UK TOP 10 SINGLES CHART W/E January 31st 1970

Okay! I’ve decided early on in this project that doing the full top 20 singles charts for the whole of the seventies is probably going to take a little longer than my mortal lifespan will allow. So from this week forward I’m gonna stick to top ten charts instead.
Sorry about that.
This week we see the first ‘new’ number one single of the seventies. Shooting in from nowhere, Edison Lighthouse are the act to finally topple Rolf Harris from the top spot.
As mentioned last week, Edison Lighthouse were a studio band consisting of session musicians and fronted by vocalist Tony Burrows.
Although Edison Lighthouse turned out to be One Hit Wonders, Tony Burrows enjoyed more chart success as a vocalist with White Plains, The Pipkins, The First Class and Brotherhood Of Man.

Apart from Edison Lighthouse, there are three other new entries in this week’s top 10.
Arrival enjoy what will be their highest chart placing with their only Top 10 hit ‘Friends’.
Peter, Paul and Mary also enjoy their one and only UK top 10 visit with their biggest hit single (a cover of John Denver’s ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’) at this week’s number 9.
And finally, creeping in at number ten this week are folk rockers, Jethro Tull. Their Double-A Sided single furnishes them with their third and final visit to the UK top ten single’s chart.

This week the UK Top 10 Chart welcomes ‘Edison Lighthouse’ for the first and only time.

Liverpudlians ‘Arrival’ are also enjoying their first and only visit with ‘Friends’. By the mid seventies the band will have morphed into British pub rock legends ‘Kokomo’.

The other UK Top 10 Chart debutantes this week are New York folk trio, Peter Paul And Mary.
All three of this week’s Top 10 debutantes are enjoying their one and only visit to the UK top 10 single’s chart.

This week’s edition of Top Of The Pops was presented by Jimmy Saville and featured…
Same Old Story by Blodwyn Pig
Friends by Arrival
Sympathy by Rare Bird
I’m A Man by Chicago
Witches Promise by Jethro Tull
Temma Harbour by Mary Hopkin
Venus by Shocking Blue
Come And Get It by Badfinger
Let It All Hang Out by Jonathan King
United We Stand by The Brotherhood Of Man
Let’s Work Together by Canned Heat
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse

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.

On 30th January 1970, future Glam Rock King, Marc Bolan married Syd Barret’s former lover, June Child at Kensington Registry Office.

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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