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1 Events
2 Bands Formed
3 Bands disbanded
4 Albums released
5 Biggest hit singles
6 Top hits - US and UK singles
7 Published popular songs
8 Classical music
9 Opera
10 Musical theater
11 Musical films
12 Births
13 Deaths
14 Awards
- 14.1 Grammy Awards
- 14.2 Eurovision Song Contest

[edit] Events

Charles Wuorinen, aged 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. Former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.
January 7 - Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighbouring farmers.
January 14 - Diana Ross and the Supremes perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
January 16 - John Lennon's London Art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs"
January 24 - James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway
January 26 - Simon and Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year," "Song of the Year," and "Album of the Year." In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
January 28 - The newly formed group Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience "I'm sorry we just can't get it together".
February 11 - The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr premieres in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It," (which is written and produced by Paul McCartney), is also released on Apple Records.
February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
February 13 - Black Sabbath releases debut self-titled LP. It is Friday the 13th.
February 14 - The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England. The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City.
February 17 - Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London's Royal Albert Hall. She would be back performing concerts within a year.
February 23 - Ringo Starr appears on the television show Laugh-In
February 27 - Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
February 28 - Led Zeppelin performs in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, due to threats of lawsuits from Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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 Lies to help finance his defense.
March - Jim Morrison of The Doors is found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behaviour during a March 1, 1969 concert, and is sentenced to eight months of hard labour and a $500 fine.
March 20 - David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett.
March 21 – Dana wins Eurovision Song Contest – and later became a Euro MP.
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.
April 2 - The London Magistrate's Court hears arguments on John Lennon's indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
April 3 - Minneapolis nightclub the Depot opens, eventually renamed to First Avenue.
April 10 - Paul McCartney publicly announced the break-up of The Beatles, though John Lennon had left the previous year.
April 17 - Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon.
April 20 - Paul McCartney's first solo album, McCartney is released.
April 24 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Hoffman is not allowed into the White House and leaves with Slick.
May 15 - The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released in the United States.
May 16 - Randy Bachman leaves The Guess Who to start up Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
May 23-24 - Grateful Dead make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath, Free, and Jose Feliciano. Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry, whose debut single "In the Summertime" becomes the best-selling hit of the year.
June 13 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain. [1]
June 13 - The Stooges play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival.
July 26 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.
September 6 - During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans at his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States.
Isle of Wight Festival.
Jimmy Buffett begins recording.
Paul Davis begins recording.
Eric Clapton leaves Blind Faith for a solo career.
Dalida leaves Barclay Records for Orlando Records.
Derek Bailey and Evan Parker found Incus Records, specialising in releasing free improvised music and said to be the first independent artist-owned record label.
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is widely considered the first successful full-fledged fusion of rock and roll and jazz, as well as being one of the most famous and well-remembered albums by Davis.

[edit] Bands Formed

The Doobie Brothers, formerly Pud, forms with Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, John Hartman, Dave Shogren.
Electric Light Orchestra form as an offshoot project of rock band The Move with Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan.
Ocean formed.
Queen forms with its first three members Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor. Bassist John Deacon joins in 1971.
Styx formed.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer is formed, taking its name from its three founding members Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band is formed in 1971 with Manfred Mann

[edit] Bands disbanded

The Beatles break up. All four band members release solo albums.
The Dave Clark Five
The Monkees
Simon and Garfunkel break up, and both members of the duo go on to solo careers, although they have reunited and performed together numerous times since breaking up.
The Nice break up. Keith Emerson weingart founded ELP.

[edit] Albums released

12 Songs - Randy Newman
A Beard Of Stars - Tyrannosaurus Rex
A Song For Me - Family
ABC - Jackson 5
Abraxas - Santana
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
All Kinds of Everything - Dana
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
American Beauty - Grateful Dead
American Woman - The Guess Who
Anyway - Family
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World - Merle Haggard
Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
Benefit - Jethro Tull
The Best of the Wailers - The Wailers
The Big O - Roy Orbison
Bill Haley's Scrapbook: Live at the Bitter End - Bill Haley & His Comets
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Bullshit 3 1/4 - Danny Ben-Israel
Canto Libre - Víctor Jara
Changes - The Monkees
Chapter 2 - Roberta Flack
Chicago (sometimes referred to as Chicago II) - Chicago
Climbing! - Mountain
Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad
Close to You - Carpenters
Come To My Garden - Minnie Riperton
Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cucumber Castle - The Bee Gees
Deep Purple in Rock - Deep Purple
Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Die Flippers - Die Flippers
Down to Earth - Jimmy Buffett
Easy Action - Alice Cooper
Egg - Egg
Electronic Meditation - Tangerine Dream
Ella in Budapest, Hungary - Ella Fitzgerald
Elton John - Elton John
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (debut)
The End of an Ear - Robert Wyatt
Fire and Water - Free
Fun House - The Stooges
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow-Funkadelic
Funkadelic-Funkadelic
The Great Songs Of Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison
Hank Williams The Roy Orbison Way - Roy Orbison
His Band and the Street Choir - Van Morrison
if (aka If 1) - If
IF 2 - If
(I Live) One Day at a Time - Joan Baez
Ils ont changé ma chanson - Dalida
The Isaac Hayes Movement - Isaac Hayes
It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
Klopfzeichen - Kluster
Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominoes
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Legal - Gal Costa
Let It Be - The Beatles
Live Album - Grand Funk
Live at Leeds - The Who
Lizard - King Crimson
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
Looking On - The Move
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - Screaming Lord Sutch
McCartney - Paul McCartney
Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon - Status Quo
The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
Magic Christian Music - Badfinger
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Maria Bethânia Ao Vivo - Maria Bethânia
Master - Tremeloes
Moondance - Van Morrison
Morrison Hotel - The Doors
Mungo Jerry - Mungo Jerry
Naturally - Three Dog Night
No Dice - Badfinger
On Stage - Elvis Presley
Open Road - Donovan
Osmium-Parliament
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Pearl - Janis Joplin
Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas - Perry Como
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Yoko Ono
The Point! - Harry Nilsson
Portrait - Fifth Dimension
Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
Sex Machine - James Brown
Share the Land - The Guess Who
Shooting at the Moon - Kevin Ayers
Sit Down Old Friend - Dion DiMucci
Skid - Skid Row
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox - Gil Scott-Heron
Soul Rebels - The Wailers
Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin
Stranded - Edwards Hand
Sunflower - The Beach Boys
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Thank Christ for the Bomb - The Groundhogs
Things Ain't What They Used to Be - Ella Fitzgerald
This Girl's In Love With You - Aretha Franklin
Tide - Antonio Carlos Jobim
'Til The Band Comes In - Scott Walker
Time and a Word - Yes
Tin Tin - Tin Tin
Trespass - Genesis
Vintage Violence - John Cale
Watertown - Frank Sinatra
Wailing Wall - Wailing Wall
Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Frank Zappa
Well Now Dig This - The Jodimars
Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
Yeti - Amon Düül II

