September 18, 1970

1	1	Sugarloaf--Green-Eyed Lady
2	2	Bobby Sherman--Julie, Do Ya Love Me
4	3	Neil Diamond--Cracklin' Rosie
6	4	Mashmakhan--As the Years Go By
8	5	Free--All Right Now
7	6	Edwin Starr--War
5	7	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Lookin' Out My Back Door
3	8	Temptations--Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
9	9	Diana Ross--Ain't No Mountain High Enough
15	10	Dawn-Candida
16	11	R. Dean Taylor--Indiana Wants Me
22	12	Kinks--Lola
10	13	Clarence Carter--Patches
11	14	Carpenters--(They Long to Be) Close to You
14	15	Freda Payne--Band of Gold
13	16	Michael Nesmith & the First National Band--Joanne
17	17	Poppy Family--That's Where I Went Wrong
12	18	Assembled Multitude--Overture From Tommy (A Rock Opera)
25	19	Christie--Yellow River
26	20	Carpenters--We've Only Just Begun
29	21	Three Dog Night--Out in the Country
18	22	Bread--Make it With You
20	23	Neil Diamond--Solitary Man
21	24	Guess Who--Hand Me Down World
34	25	New Seekers--Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma
38	26	Brian Hyland--Gypsy Woman
39	27	Glen Campbell--It's Only Make Believe
19	28	Hotlegs--Neanderthal Man
23	29	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Tell It All Brother
35	30	Jack Wild--Wait For Summer
28	31	Mark Lindsay--Silver Bird
46	32	Teegarden & Van Winkle--God, Love and Rock & Roll
31	33	Tom Jones--I (Who Have Nothing)
32	34	B.J. Thomas--I Just Can't Help Believing
50	35	Happy Day Singers--Have a Happy Day
30	36	Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
33	37	Eric Burdon & War--Spill the Wine
36	38	Chicago--25 or 6 to 4
45	39	Tommy Roe--We Can Make Music
27	40	5 Stairsteps--O-o-h Child
42	41	Five Flights Up--Do What You Wanna Do
44	42	James Taylor--Fire and Rain
43	43	Beach Boys--Tears in the Morning
47	44	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--Our House
---	45	Jackson Five--I'll Be There
---	46	Partridge Family--I Think I Love You
48	47	Aretha Franklin--Don't Play That Song
37	48	Gene Chandler--Groovy Situation
---	49	Bread--It Don't Matter to Me
---	50	Steel River--Ten Pound Note

Only four debuts again.  In Billboard, the Jackson Five’s “I’ll Be There” and the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You” were both number one hits, for five and three weeks respectively.  Here, the Partridge Family will be at number one for seven weeks, blocking out the Five, who will spend four weeks at number two.  (After their seven weeks at number one, the Partridges will spend four weeks at number two, followed by the Christmas week with no chart and then three weeks at number three, for 21 weeks on the survey all told.

“Ten Pound Note” by Toronto rock band Steel River was a big hit in Canada, but just number 109 in the US.  It’ll get to number 29 here.  And that leaves Bread’s “It Don’t Matter to Me” (10BB/14KJR).

Dialogue made up of the titles of this week’s debuts:

“I think I love you.”

“It don’t matter to me.”

“Five pound note…”

“I’ll be there!”