“1970 – 50th Anniversary” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
LIVE, FROM A HALF CENTURY IN THE PAST!
HIGHLIGHTS OF AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR – 1970!
Back in 1969 the review of the past ten years was phenomenally historic, so looking forward to the 1970s seemed like adventuring into some stranger land filled with unknown possibilities of furthering sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll – in the best sense.
That willful mind-bend, added to the ongoing tide of an ever evolving reality, created a high level of optimism due to the fact that the Counter-Culture was in full-force. While the ’60s built an incredible cultural framework – the ’70s continued the work and followed-through with vigor.
PREPARE TO BE AMAZED!
00individual tallied up the Top Happenings, Albums, Singles, Movies, and TV Shows of 1970 presenting the highlights of the World Class Creativity of all of those responsible for a very entertaining and mind-blowing year – 00individual knows this to be true – he was 19 and he was there.
MONTHLY HAPPENINGS of 1970:
January 3 – Ex-Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.
January 4 – The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffeur with his Bentley trying to escape a mob outside a pub. The death is later ruled an accident.
January 4 – Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
January 5 – The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 7 – Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers.
January 9 – Led Zeppelin performs at The Royal Albert Hall. John Bonham plays a fifteen minutes rendition of “Moby Dick”.
January 14 – Diana Ross & The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas
January 16 – John Lennon’s London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying “erotic lithographs”.
January 24 – James “Shep” Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway.
January 26 – Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year”, and “Album of the Year.” In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
January 27 – Miles Davis makes the final recordings for his experimental album Circle in the Round, featuring sitar and tabla.
January 28 – The newly formed Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience “I’m sorry we just can’t get it together”.
January 31 – Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
February 11 – The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, is premiered in New York City. The film’s soundtrack album, including Badfinger’s “Come and Get It” (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records.
February 13 – English band Black Sabbath release their self titled debut album in the U.K., credited as the first major album in the heavy metal genre.
February 14 – The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England. The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City.
February 17 – Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. She would be back performing concerts within a year.
February 17 – MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out “hippies” did it.
February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.
February 23 – Ringo Starr appears on the television show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
February 26 – Beatles release “Beatles Again” aka “Hey Jude” album
February 27 – Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
February 28 – Led Zeppelin perform in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, to avoid a threatened lawsuit by Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
March 4 – Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida.
March 6 – Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lie: The Love and Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
March 5 – “Airport” based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released
March 6 – A bomb constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey explodes, killing three members of the organization.
March 7 – Mountain, one of the many bands credited as having influence in the development of heavy metal music, releases Climbing!, their debut album.
March 11 – The 12th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Atlanta. Blood, Sweat & Tears’ self-titled album wins Album of the Year, The 5th Dimension’s “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” wins Record of the Year and Joe South’s “Games People Play” wins Song of the Year. Crosby, Stills & Nash win Best New Artist.
March 15 – West German pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka features 5½ hours’ daily live performances of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (to September 13).
March 17 – My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
March 18 – United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
March 19 – David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett.
March 21 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
March 21 – In Amsterdam, Dana wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song All Kinds of Everything. She is elected to the European Parliament some 29 years later.
March 26 – Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14-year-old girl in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1969.
March 30 – Miles Davis’s influential double album “Bitches Brew” released
March 31 – NASA’s Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
April 1 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
April 1 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
April 1 – American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.
April 2 – The London Magistrate’s Court hears arguments on John Lennon’s indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
April 10 – Paul McCartney publicly announces that he has left The Beatles in a press release, written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album and headlined in the Daily Mirror newspaper in the United Kingdom.
April 11 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon.
April 11 – Beatles’ “Let It Be” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
April 13 – Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.
April 14 – Michael Nesmith announces he has left The Monkees.
April 17 – Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon.
April 17 – Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
April 17 – Paul McCartney’s 1st solo album “McCartney” is released
April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
April 24 – Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon’s tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD. Slick is recognized (although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.
April 26 – “Company” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
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April 29 – The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large anti-war protests occur in the United States.
May 1 – Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000 people.
President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nationwide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
May 4 – Charles Wuorinen, 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
May 7 – “Long & Winding Road” becomes Beatles’ last American release
May 8 – The Beatles release their last album, “Let it Be”
May 8 – Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.
