Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1970
The Top Songs from 1970

RankAll Time
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ArtistSingleSample
1 48 Derek and The Dominos
Layla
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2 69 Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
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3 141 James Brown
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
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4 183 Black Sabbath
Paranoid
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5 261 James Taylor
Fire and Rain
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6 271 John Lennon
Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

7 294 Elton John
Your Song
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8 298 Edwin Starr
War

9 314 Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
The Tears of a Clown

10 400 Toots and The Maytals
Pressure Drop
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11 403 The Beatles
Let It Be

12 418 Freda Payne
Band of Gold

13 428 The Velvet Underground
Sweet Jane
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14 444 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Who'll Stop the Rain
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15 455 The Kinks
Lola
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16 511 Free
All Right Now
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17 521 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Ohio

18 556 Loretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Daughter

19 637 George Harrison
My Sweet Lord
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20 654 Grateful Dead
Box of Rain
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21 656 Curtis Mayfield
Move On Up
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22 676 Black Sabbath
Iron Man
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23 733 The Velvet Underground
Rock and Roll
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24 734 John Lennon
God

25 745 Santana
Black Magic Woman

26 778 Van Morrison
Moondance
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27 835 Wings
Maybe I'm Amazed

28 864 The Carpenters
We've Only Just Begun
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29 866 Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
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30 916 Tim Buckley
Song to the Siren

31 1005 The Temptations
Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)

32 1016 Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
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33 1029 The Beatles
The Long and Winding Road

34 1106 John Lennon
Working Class Hero

35 1135 The Beatles
Across the Universe

36 1170 Grateful Dead
Uncle John's Band

37 1217 The Carpenters
(They Long to Be) Close to You
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38 1263 Santana
Oye Como Va

39 1270 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Up Around the Bend
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40 1320 Norman Greenbaum
Spirit in the Sky

41 1408 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
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42 1485 George Jones
A Good Year for the Roses

43 1520 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Helpless
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44 1527 Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind

45 1547 Neil Young
After the Goldrush
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46 1572 John Lennon
Mother

47 1725 Sammi Smith
Help Me Make It Through the Night

48 1745 The Delfonics
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

49 1769 Lynn Anderson
Rose Garden

50 1822 Led Zeppelin
Since I've Been Loving You
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51 1917 Aretha Franklin
Don't Play That Song
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52 1922 Curtis Mayfield
We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
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53 2011 The Jackson 5
The Love You Save
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54 2043 Jimmy Cliff
Vietnam

55 2082 The Guess Who
American Woman

56 2106 James Brown
Funky Drummer

57 2116 The Melodians
Rivers of Babylon

58 2119 Neil Young
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
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59 2121 Eric Burdon & War
Spill the Wine
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60 2127 Eric Clapton
After Midnight

61 2214 Led Zeppelin
Gallows Pole
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62 2230 The Jackson 5
I'll Be There

63 2249 Nick Drake
Hazey Jane II
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64 2283 Clarence Carter
Patches

65 2326 The Chairmen of the Board
Give Me Just a Little More Time

66 2380 Curtis Mayfield
(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go
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67 2408 Jimi Hendrix
Star Spangled Banner

68 2421 Mungo Jerry
In the Summertime

69 2525 Mick Jagger
Memo from Turner

70 2576 U-Roy
Wake the Town

71 2622 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Travelin' Band
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72 2675 Bob Marley and The Wailers
Duppy Conqueror
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73 2757 Brook Benton
Rainy Night in Georgia

74 2804 John Lennon
I Found Out

75 2855 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Run Through the Jungle
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76 2868 Joe South
Walk a Mile in My Shoes

77 2872 Stevie Wonder
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

78 2965 The Jackson 5
ABC
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Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Conway Twitty
Hello, Darlin'

Cat Stevens
Lady D'Arbanville

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lookin' Out My Back Door
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Van Morrison
Domino
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Wilson Pickett
Engine No. 9

The Five Stairsteps
Ooh-Ooh-Child

Van Morrison
And It Stoned Me
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
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Led Zeppelin
Immigrant Song
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The Soft Machine
Moon in June
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The Temptations
Psychedelic Shack

The Temptations
War

Gladys Knight and The Pips
If I Were Your Woman

Van Morrison
Caravan
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Freda Payne
Bring the Boys Home

Donny Hathaway
The Ghetto
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Woodstock
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Miles Davis
Miles runs the Voodoo Down
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Nick Drake
Northern Sky
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The Spinners
It's a Shame

Elton John
Take Me to the Pilot
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Neil Young
Southern Man
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T. Rex
Ride a White Swan

The Stooges
L.A. Blues
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Stephen Stills
Love the One You're With
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James Brown
Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing

Grateful Dead
Truckin'
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Kris Kristofferson
Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down
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Stevie Wonder
Heaven Help Us All

Edison Lighthouse
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Find the Cost of Freedom

Bread
Make It with You

Elvis Presley
Kentucky Rain

The Who
See Me, Feel Me



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