Music and Films of 1970-71

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U.K Number One Singles

Date	Record	Artist	Weeks at No.1
1970
13 Jun	In the Summertime	Mungo Jerry	7
1 Aug	The Wonder of You	Elvis Presley	6
12 Sep	Tears of a Clown	Smokey Robinson and the Miracles	1
19 Sep	Band of Gold	Freda Payne	6
31 Oct	Woodstock	Matthews' Southern Comfort	3
21 Nov	Voodoo Chile	Jimi Hendrix Experience	1
28 Nov	I Hear You Knockin'	Dave Edmunds	6
1971
9 Jan	Grandad	Clive Dunn	3
30 Jan	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	5
6 Mar	Baby Jump	Mungo Jerry	2
20 Mar	Hot Love	T.Rex	4
1 May	Double Barrel	Dave and Ansil Collins	2
15 May	Knock Three Times	Dawn	5

Other big hits include:-

'Get Back' - the Beatles had their last week in the charts for 6 years ... and when they split up they did a 'Take That' cum 'Spice Girls' and had 4 times the hits ...

'Another Day' - Paul McCartney was his first post Beatles effort, likewise Ringo had 'It Don't Come Easy', Lennon 'Instant Karma' and ' Power to the People' (and see Harrison above).

'Back Home' - England World Cup Squad (the Summer 1970 No. 1 that was the Grandaddy of all those dreadful footballers records).

'All Right Now' and 'My Brother Jake'- Free.

'Lola' - Kinks.

'Brown Sugar' - Rolling Stones.

'Neandertal Man' - Hotlegs (whose members became 10 c.c.).

'Big Yellow Taxi '- Joni Mitchell.

'Black Night' and 'Strange Kind of Woman'- Deep Purple.

'It's Impossible' - Perry Como.

'Amazing Grace' -(the pre- bagpipes version by )Judy Collins.

'I'll be There' as well as 'The Love You Save' and 'Mama's Pearl'- Jackson Five.

'Ride a White Swan' - T.Rex (see above also).

'(They Long to be) Close to You' - (the original of the Alan Partridge classic by) The Carpenters.

Cliff Richard had four hits with 'Goodbye Sam Hello Samantha','I Ain't Got Time Anymore', 'Sunny Honey Girl',' Silvery Rain'.

Elvis Presley had six (!) with' The Wonder of You', 'Kentucky Rain', 'I've Lost You', 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me', 'There Goes My Everything', 'Rags to Riches'.

... and who can forget 'Bridget the Midget' by Ray Stevens ???

Meanwhile David Bowie (another hero of mine) DIDN'T have hits with 'Memory of a Free Festival Parts I and II', 'Holy,Holy / Black Country Rock' and 'Hang On to Yourself / Moonage Daydream', but Peter Noone did with Bowie's song ' Oh You Pretty Things'.

U.K.Number One Albums

Date	Album	Artist	Weeks at No.1
1970
18 Jul	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	5 *(see below)
22 Aug	Question of Balance	Moody Blues	3
12 Sep	Cosmo's Factory	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1
19 Sep	Get You Ya-Yas Out	Rolling Stones	2
3 Oct	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	1
10 Oct	Paranoid	Black Sabbath	1
17 Oct	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	1
24 Oct	Atom Heart Mother	Pink Floyd	1
31 Oct	Motown Chartbusters Vol.4	Various	1
7 Nov	Led Zeppelin 3	Led Zeppelin	3
28 Nov	New Morning	Bob Dylan	1
5 Dec	Greatest Hits	Andy Williams	1
12 Dec	Led Zeppelin 3	Led Zeppelin	1
19 Dec	Greatest Hits	Andy Williams	4
1971
16 Jan	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	11**(see below)
3 Apr	Home Loving Man	Andy Williams	2
17 Apr	Motown Chartbusters Vol.5	Various	3
8 May	Sticky Fingers	Rolling Stones	4

* The record had been no.1 for 17 weeks previously and was also no. 1 for a further 6 weeks after this table.

** This includes 8 weeks in which there was no chart due to a postal strike.

Films

Date	Film	Director	Weeks at No.1
1970
24 Jul	Cromwell	Ken Hughes	8
18 Sep	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	2
25 Sep	Kelly's Heroes	Brian G. Hutton	1
02 Oct	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	1
09 Oct	Cromwell	Ken Hughes	1
16 Oct	Tora ! Tora ! Tora !	Richard Fleischer Toshio Masuda Kinji Fokasaku	3
06 Nov	Waterloo	Sergei Bondarchuk	5
11 Dec	Scrooge	Ronald Neame	6
1971
22 Jan	Murphy's War	Peter Yates	1
29 Jan	Song of Norway	Andrew L. Stone	5
05 Mar	The Music Lovers	Ken Russell	1
12 Mar	Death in Venice	Luchino Visconti	1
19 Mar	Love Story	Arthur Hiller	13

Bob Dunning

9 October 2001

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