May 13 – Beatles movie “Let it Be” premieres
May 14 – In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing two and injuring twelve.
May 16 – Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who to start up Brave Belt.
May 16 – The Who release Live at Leeds which is their first live album. Since its initial reception, Live at Leeds has been cited by several music critics as the best live rock recording of all time.
May 18 – Beatles’ last released LP, “Let It Be”, released in US
May 20 – Beatles’ “Let it Be” movie premieres in UK
May 20 – The Beatles’ film Let It Be premières in London and Liverpool. None of the four band members are present at either screening.
May 23 – Grateful Dead’s 1st performance outside US (England)
May 24 – Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
May 23–24 – Grateful Dead make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath, Free, and José Feliciano. Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry, whose debut single “In the Summertime” becomes the best-selling hit of the year.
June 1 – “Everything Is Beautiful” by Ray Stevens hits #1
June 3 – The Kinks Ray Davies makes a 6000-mile round trip from New York to London and back- interrupting the band’s American tour- to re-record one word on their latest single “Lola”. In order to get any airplay in Great Britain he has to change the word “Coca-Cola” to a more subtle “cherry cola”.
June 6 – A D-Day celebration is held in Washington, D.C. on the 26th anniversary of the event.
June 7 – The Who play two shows of Tommy, at the New York Metropolitan Opera House.
June 7 – The Who’s “Tommy” is performed at NY’s Lincoln Center
June 9 – Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
June 11 – The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
June 12 – Rocker and blues singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
June 13 -“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain.
June 13 – The Stooges play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival, Midsummer Rock.
June 13 – “In The Summertime” by Mungo Jerry hits #1 in UK
June 13 – Beatles’ “Let It Be” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
June 13 – Beatles’ “Long & Winding Road” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
The WHO with Leon Russell, John Sebastian and Blues Image 06-14-70 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim – 00individual was there!
June 17 – Led Zeppelin begin their last European tour
June 20 – “Ray Stevens Show” debuts on NBC-TV
June 22 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
Jun 23 – Rocker and singer Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
June 28 – U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.
July 3 – 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
July 4 – Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
July 4 – American Top 40, a nationally syndicated radio program featuring a countdown of the Top 40 hits of the past week according to the Billboard Hot 100, premieres. Hosted by Casey Kasem, the show is a major success.
July 17 – The Guess Who perform at the White House for President Nixon and his guest The Prince of Wales. At Pat Nixon’s request, they do not play their breakthrough hit “American Woman” due to the song’s supposed anti-American lyrics.
July 25 – “(They Long to Be) Close to You” sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
July 26 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.
August 3 – Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance, on the Dick Cavett Show.
August 4 – Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
August 7 – Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
August 7 – Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
August 10 – Jim Morrison’s trial for “lewd and lascivious behavior” begins in Miami
August 17 – August 18 – The U.S. sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.
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August 25 – Elton John’s 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
August 26 – The Women’s Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
August 26–30 – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include The Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
August 27 – Jimi Hendrix creates his last studio recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York, an instrumental called “Slow Blues”
August 28 – “I’ll Be There” single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
August 29 – Rubén Salazar is shot and killed during a rally in East Los Angeles.
August 30 – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden.
September 3 – Bill Haley & His Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
September 4 – Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London and is granted political asylum
September 6 – Terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.
September 6 – During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans as a result of his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States.
September 7 – An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and future Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
September 9 – Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958, in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
September 10 – The Chevrolet Vega is introduced.
September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
September 13 – The first New York City Marathon begins.
September 15 – Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
September 17 – Jimi Hendrix makes his last appearance, with Eric Burdon & War jamming at Ronnie Scotts Club in London. Hendrix, aged 27, dies the following day from an alleged barbiturate overdose at his London hotel.
September 20 – Jim Morrison found guilty of “open profanity and indecent exposure” after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969
September 25 – Ringo Starr releases his album “Beaucoups of Blues”
September 26 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
September 28 – TV game show “Words & Music” debuts on NBC
September 29 – The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
October 1 – 63 arrested in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milan, Italy
October 2 – The Wichita State University football team’s “Gold” plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
October 4 – National Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded by PBS.
October 4 – Janis Joplin dies in her Landmark Motor Hotel room in Hollywood at age 27 from a heroin overdose. Joplin died exactly 16 days after Jimi Hendrix, both at 27 years of age.
