March of 1970

A bit different this time... (For the proverbial "giggles & kicks")  

Cash Box Top 10 Songs- Week Ending March 7th, 1970
1 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Simon & Garfunkel (Columbia)
2 HEY THERE LONELY GIRL
Eddie Holman (ABC)
3 RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA
Brook Benton (Cotillion)
4 PSYCHEDELIC SHACK
Temptations (Gordy)
5 THANK YOU (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sly & Family Stone (Epic)
6 TRAVELIN BAND
Creedence Clearwater Revival
(Fantasy)
7 THE RAPPER
Jaggerz (Kama Sutra)
8 MA BELLE AMIE
Tee Set (Colossus)
9 NO TIME
Guess Who (RCA Victor)
10 VENUS
Shocking Blue (Colossus)

Simon & Garfunkle held the #1 album spot for the entire month with "Bridge Over Troubled Water"


March 4 – Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida.
March 6 – Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lie: The Love and Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
March 7 – Mountain, one of the many bands credited as having influence in the development of heavy metal music, releases Climbing!, their debut album.
March 11 – The 12th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Atlanta. Blood, Sweat & Tears' self-titled album wins Album of the Year, The 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" wins Record of the Year and Joe South's "Games People Play" wins Song of the Year. Crosby, Stills & Nash win Best New Artist..
March 19 – David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett.
March 26 – Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1969.


Albums released in March of 70 that I dig:  Psychedelic Shack- The Temptations, Climbing- Mountain, Déjà Vu- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Band of Gypsys- Jimi Hendrix, Easy Action- Alice Cooper, First Step- Faces. Ginger Baker's Air Force- Ginger Baker's Air Force, Bitches Brew- Miles Davis, It Ain't Easy- Three Dog Night, Bloodrock- Bloodrock, Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom- The Amboy Dukes, and On Tour with Eric Clapton- Delaney & Bonnie.

Laterz

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Interesting stuff, but I don't own any of the albums so I can't comment on them. I only know the hit songs.