March 6, 1970

1	1	Simon & Garfunkel--Bridge Over Troubled Water
10	2	Frijid Pink--House of the Rising Sun
2	3	Street People--Jennifer Tomkins
3	4	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain
5	5	Bobby Sherman--Easy Come, Easy Go
4	6	Norman Greenbaum--Spirit in the Sky
7	7	Jaggerz--The Rapper
13	8	John Lennon--Instant Karma (We All Shine On)
8	9	Tee Set--Ma Belle Amie
12	10	Badfinger--Come and Get It
9	11	B.J. Thomas--Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
6	12	Johnny Nash--Cupid
23	13	Elvis Presley--Kentucky Rain
27	14	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Something's Burning
11	15	Eddie Holman--Hey There Lonely Girl
17	16	Michael Parks--Long Lonesome Highway
18	17	Chairmen of the Board--Give Me Just a Little More Time
22	18	Vic Dana--If I Never Knew Your Name
25	19	Three Dog Night--Celebrate
15	20	Shocking Blue--Venus
---	21	Beatles--Let it Be
31	22	Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell--All I Have to Do is Dream
16	23	Tommy Roe--Jam Up Jelly Tight
21	24	Glen Campbell--Honey Come Back
28	25	Mary Hopkin--Temma Harbour
14	26	Jackson Five--I Want You Back
32	27	Kinks--Victoria
30	28	Jackie DeShannon--Brighton Hill
19	29	Elvis Presley--Rubberneckin'/Don't Cry Daddy
43	30	Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan--Tennessee Bird Walk
44	31	Santana--Evil Ways
26	32	Dionne Warwick--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
34	33	Edison Lighthouse--Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
38	34	Owen B.--Mississippi Mama
41	35	Smith--Take a Look Around
20	36	Fleetwood Mac--Oh Well - Pt. 1
---	37	Spirit--1984
24	38	Joe South--Walk a Mile in My Shoes
39	39	Rick Nelson--Easy to Be Free
40	40	R.B. Greaves--Always Something There to Remind Me
47	41	Neil Diamond--Shilo
---	42	Charlie Rich--July 12, 1939
---	43	Junior Walker & the All-Stars--Gotta Hold On to This Feeling
29	44	Guess Who--No Time
35	45	Tom Jones--Without Love (There is Nothing)
50	46	Marmalade--Reflections of My Life
48	47	Johnny Cash--Rock Island Line
45	48	Sly & the Family Stone--Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody is a Star
---	49	Dennis Yost & the Classics IV--The Funniest Thing
---	50	Al Martino--Can't Help Falling in Love

“Let it Be” is the highest debut we’ve seen in a while.  It was number one for two weeks in Billboard, but here it’ll be number one for ten weeks, making it by that measure the biggest hit ever on the KJR Fab 50.

Spirit makes their third appearance on the Fab 50 with “1984,” a number 69 national hit that will spend four weeks on the survey but get no higher than its number 37 debut.  We’ll see them one more time, but after a gap of three years.

Charlie Rich’s “July 12, 1939” will inch up to number 41 next week and then drop off; in Billboard, it peaked at number 85 pop and 47 country.  “Gotta Hold On to This Feeling” by Junior Walker and the All-Stars will inch up to number 40 over the next two weeks and then drop off; in Billboard, it got to number 21 pop and number two soul.

Two songs with years in the titles debut the same week.  We had one in 1967 (“New York Mining Disaster 1941”), one in 1968 (“1941”), and we’ll have one more later this year.