October 5 – The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 21 – A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.
October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
October 26 – Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
October 26 – Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1 000 km/h, stands for nearly thirteen years.
October 30 – Jim Morrison of The Doors, found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behavior during a March 1, 1969, concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labor and a $500 fine – though remains free on a $50,000 bond pending appeal
November – The 1969–1970 recession ends.
November 3 – Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional mid-term elections; Ronald Reagan is re-elected as Governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected as Governor of Georgia.
November 4 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 4 – Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
November 9 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 9 – The blues rock studio double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the only album by Derek and the Dominos, is released, initially in the United States, the first presentation of the classic title track, “Layla”, by English guitarist Eric Clapton and American drummer Jim Gordon.
November 10 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
November 12 – After Yehudi Menuhin accepts honorary citizenship from Switzerland, he receives a letter from the United States State Department telling him that both he and his son will lose their US citizenship as a result.
November 14 – Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.
November 16 – Elton John records a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album
November 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
November 20 – The Kinks Ray Davies flies to a London studio for the second time in 1970 to re-record one word in a new Kinks single . This time, he has to change a line in “Apeman”- “The air pollution is a-foggin’ up my eyes” which sounds too much like “a-fuckin'”.
November 21 – Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 23 – George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord” single in the US
November 23 – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.
November 23 – The Electric Factory concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’ closes its doors.
November 27 – George Harrison releases his triple album set “All Things Must Pass”
December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 8 – John Lennon conducts a lengthy and intensely candid interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses his new solo album and the influence of primal therapy on its creation, as well as his personal traumas dating back to childhood. He also makes many revelations about his time in The Beatles, including his account of the group’s breakup.
December 12 – The Doors play their final concert with singer Jim Morrison at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. After the concert The Doors decide that they will not play live anymore due to Morrisons unpredictable live persona.
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December 21 – Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House – the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives
December 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) into law.
And on the last day of 1970:
December 31 – Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve The Beatles and they officially split up after 10 years.
BILLBOARD TOP 70 ALBUMS OF 1970
1970 was one of the Big Three years of highly prolific musical creativity and album releases: 1969, 1970, 1971 – by the world’s best bands, singers, musicians, and producers – accounting for the highest amount of Classic Rock records released per year. The Cult of Album Listening was in its glory.
Many of these albums were popular carry-overs still on the charts from 1969.
Absorb the greatness of these monumental classics of ’70!
(Underlined are 00 reviews and experiences from those times of hearing these for the very first time!)
1 Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
2 Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
3 Abbey Road – The Beatles
4 Déjà Vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5 Get Ready – Rare Earth
6 Easy Rider – Soundtrack
7 Joe Cocker! – Joe Cocker
8 Santana – Santana
9 Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears
10 Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
11 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
12 American Woman – The Guess Who
13 Grand Funk – Grand Funk Railroad
14 Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head – B.J. Thomas
15 Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago
16 Woodstock – Soundtrack
17 McCartney – Paul McCartney
18 Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas – Tom Jones
19 Engelbert Humperdinck – Engelbert Humperdinck
20 Green River – Creedence Clearwater Revival
21 Cosmo’s Factory – Creedence Clearwater Revival
22 Let It Be – The Beatles
23 It Ain’t Easy – Three Dog Night
24 Hot Buttered Soul – Isaac Hayes
25 To Our Children’s Children’s Children – The Moody Blues
26 The Band – The Band
27 I Want You Back – Jackson 5
28 Still Waters Run Deep – Four Tops
29 Live At Leeds – The Who
30 Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 – Blood, Sweat & Tears
31 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
32 Suitable For Framing – Three Dog Night
33 Here Comes Bobby – Bobby Sherman
34 Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
35 Hey Jude – The Beatles
36 Psychedelic Shack – The Temptations
37 Closing The Gap – Michael Parks
38 ABC – Jackson 5
39 Hello, I’m Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash
40 Ladies Of The Canyon – Joni Mitchell
41 This Girl’s In Love With You – Aretha Franklin
42 Benefit – Jethro Tull
43 Paint Your Wagon – Soundtrack
44 Tommy – The Who
45 Candles In The Rain – Melanie
46 Monster – Steppenwolf
47 Johnny Cash At San Quentin – Johnny Cash
48 Self Portrait – Bob Dylan
49 Closer To Home – Grand Funk Railroad
50 Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard
51 On Time – Grand Funk Railroad
52 Cricklewood Green – Ten Years After
53 I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick
54 Midnight Cowboy – Soundtrack
55 Frijid Pink – Frijid Pink
56 Was Captured Live At The Forum – Three Dog Night
57 Magic Christian Music – Badfinger
58 Workingman’s Dead – The Grateful Dead
59 Alone Together – Dave Mason
60 A Question of Balance – The Moody Blues
61 Hawkwind – Hawkwind
62 Humble Pie – Humble Pie
63 Sunflower – The Beach Boys
64 Barrel – Lee Michaels
65 Band of Gypsys – Jimi Hendrix
66 The Man Who Sold The World – David Bowie
67 His Band and the Street Choir – Van Morrison
68 Changes – The Monkees
69 Abraxas – Santana
70 Leon Russell – Leon Russell
TOP 70 SINGLES OF 1970
Check out these etched-in-stone classics – all in one year!
