July 31, 1970

1	1	Carpenters--(They Long to Be) Close to You
3	2	Freda Payne--Band of Gold
4	3	Mark Lindsay--Silver Bird
14	4	Clarence Carter--Patches
5	5	Mungo Jerry--In the Summertime
2	6	Bread--Make it With You
6	7	Three Dog Night--Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
10	8	B.J. Thomas--I Just Can't Help Believing
8	9	Eric Burdon & War--Spill the Wine
34	10	Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers--Monster Mash
12	11	Neighborhood--Big Yellow Taxi
13	12	Rattles--The Witch
15	13	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Tell It All Brother
23	14	5 Stairsteps--O-o-h Child
7	15	Simon & Garfunkel--Cecilia
9	16	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--Teach Your Children
11	17	Robin McNamara--Lay a Little Lovin' On Me
25	18	Bert Sommer--We're All Playing in the Same Band
27	19	Jim Campbell--The Lights of Tucson
26	20	Ronnie Dyson--(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
41	21	Bobby Sherman--Julie, Do Ya Love Me
16	22	Beatles--The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue
33	23	Anne Murray--Snowbird
31	24	Miss Abrams & the Strawberry Point School Third Grade Class--Mill Valley
47	25	Sugarloaf--Green-Eyed Lady
18	26	Vanity Fare--Hitchin' a Ride
22	27	Blues Image--Ride Captain Ride
32	28	Temptations--Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
17	29	Pipkins--Gimme Dat Ding
20	30	Alive and Kicking--Tighter, Tighter
21	31	John Phillips--Mississippi
---	32	Ernie (Jim Henson)--Rubber Duckie
44	33	Elvis Presley--The Next Step is Love
39	34	Dionne Warwick--Paper Mache
40	35	Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
---	36	Fragile Lime--I'm Gonna Get You
35	37	Tom Jones--Daughter of Darkness
28	38	Elvis Presley--The Wonder of You
19	39	Jackson Five--The Love You Save
---	40	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light
---	41	Neil Diamond--Solitary Man
46	42	Shango--Some Things a Man's Gotta Do
30	43	Mountain--Mississippi Queen
---	44	Michael Nesmith & the First National Band--Joanne
48	45	Bob Dylan--Wigwam
49	46	Guess Who--Hand Me Down World
43	47	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Run Through the Jungle/Up Around the Bend
---	48	Gene Chandler--Groovy Situation
50	49	Spirit of Us--Simple Song of Freedom
---	50	Marmalade--Rainbow

“Monster Mash” roars up the survey.

One non-Billboard debut.  Fragile Lime was a Seattle band, and their “I’m Gonna Get You” is a very 1970-sounding, harmonies-and-horns rock record which will get to number 28.

We saw Neil Diamond’s “Solitary Man” here once before, in 1966, when it peaked at number 55 nationally and number 20 in Seattle.  Now we have its re-release (by his old record label, Bang—at this point he had been on Uni since ’68), which will get to number 21 and 10.  We haven’t seen Gene Chandler since 1964; “Groovy Situation,” a number twelve BB hit, will only get to number 34, though it will spend ten weeks on the survey.  The Marmalade’s follow-up to “Reflections of My Life,” the low-key, folkie “Rainbow,” number 51 in Billboard, will make it to number 27.