UK TOP 10 SINGLES CHART W/E February 14th 1970

There are two new entries in the top ten chart once again this week. Making way for this week’s two newcomers are Kenny Rogers and Arrival.
Kenny will be back once more during the seventies with his first of two UK number one singles. For Arrival though it’s a fond farewell as far as the UK top ten chart is concerned. They did however manage one more top twenty hit with their follow up single ‘I Will Survive’ which peaked at number sixteen in June 1970.
There’s no change at the top this week which means that Edison Lighthouse enjoy their third week at number one with their timeless pop classic ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes).’
American folk trio Peter Paul and Mary attain their highest ever UK chart position with ‘Leavin’ On A Jet Plane’ this week at number two.

There are two new entries in this week’s top 10.
Californian blues rock band Canned Heat enjoy their second and final visit to the UK top ten singles’ chart with ‘Let’s Work Together’ at number three.
This week’s other new entry at number ten comes courtesy of Dutch pop outfit Shocking Blue. One week earlier they made USA chart history with this, their only UK hit, when they became the first Dutch act ever to top the USA singles’ chart.

The only UK Top 10 Chart debutantes this week are Shocking Blue. Although the band were one hit wonders as far as the UK was concerned, they did enjoy considerably greater success in their home country. Mind you, the one hit that they did have here, ‘Venus’ was a massive worldwide smash. After notching up a million sales in the USA, it went on to attain global sales of over five million copies.

This week’s edition of Top Of The Pops aired on BBC 1 on February 12th and was presented by Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Savile and featured…
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by Bobbie Gentry
Let’s Work Together by Canned Heat
Years May Come, Years May Go by Herman’s Hermits
The Witches Promise by Jethro Tull
Instant Karma by The Plastic Ono Band
Both Sides Now by Judy Collins
Who Do You Love by Juicy Lucy
Something’s Burning by Kenny Rogers
Temma Harbour by Mary Hopkin
August October by Robin Gibb
My baby Loves Lovin’ by White Plains
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse
Pan’s People performed their weekly dance routine to ‘I Want You Back’ by The Jackson 5.

If anyone knows of any other musical UK TV appearances that occurred this week, please let us all know about them by leaving a comment below.

John Lennon became the first Beatle to appear in the Top of the Pops studio since 1966 this week.The Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Instant Karma’ had featured on last week’s show by means of a promo video, but this week John, Yoko and the whole band turned up for a studio performance. The BBC of course decided to erase this programme shortly afterwards, which is exactly what they did with all but one of the many appearances that The Beatles themselves made on the show in the sixties.

If anybody knows of any other interesting music events that took place this week in 1970, please let us all know about them by leaving a comment below.

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