1 “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Simon & Garfunkel
2 “(They Long to Be) Close to You” The Carpenters
3 “American Woman” The Guess Who
4 “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” B.J. Thomas
5 “War” Edwin Starr
6 “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Diana Ross
7 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
8 “Get Ready” Rare Earth
9 “Let It Be” The Beatles
10 “Band of Gold” Freda Payne
11 “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” Three Dog Night
12 “Everything Is Beautiful” Ray Stevens
13 “Make It with You” Bread
14 “Hitchin’ a Ride” Vanity Fare
15 “ABC” The Jackson 5
16 “The Love You Save” The Jackson 5
17 “Cracklin’ Rosie” Neil Diamond
18 “Candida” Dawn
19 “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” Sly & the Family Stone
20 “Spill the Wine” Eric Burdon & War
21 “O-o-h Child” Five Stairsteps
22 “Spirit in the Sky” Norman Greenbaum
23 “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” Melanie
24 “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” The Temptations
25 “Love on a Two-Way Street” The Moments
26 “Which Way You Goin’ Billy?” The Poppy Family
27 “All Right Now” Free
28 “I Want You Back” The Jackson 5
29 “Julie, Do Ya Love Me” Bobby Sherman
30 “Green-Eyed Lady” Sugarloaf
31 “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” Stevie Wonder
32 “Ride Captain Ride” Blues Image
33 “Venus” Shocking Blue
34 “Instant Karma!” John Lennon
35 “Patches” Clarence Carter
36 “Lookin’ out My Back Door” Creedence Clearwater Revival
37 “Rainy Night in Georgia” Brook Benton
38 “Something’s Burning” Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
39 “Give Me Just a Little More Time” Chairmen of the Board
40 “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” Edison Lighthouse
41 “The Long and Winding Road” The Beatles
42 “Snowbird” Anne Murray
43 “Reflections of My Life” Marmalade
44 “Hey There Lonely Girl” Eddie Holman
45 “The Rapper” The Jaggerz
46 “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” The Hollies
47 “Tighter, Tighter” Alive N Kickin’
48 “Come and Get It” Badfinger
49 “Cecilia” Simon & Garfunkel
50 “Love Land” Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
51 “Turn Back the Hands of Time” Tyrone Davis
52 “Lola” The Kinks
53 “In the Summertime” Mungo Jerry
54 “Indiana Wants Me” R. Dean Taylor
55 “(I Know) I’m Losing You” Rare Earth
56 “Easy Come, Easy Go” Bobby Sherman
57 “Express Yourself” Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
58 “Still Water (Love)” The Four Tops
59 “Make Me Smile” Chicago
60 “The House of the Rising Sun” Frijid Pink
61 “25 or 6 to 4” Chicago
62 “My Baby Loves Lovin'” White Plains
63 “Love or Let Me Be Lonely” The Friends of Distinction
64 “United We Stand” The Brotherhood of Man
65 “We’ve Only Just Begun” The Carpenters
66 “Arizona” Mark Lindsay
67 “Fire and Rain” James Taylor
68 “Groovy Situation” Gene Chandler
69 “Evil Ways” Santana
70 “No Time” The Guess Who
TOP 25 MOVIES OF 1970
These are some of the classics that started genres that are industry standards today.
