1970
🔙 Backtrack — 1970
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
1970: a Spirograph out on the rug, a Fresca going flat, and just enough time to hang the drive-in speaker on the car window.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
Bridge Over Troubled WaterSimon & Garfunkel - 2
(They Long to Be) Close to YouThe Carpenters - 3
American WomanThe Guess Who - 4
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My HeadB.J. Thomas - 5
WarEdwin Starr - 6
Ain't No Mountain High EnoughDiana Ross - 7
I'll Be ThereJackson 5 - 9
Let It BeThe Beatles - 10
Band of GoldFreda Payne - 11
Mama Told Me (Not to Come)Three Dog Night - 12
Everything Is BeautifulRay Stevens - 13
Make It With YouBread - 14
Hitchin' a RideVanity Fare - 15
ABCThe Jackson 5 - 17
Cracklin' RosieNeil Diamond - 18
CandidaDawn & Tony Orlando & Dawn - 19
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)Sly & the Family Stone - 20
Spill the WineEric Burdon & War - 21
O-o-h ChildThe Five Stairsteps - 22
Spirit In the SkyNorman Greenbaum - 23
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins Singers - 24
Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)The Temptations - 25
Love On a Two-Way StreetThe Moments - 26
Which Way You Goin', Billy? (feat. Terry Jacks & Susan Jacks)The Poppy Family - 27
All Right NowFree
More from 1970
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🎚️ 1970 genres
🎚️ Related vibes
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What does 1970 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1970.
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🎵 1970 albums on vinyl
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📻 70s gear
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