Every UK no1 1971

 

Dave Edmunds
Clive Dunn
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-1970s-clive-dunn.html
George Harrison
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2017/06/in-memory-george-harrison-in-1970s.html
Mungo Jerry
T.Rex
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2010/11/70s-music-artist-watch-trex.html
Dave And Ansil Collins
Dawn
Middle Of The Road
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-1970s-middle-of-road.html
Diana Ross
Tams
Rod Stewart
Slade
Benny Hill
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2015/08/in-memory-benny-hill.html

Every UK No1 in 1971
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MORE FROM 1971
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Every UK No1 1970

Every UK No1 1970

Rolf Harris, Edison Lighthouse, Simon And Garfinkel, Christie, Mungo Jerry, England Football Squad, Dana and Norman Greenbaum. Crosby Sills Nash And Young
Lee Marvin (1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (1942 – September 18, 1970)
Elvis dead in 1977
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-1970s-elvis-presley.html
https://hits-of-the-70s-the-best-decade.blogspot.com/2010/09/artist-watch-jimi-hendrix.html

More No1s of the 70s
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Top Ten Best Selling Singles of 1970

Here are the offical UK charts for the best selling single of the year 1970.

Elvis was No. 1 with a song written in 1959 by Baker Knight and had been a hit several times by others in the 1960s

1	Elvis Presley	The Wonder Of You
2	Christie	Yellow River  video
3	Mungo Jerry	In The Summertime  video
4	Freda Payne	Band Of Gold
5	Shirley Bassey	Something
6	Lee Marvin	Wanderin' Star
7	Norman Greenbaum	Spirit In The Sky
8	Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water
9	England World Cup Squad	Back Home
10	Free	All Right Now

TOP UK 40 SINGLES OF 1970

Here we take a look at the END OF YEAR UK charts for 1970.

NO.40
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Peter Paul and Mary



NO. 39
Rainbow
Marmalade

Entered Chart: 18/06/1970
Highest Position: 3
Weeks in Chart: 14




NO.38
Lets Work Together
Canned Heat



NO.37
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Entered Chart: 29/08/1970
Highest Position: 4
Weeks in Chart: 18



NO.36
Up Around the Bend
Creedence Clearwater Revival

NO.35
I Want You Back
Jackson Five


NO.34
Good Bye Sam, Hello Samantha
Cliff Richard
Entered Chart: 06/06/1970
Highest Position: 6
Weeks in Chart: 15



NO.33
Mama Told me Not to Come
Three Dog Night
Entered Chart: 08/08/1970
Highest Position: 3
Weeks in Chart: 14



NO.32
Me and My Life
Tremeloes
Entered Chart: 12/09/1970
Highest Position: 4
Weeks in Chart: 18





NO.31
Give me Just a Little More Time
Chairmen of the board

NO.30
Voodoo Child
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

NO.29
I Hear You Knocking
Dave Edmunds

NO.28
Its All in the Game
Four Tops
Entered Chart: 30/05/1970
Highest Position: 5
Weeks in Chart: 16






NO.27
You Can Get it if You Really Want
Desmond Dekker
Entered Chart: 22/08/1970
Highest Position: 2
Weeks in Chart: 15



N0.26
Patches
Clarence Carter

NO.25
Two Little Boys
Rolf Harris

N0.24
Sally
Gerry Munroe

NO.23
Knock Knock Whos There?
Mary Hopkin
Entered Chart: 28/03/1970
Highest Position: 2
Weeks in Chart: 114



NO.22
Question
Moody Blues

NO.21
Honey Come Back
Glenn Campbell

NO.20
Cottonfields
Beach Boys

NO.19
Neanderthal Man
Hot Legs
Entered Chart: 04/07/1970
Highest Position: 2
Weeks in Chart: 14





NO.18
Black Night
Deep Purple

NO.17
Woodstock
Matthews Southern Comfort

NO.16
Something
Shirley Bassey
Entered Chart: 20/06/1970
Highest Position: 4
Weeks in Chart: 22



NO.15
Grovin With Mr Bloe
Mr Bloe
Entered Chart: 09/05/1970
Highest Position: 2
Weeks in Chart: 18



NO.14
Cant Help Falling in Love
Andy Williams

NO.13
Lola
Kinks

NO.12
All Kinds of Everything
Dana

NO.11
Love Grows Where my Rosemary Goes
Edison Lighthouse

NO.10
The Tears of a Clown
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

NO.9
Yellow River
Christie

NO.8
Wandrin Star
Lee Marvin




NO.7
All Right Now
Free

N0.6
Back Home
England World Cup Squad

N0.5
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel

NO.4
Spirit in the Sky
Norman Greenbaum

NO.3
Band of Gold
Freda Payne
Entered Chart: 05/09/1970
Highest Position: 1
Weeks in Chart: 19



NO.2
The Wonder of You

Elvis Presley

NO.1
In the Summertime
Mungo Jerry

In The 1970s Mungo Jerry

Ok now listen carefully Mungo Jerry is the name of the group-NOT the name of an individual.
Ray Dorest is the lead singer and probably the face of the group. Mungo Jerry came from his previous group called  Good Earth.

The very first single in 1970 went to No. 1 and was the classic In The Summertime  which was written by Ray himself. A song that took ten minutes to write and sold over thirty million singles worldwide.

Another No. 1 followed in 1971 with Baby Jump again written by Ray. Mungo Jerry recorded this at Pye, originally in a 16-track studio, but the band weren't happy with the sound and they re-recorded it at the 8-track studio where they had cut "In The Summertime."  

The single although a success was a bit of a shock, but the follow up was more of a pop song. Again this hit was in 1971 and called  Lady Rose a No. 5 UK hit. This was followed by a No. 13 hit You Don't Have To Be In A Army To Fight In The A War.

1972 Mungo Jerry had a top thirty hit with Open Up but the bigger hit was the No. 3 hit called Alright, Alright, Alright and was written by Jacques Dutronc, Jaques Lanzman and Joe Strange and was an adaptation of a French song called Et Moi, Et Moi.

The follow up was a small hit that year called Wild Love . The last single in the 1970s was Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black. Ray wrote a song for Elvis too. But Elvis died before it was recorded.