Don’s Top 10 For September 16, 1970

(#11 last week) Former #1 hit, momentarily back up. It heralded a change in music from loud to softer. And the duo were unfairly maligned for their sound, which I thought was musically very complex.

(#7 last week) It may unoffically fall, but summer is still on the radio, courtesy of this skiffle-laden ditty from the U.K. Insanely catchy. Doesn't the lead singer look like Sly Stone?

(#12 last week) No one, least of all Tony Orlando, expected to get a whole career out of Dawn. He had been doing studio work through most of the 60s, ever since his teen idol days of the early 60s had ended.

(#9 last week) If CCR were starting today, they'd be marketed as a country band. Top 40 radio & rock radio wouldn't touch 'em. For shame. How silly.

(#5 last week) Remake of a 1962 Ben E. King hit. The Queen Of Soul at once nostalgic & hip. Hit after hit after hit from 1964 through 1974.

(#8 last week) What a career change! Bobby's worked as an EMT in recent years. Way to go!

(#4 last week) I used to know every single word to this one. And sing along to it, too. Former local #1 hit. Last hit for Burdon, first for War. The twain shall meet! Gulp! Are those--hot pants--on that guy in War?

(#1 last week) The champ has been dethroned, as this slips to #3. Didn't think Marvin & Tammi's original could be topped, but Diana did it! What an uplifting classic.

(#2 last week) It took awhile, but the early 70s saw a flood of antiwar songs hit the airwaves, & this was just about the biggest. About as exciting an intro as you'll ever hear.

(#3 last week) Only peaked at #3 nationally. Jersey liked this one better. Carter was blind since birth. He's the same guy who made the extremely risque' party hit "Strokin", which (sadly) can't be played on the radio. :-)