Beyond Radio is the place where music discovery and music nostalgia collide. It is your one-stop source for playlists, music charts, remembrances and recommendations. Our Podcast and music therapy playlists combine elements of nostalgia and discovery, while my blog entries reflect on our musical past through the lens of my personal charts from decades past. I weave a story that includes the connection between artists, chart facts and personal anecdotes that hopefully conjure a connection to the soundtrack of your own life. The current charts and playlists are updated monthly or bi-monthly (bi-weekly for the BR250) and are curated based on a passionate audience that produce their own personal charts weekly.
I started out in January of this year with the intention to write a series of blogs connected to my personal charts of the past and felt 1970 was a perfect starting point, 50 years in the rearview. I was 9 at the time and I had not started doing a weekly chart (that didn't commence until 1974) so the first thing I needed to do was create a chart for January 1970 that reflected how I felt about the songs now. I have been doing this for every month of the year so now I can compile a year-end chart for the year. I had done a version of this in 2001, the last time I did an all-time list (I am due for an update in 2021). I only did a top 60 then based on my gut. On the following chart that original position is on the left and the current rankings are based on the charts from Dec. 1969 through Nov. 1970 that I created this year. 3 songs in the top 20 were not on my list in 2001 and 4 songs in the top 10 made substantial moves.
44 29 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Up Around The Bend
18 30 MELANIE Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
51 31 SMITH Take A Look Around
new 32 BOBBY SHERMAN Julie, Do Ya Love Me
20 33 EDISON LIGHTHOUSE Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
53 34 STEVIE WONDER Signed, Sealed, Delivered
23 35 TYRONE DAVIS Turn Back The Hands Of Time
32 36 JOE COCKER The Letter
19 37 NORMAN GREENBAUM Spirit In The Sky
24 38 THE JACKSON FIVE ABC
29 39 FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION Love Or Let Me Be Lonely
46 40 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Everybody Is A Star
49 41 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Woodstock
81 42 B.J. THOMAS I Just Can't Help Believing
62 43 WHITE PLAINS I've Got You On My Mind
31 44 JOHN LENNON Instant Karma (We All Shine On)
90 45 EDWIN STARR War
new 46 TONY ORLANDO & DAWN Candida
56 47 THE SUPREMES Up The Ladder To The Roof
71 48 THE JAGGERZ I Call My Baby Candy
25 49 THREE DOG NIGHT Celebrate
65 50 PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC Are You Ready?
82 51 BREAD Make It With You
new 52 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
64 53 JOHNNY RIVERS Into The Mystic
27 54 BADFINGER Come And Get It
42 55 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE I Want To Take You Higher
new 56 MUNGO JERRY In The Summertime
59 57 DIANA ROSS Reach Out And Touch (Sombody's Hand)
39 58 THE DOORS You Make Me Real
43 59 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Travelin Band
52 60 THE POPPY FAMILY Which Way You Goin' Billy?
79 61 TOM JONES Daughter Of Darkness
84 62 ELTON JOHN Grey Seal '70
40 63 RARE EARTH Get Ready
35 64 THE HOLLIES He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
61 65 STEVIE WONDER Never Had A Dream Come True
68 66 THE WHO Summertime Blues
86 67 THE KINKS Lola
new 68 TRAFFIC Empty Pages
72 69 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Cecilia
80 70 BOBBY SHERMAN Hey, Mister Sun
new 71 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Lookin' Out My Back Door
new 72 ELTON JOHN The King Must Die
45 73 THE JAGGERZ The Rapper
41 74 MARMALADE Reflections Of My Life
50 75 THE COWSILLS Love American Style
new 76 RARE EARTH (I Know) I'm Losing You
48 77 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD Give Me Just A Little More Time
96 78 MARK LINDSAY Silver Bird
58 79 WHITE PLAINS My Baby Loves Lovin'
new 80 THREE DOG NIGHT Out In The Country
103 81 VAN MORRISON Moondance
83 82 THE HOLLIES I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
54 83 THE TEMPTATIONS Psychedelic Shack
new 84 THE SPINNERS It's A Shame (The Way You Mess Around)
47 85 BOBBY SHERMAN Easy Come, Easy Go
60 86 CHICAGO Colour My World
107 87 THE PIPKINS Gimme Dat Ding
new 88 DAVE MASON Only You Know And I Know
106 89 NEIL YOUNG Cinnamon Girl
100 90 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Ohio
109 91 CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD ST. RHYTHM BAND Love Land
92 92 MOUNTAIN Mississippi Queen