1. M*A*S*H – R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
2. Patton – GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
3. Woodstock – R | 184 min | Documentary, History, Music
4. Five Easy Pieces – R | 98 min | Drama
5. Little Big Man – PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
6. The Wild Child – G | 83 min | Drama
7. The Honeymoon Killers – R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
8. The Great White Hope – PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
9. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
10. Airport – G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
11. Brewster McCloud – R | 105 min | Comedy, Fantasy
12. This Man Must Die – GP | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
13. The Molly Maguires – M | 124 min | Drama, History
14. Two Mules for Sister Sara – GP | 116 min | Adventure, Romance, War
15. Colossus: The Forbin Project – M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
16. The Phantom Tollbooth – G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
17. The Ballad of Cable Hogue – R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
18. Catch-22 – R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
19. Tora! Tora! Tora! – G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
20. Beneath the Planet of the Apes – G | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
21. Where’s Poppa? – R | 82 min | Comedy
22. I Never Sang for My Father – GP | 92 min | Drama, Music
23. Love Story – PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
24. The Out of Towners – G | 101 min | Comedy
25. The Owl and the Pussycat – R | 95 min | Comedy
TOP 25 TV SHOWS OF 1970
1 Marcus Welby, M.D. ABC
2 The Flip Wilson Show NBC
3 Here’s Lucy CBS
4 Ironside NBC
5 Gunsmoke CBS
6 ABC Movie of the Week ABC
7 Hawaii Five-O CBS
8 Medical Center
9 Bonanza NBC
10 The F.B.I. ABC
11 The Mod Squad
12 Adam-12 NBC
13 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
The Wonderful World of Disney
15 Mayberry R.F.D. CBS
16 Hee Haw
17 Mannix
18 The Men from Shiloh NBC
19 My Three Sons CBS
20 The Doris Day Show
21 The Smith Family ABC
22 The Mary Tyler Moore Show CBS
23 NBC Saturday Movie NBC
24 The Dean Martin Show
25 The Carol Burnett Show CBS
Tied – The Partridge Family ABC
Cost of Living 1970
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.84%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.9%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 838
Average Cost of new house $23,450.00
Average Income per year $9,400.00
Average Monthly Rent $140.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 36 cents
Shaefer Pen $9.95
United States postage Stamp 6 cents
Sports Illustrated 15 cents
Mans Westclox Watch $18.00
AMC Gremlin $1,879.00
1 Carat Diamond Ring $299.00
Chrysler Newport $3,861.00
Apples 4Lbs 59 Cents
Dog Food 12 Cans $1.00
Head and Shoulder Shampoo 79 Cents
Car 8 Track Stereo Tape Player $38.99
Chair La-z-Boy Rocker Recliner $188.00
Mens Leather Shoes $6.99
Striped Ladies Flare Pants and Tunic $10.00
Back To College Typewriter $28.88
Barbie Doll $4.77
25″ Cinema Screen Color TV $739.95
Lava Lamp $19.95
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2021
00individual’s first post of each month in 2021 will highlight each month of 1971,
celebrating yet another magickal 50th year anniversary.
And for those who want to experience the 50th anniversaries of the build up
to the truly cosmic events of 1971:
1967 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December
1968 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December
1969 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December
1970 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December
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Sincere thanks to all the faithful Rockers and Individuals who spend time in their lives here –
it is deeply appreciated.
00individual sends positive New Year Vibes to all!
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“January 1971 Babe” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL
The Rascals – Peaceful World
“Miss Claus” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
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The Owl and the Pussycat November 3
“Halloween Devil Babe” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
“The Psychedelic Train Visits Helloween Town” copyright 2017 00individual TLL
“Retro-’50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Babe” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
“The Psychedelic Train Gets Customized By Aliens” copyright 2020 00individual TLL
“MerBabe” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
– The Wonderful World of Disney
“The Psychedelic Train Surfs the Clouds” copyright 2014 00individual TLL
“Independent Babe” Copyright 2020 00individual TLL
“Psychedelic Train Cruises the Depths of the Pacific Ocean” copyright 2017 00individual TLL
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