Friday, February 19, 2016

December 11, 1970


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1
George Harrison--My Sweet Lord/Isn't it a Pity
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2
Partridge Family--I Think I Love You
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3
Neil Diamond--He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother
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4
Andy Kim--Be My Baby
8
5
Ray Price--For the Good Times
13
6
Bee Gees--Lonely Days
4
7
Badfinger--No Matter What
28
8
Dawn--Knock Three Times
5
9
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--The Tears of a Clown
7
10
Three Dog Night--One Man Band
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11
Jackson Five--I'll Be There
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12
5th Dimension--One Less Bell to Answer
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13
Shocking Blue--Never Marry a Railroad Man
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14
Santana--Black Magic Woman
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15
Supremes--Stoned Love
11
16
R. Dean Taylor--Indiana Wants Me
12
17
Fantasy--Stoned Cowboy
14
18
Brian Hyland--Gypsy Woman
15
19
Carpenters--We've Only Just Begun
23
20
Runt--We Gotta Get You a Woman
26
21
Eric Clapton--After Midnight
30
22
Presidents--5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)
32
23
Chicago--Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?
20
24
Bobby Bloom--Montego Bay
19
25
Elvis Presley--You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
31
26
Neil Diamond--Do It
34
27
Van Morrison--Domino
39
28
Michael Nesmith & the First National Band--Silver Moon
41
29
Joey Scarbury--Mixed Up Guy
24
30
Kinks--Lola
25
31
Who--See Me, Feel Me
43
32
Led Zeppelin--Immigrant Song
40
33
Perry Como--It's Impossible
27
34
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Heed the Call
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35
Barbra Streisand--Stoney End
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Dave Edmunds--I Hear You Knocking
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37
Carpenters--Merry Christmas Darling
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38
Jerry Reed--Amos Moses
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39
Tommy James--Church Street Soul Revival
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40
Bells--Fly Little White Dove Fly
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41
Stephen Stills--Love the One You're With
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42
Jackson Five--Santa Claus is Coming to Town
46
43
Gordon Lightfoot--If You Could Read My Mind
50
44
Lynn Anderson--Rose Garden
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45
Bobby Sherman--Goin' Home
37
46
James Taylor--Fire and Rain
49
47
B.J. Thomas--Most of All
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48
Buoys--Timothy
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49
Grass Roots--Temptation Eyes
38
50
Tom Jones--Can't Stop Loving You


Dawn (before Tony Orlando got billing) makes a big jump.

It’s been a long time since we’ve had eight debuts.  Three did not make the Billboard Hot 100 or Bubbling Under charts, because Christmas records were relegated to the separate Christmas Singles chart: obviously the Carpenters and Jackson Five songs, plus Bobby Sherman’s “Goin’ Home” was also a Christmas record, though it actually didn’t make the Christmas chart either.  (But his Christmas album made the Christmas Album chart.)  Here they will peak at number 18, number 38, and number 41 respectively.

Barbra Streisand’s “Stoney End,” a national number six hit, will stop at number 20 here, perhaps because Seattle loved Peggy Lipton’s version two years previously.  Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With,” number fourteen BB, will only get to number 27.  On the other hand, the Grass Roots, riding a streak of always doing better in Seattle than nationally, will get to number three with the number 15 Billboard hit “Temptation Eyes,” and Pennsylvania band the Buoys will spend 24 weeks on the survey, five of them at number one, with the number 17 national hit about cannibalism, “Timothy.”

That leaves Dave Edmunds and “I Hear You Knocking” as the only debut that will do about the same here as nationally (4BB/5KJR).

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