My Lost On A Desert Island music collection would have 53 songs from 1970 on it, 8 by The Beatles, all from Let It Be. I’m pretty sure Let It Be ranks as my #2 Beatles album behind Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Original Beatles songs are not available as videos on YouTube so I cannot provide any links to such videos. I leave it to you to search out Beatles videos or simply put on your own music and start singing! Here are the 8 from 1970:
- Two Of Us
- Across The Universe
- Let It Be
- I’ve Got A Feeling
- One After 909
- The Long & Winding Road
- For You Blue
- Get Back
Following are the next 23 songs from 1970 that I would take with me if there were a possibility of being lost on a desert island. With the breakup of The Beatles, this was the year that I started exploring darker, heavier music, much to the chagrin of my wise old grandmother. She understood Let It Be and The Long & Winding Road. Not so much Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
25 Or 6 To 4 by Chicago
#4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Chicago’s first song to reach the Top 5
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
#1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Won the 1971 Grammy for “Record of the Year” and “Song of the Year”
Cecilia by Simon & Garfunkel
#4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
I always wanted to date a Cecilia so I could sing this to her.
Colour My World by Chicago
Released twice, both times as the B side to other singles
Make Me Smile in 1970 and Beginnings in 1971
The first non-classical song that I learned on the piano.
video
Easy Come, Easy Go by Bobby Sherman
#9 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
El Condor Pasa (If I Could) by Simon & Garfunkel
#18 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Ma Belle Amie by The Tee Set
#5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Until I went to YouTube for this blog post,
I had no idea that this was a “Gay Tune.”
Should I turn in my Gay Card?
The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel
#7 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Spirit In The Sky by Norman Greenbaum
#3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Forty years later I won a music trivia contest by being able
to name this song after just 3 notes.
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse
#5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Come & Get It by Badfinger
#7 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Written by Paul McCartney.
Shilo by Neil Diamond
#24 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
My aunt in Los Angeles introduced me to Neil Diamond in 1968.
Hitchin’ A Ride by Vanity Fare
#5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Add Some Music To Your Day by The Beach Boys
#64 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
One of my favorite songs about music.
Go Back by Crabby Appleton
#36 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Ride Captain Ride by Blues Image
#4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Gimme Dat Ding by The Pipkins
#9 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Black Knight by Deep Purple
#66 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Evil Woman by Black Sabbath
#19 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Wicked World by Black Sabbath
From their eponymous debut album
Lookin’ Out My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Who’ll Stop The Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#43 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
The single was 3:50; it’s this 11:11 album version that really turns me on.
