July 17, 1970

1	1	Carpenters--(They Long to Be) Close to You
4	2	Bread--Make it With You
3	3	Eric Burdon & War--Spill the Wine
2	4	Three Dog Night--Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
5	5	Mark Lindsay--Silver Bird
17	6	Mungo Jerry--In the Summertime
10	7	Freda Payne--Band of Gold
7	8	Simon & Garfunkel--Cecilia
13	9	Robin McNamara--Lay a Little Lovin' On Me
9	10	Beatles--The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue
15	11	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--Teach Your Children
6	12	Pipkins--Gimme Dat Ding
11	13	John Phillips--Mississippi
8	14	Vanity Fare--Hitchin' a Ride
23	15	Chicago--Make Me Smile
25	16	B.J. Thomas--I Just Can't Help Believing
14	17	Alive and Kicking--Tighter, Tighter
21	18	Archies--Sunshine
22	19	Jackson Five--The Love You Save
16	20	Blues Image--Ride Captain Ride
24	21	Rattles--The Witch
31	22	Neighborhood--Big Yellow Taxi
19	23	Bobby Sherman--Hey, Mister Sun
26	24	Mountain--Mississippi Queen
18	25	Elvis Presley--The Wonder of You
48	26	Clarence Carter--Patches
28	27	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Tell It All Brother
30	28	Moments--Love on a Two-Way Street
29	29	Tommy Roe--Pearl
37	30	Bert Sommer--We're All Playing in the Same Band
40	31	5 Stairsteps--O-o-h Child
35	32	Ronnie Dyson--(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
41	33	Miss Abrams & the Strawberry Point School Third Grade Class--Mill Valley
47	34	Jim Campbell--The Lights of Tucson
12	35	Tom Jones--Daughter of Darkness
38	36	Temptations--Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
20	37	Rare Earth--Get Ready
50	38	Anne Murray--Snowbird
27	39	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Run Through the Jungle/Up Around the Bend
42	40	Pacific Gas & Electric--Are You Ready?
34	41	5th Dimension--Save the Country
43	42	Engelbert Humperdinck--My Marie
44	43	Dionne Warwick--Paper Mache
33	44	Crabby Appleton--Go Back
45	45	Glen Campbell--Everything a Man Could Ever Need
---	46	Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers--Monster Mash
49	47	Shango--Some Things a Man's Gotta Do
---	48	Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
---	49	Bob Dylan--Wigwam
---	50	Guess Who--Hand Me Down World

It’s the second consecutive week with only four debuts, and the top five is the same records as last week with only a minor change in order—things are getting a little stagnant.

Bob Dylan’s “Wigwam” (41BB/45KJR) and the Guess Who’s “Hand Me Down World” (17/13) will perform pretty consistently with their national popularity.  Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” a number three Billboard hit, will stop at number 22, though it will manage to spend twelve weeks on the survey anyway.  “Monster Mash,” a number one BB hit in 1962, is a very strange case.  Here it is re-entering the survey in July, and it’ll get to number ten; in Billboard it’ll re-enter the Hot 100 in August and get to number 91.  Why did this eight-year-old record make a comeback, and why in the summer instead of at Halloween?  Not only that, but it happened again in 1973—it re-entered the Hot 100 in May, spent 20 weeks on the chart, and peaked at number ten.  It didn’t make the KJR survey then, which seems strange to me, since that was when I bought the 45.