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Song Artist(s) Reference January 9 "I Write the Songs" Barry Manilow January 16 January 23 "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon: January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 "Theme from S.W.A.T." Rhythm Heritage: February 27 March 5 "Dream Weaver" Gary Wright: March 12 March 19 "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" The Four Seasons: March 26 ...
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
Simon & Garfunkel had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Bridge Over Troubled Water" The Jackson 5 had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1970. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of the year 1970. [1] It covers from January 3 to November 28, 1970. [2]
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as B. J. Thomas , the Jackson 5 , Shocking Blue , the Guess Who , Ray Stevens , Three Dog Night , the Carpenters , Bread , Edwin Starr , Neil Diamond , the Partridge Family , and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles .
The resulting popularity led to their Saturday-morning half-hour sketch comedy series for CBS, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, which ran from 1974 to 1975. [1] They also released numerous hit singles during this time for producer Bernie Taupin , including "So You Are a Star" (1974), "Rendezvous" (1975), "Lonely School Year" (1975), and ...
The song first aired on American radio on February 12, 1971, but not all of the Coca-Cola bottlers were impressed. DJs reported that they were receiving requests to hear the commercial. Backer persuaded McCann-Erickson to film a commercial using the song. [3] The TV commercial, titled "Hilltop", was directed by Roberto Malenotti. [6]
Initially, WPLJ leaned towards 1970s hits, as well as mixing in liberal doses of disco, and did regular theme weekends featuring one-hit wonders and number-one songs, among others. Eventually, it also dedicated Monday-Saturday nights to playing nothing but 1970s music, hosted by former WKTU disc jockey Al Bandiero , a practice that continued ...