55 93 KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION Something's Burning
new 94 NEIL DIAMOND Solitary Man
108 95 LINDA RONSTADT Long Long Time
63 96 ROLLING STONES Gimme Shelter
99 97 THE IMPRESSIONS Check Out Your Mind
66 98 MAMA CASS ELLIOT New World Coming
104 99 JONI MITCHELL Big Yellow Taxi
113 100 CROW Cottage Cheese
Tim’s Personal Chart, January 1970
1 ELTON JOHN Skyline Pigeon
2 MAMA CASS ELLIOT Make Your Own Kind Of Music
3 THE BEATLES Oh Darling
4 CHICAGO Questions 67 And 68
5 THE FIFTH DIMENSION Wedding Bell Blues
6 THE BEATLES Maxwell Silver Hammer
7 THE JACKSON FIVE I Want You Back
8 THE BEATLES Abbey Road Medley
9 ELTON JOHN Empty Sky
10 ARETHA FRANKLIN Eleanor Rigby
11 MARK LINDSAY Arizona
12 TOMMY ROE Jam Up And Jelly Tight
13 GLEN CAMPBELL Try A Little Kindness
14 ROLLING STONES You Can't Always Get What You Want
15 THE HOLLIES He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
16 R.B. GREAVES Take A Letter, Maria
17 THE KINKS Victoria
18 ELTON JOHN Western Ford Gateway
19 SMITH Baby It's You
20 BOBBY SHERMAN La, La, La (If I Had You)
21 THE GUESS WHO No Time
22 EDISON LIGHTHOUSE Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
23 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE I Want To Take You Higher
24 THE SHOCKING BLUE Venus
25 HELLO DOLLY Elegance
26 LED ZEPPELIN Whole Lotta Love
27 THE JAGGERZ The Rapper
28 MAMA CASS ELLIOT New World Coming
29 THREE DOG NIGHT Eli's Coming
30 THREE DOG NIGHT Celebrate
31 THELMA HOUSTON Save The Country
32 HELLO DOLLY Put On Your Sunday Clothes
33 ROLLING STONES Gimme Shelter
34 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bridge Over Troubled Waters
35 ELVIS PRESLEY Suspicious Minds
36 BILLY JOE ROYAL Cherry Hill Park
37 THE CARPENTERS Ticket To Ride
38 TOM JONES Without Love (There Would Be Nothing)
39 MARMALADE Reflections Of My Life
40 DIONNE WARWICK I'll Never Fall In Love Again
41 JOE COCKER She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
42 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Travelin Band
43 CHICAGO Beginnings
44 KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King
45 NEIL DIAMOND Holly Holy
46 THE BEATLES Come Together
47 HELLO DOLLY It Only Takes A Moment
48 PEGGY LEE Is That All There Is
49 BADFINGER Come And Get It
50 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son
51 BARBRA STREISAND Just Leave Everything To Me
52 THE TEMPTATIONS Psychedelic Shack
53 ELVIS PRESLEY Rubberneckin'
54 CUFF LINKS Tracy
55 PROCUL HARUM A Salty Dog
56 FERRANTE & TEICHER Midnight Cowboy
57 THE COWSILLS Silver Threads And Golden Needles
58 THE TEE SET Ma Belle Amie
59 DAVID BOWIE Space Oddity
60 THE BEATLES Here Comes The Sun
61 JOE SOUTH Walk A Mile In My Shoes
62 STEAM Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
63 ELTON JOHN Lady Samantha
64 JIMMY CLIFF Wonderful World, Beautiful People
65 THE BEATLES Something
66 KING CRIMSON Epitaph
67 BARBRA STREISAND Before The Parade Passes By
68 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES Someday We'll Be Together
69 THE BEATLES Octopus's Garden
70 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD Give Me Just A Little More Time
71 ELTON JOHN Lady What's Tomorrow
72 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf)
73 VANITY FARE Hitchin' A Ride
74 R.B. GREAVES Always Something There To Remind Me
75 LED ZEPPELIN Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)
76 BJ THOMAS Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
77 LED ZEPPELIN Ramble On
78 BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS And When I Die
79 THE COWSILLS Love American Style
80 CHICAGO I'm The Man
81 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Who'll Stop The Rain
82 CROW Evil Woman
83 BOBBI MARTIN For The Love Of Him
84 THE BEATLES I Want You (She's So Heavy)
85 GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS Friendship Train
86 BARBRA STREISAND & LOUIS ARMSTRONG Hello Dolly
87 DAVID BOWIE Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
88 MEL AND TIM Backfield in Motion
89 JAY AND THE AMERICANS Walkin' In The Rain
90 LED ZEPPELIN Thank You
91 THE BOX TOPS Turn On A Dream
92 B.B. KING The Thrill Is Gone
93 STEVIE WONDER Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
94 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Midnight Special
95 LOU CHRISTIE I'm Gonna Make You Mine
96 JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS These Eyes
97 LED ZEPPELIN What Is And What Should Never Be
98 THE RASCALS Hold On
99 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Down On The Corner
100 LED ZEPPELIN Heartbreaker
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