

↑ 3

Peak: 72 • 6 wks • Prev: 84

82

Fire & Rain

R.B. Greaves

↑ 1

Peak: 82 • 3 wks • Prev: 83

83

I Can't Leave Your Love Alone

Clarence Carter

↑ 2

Peak: 42 • 14 wks • Prev: 85

84

Lucifer

Bob Seger System

↑ 7

Peak: 84 • 6 wks • Prev: 91

85

Ride Captain Ride

Blues Image

★ NEW

Peak: 4 • 15 wks

86

Go Back

Crabby Appleton

★ NEW

Peak: 36 • 14 wks

87

Them Changes

Buddy Miles & The Freedom Express

—

Peak: 62 • 17 wks • Prev: 87

88

Get Down People

Fabulous Counts

↑ 1

Peak: 88 • 4 wks • Prev: 89

89

Darkness, Darkness

The Youngbloods

↑ 4

Peak: 86 • 4 wks • Prev: 93

90

Into The Mystic

Johnny Rivers

★ NEW

Peak: 51 • 8 wks

91

Baby I Love You

Little Milton

★ NEW

Peak: 82 • 3 wks

92

I Call My Baby Candy

The Jaggerz

★ NEW

Peak: 75 • 3 wks

93

Tobacco Road

Jamul

★ NEW

Peak: 93 • 2 wks

94

Patch Of Blue

Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons

★ NEW

Peak: 94 • 2 wks

95

If You Do Believe In Love

The Tee Set

★ NEW

Peak: 81 • 4 wks

96

Sweet Feeling

Candi Staton

★ NEW

Peak: 60 • 8 wks

97

Check Yourself

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

↑ 2

Peak: 97 • 2 wks • Prev: 99

98

Love Like A Man

Ten Years After

—

Peak: 98 • 2 wks • Prev: 98

99

She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)

Dee Dee Warwick

★ NEW

Peak: 70 • 8 wks

100

And My Heart Sang (Tra La La)

Brenda & The Tabulations

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 8 wks

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