[edit] Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1970.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	The Beatles	Let it Be	1970	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	US BB 1 - Mar 1970, Canada 1 - Mar 1970, Holland 1 - Mar 1970, Switzerland 1 - Mar 1970, Norway 1 - Mar 1970, Australia 1 of 1970, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Sep 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Apr 1970, UK 2 - Mar 1970, Germany 2 - Apr 1970, DDD 3 of 1970, Italy 8 of 1970, US CashBox 9 of 1970, RYM 9 of 1970, France 10 - Mar 1970, Virgin 11, WXPN 12, Japan 14 of all time (international songs), Europe 15 of the 1970s, US BB 20 of 1970, Rolling Stone 20, POP 20 of 1970, OzNet 25, Poland 28 - Dec 2003, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1970, Scrobulate 34 of classic rock, Belgium 77 of all time, Germany 149 of the 1970s, TheQ 318, Acclaimed 342
2	Mungo Jerry	In the Summertime	1970	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	UK 1 - Jun 1970, Holland 1 - Jun 1970, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1970, Norway 1 - Jul 1970, Germany 1 - Jul 1970, Eire 1 - Jul 1970, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Feb 1971, Australia Goset 1 - Aug 1970, South Africa 2 of 1970, US BB 3 - Jul 1970, Canada 4 - Jul 1970, Italy 5 of 1970, France 7 - Aug 1970, Australia 16 of 1970, US BB 26 of 1970, POP 26 of 1970, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1970, US CashBox 35 of 1970, Germany 45 of the 1970s, DDD 47 of 1970, RYM 61 of 1970, Acclaimed 2195
3	Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970	Image:Flag of the United States.svg	UK 1 - Feb 1970, US BB 1 - Feb 1970, Canada 1 - Feb 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Mar 1970, Grammy in 1970, DDD 2 of 1970, Germany 4 - Apr 1970, US CashBox 5 of 1970, Holland 5 - Feb 1970, Switzerland 5 - Mar 1970, Australia 5 of 1970, Norway 7 - Apr 1970, US BB 9 of 1970, France 10 - Apr 1970, Europe 18 of the 1970s, RYM 19 of 1970, 28 in 2FM list, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1970, POP 41 of 1970, WXPN 41, Rolling Stone 47, Acclaimed 64, Scrobulate 66 of oldies, Belgium 162 of all time, Germany 239 of the 1970s
4	Shocking Blue	Venus	1970	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	US BB 1 - Dec 1969, Canada 1 - Dec 1969, France 1 - Apr 1970, Switzerland 1 - Oct 1969, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Aug 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Jan 1970, Norway 2 - Feb 1970, Germany 2 - Jan 1970, Holland 3 - Jul 1969, Italy 3 of 1970, US CashBox 6 of 1970, South Africa 7 of 1970, UK 8 - Jan 1970, Japan 15 of all time (international songs), POP 17 of 1970, Australia 19 of 1970, Europe 20 of the 1960s, US BB 21 of 1970, RYM 26 of 1969, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1969, DDD 34 of 1969, Germany 261 of the 1960s
5	Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love	1970	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	France 1 - Jan 1970, Germany 1 - Mar 1970, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Sep 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Feb 1970, TheQ 1, DDD 1 of 1969, Canada 2 - Dec 1969, US BB 4 - Dec 1969, Holland 4 - Dec 1969, Switzerland 5 - Mar 1970, RYM 8 of 1969, Australia 11 of 1970, Europe 11 of the 1960s, Scrobulate 11 of classic rock, US BB 38 of 1970, POP 38 of 1970, Belgium 48 of all time, US CashBox 54 of 1970, Poland 74 of all time, Rolling Stone 75, Acclaimed 85, Germany 120 of the 1970s, WXPN 400

[edit] Top hits - US and UK singles

"ABC" - The Jackson 5
"After Midnight" - Eric Clapton
"Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1)" - James Brown
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Diana Ross
"Airport Love Theme (Gwen & Vern)" - Vincent Bell & Orchestra
"All I Have To Do Is Dream" - Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
"All Kinds of Everything" – Dana
"All Right Now" - Free
"Always Something There to Remind Me" - R.B. Greaves
"American Woman" - The Guess Who
"Amos Moses" - Jerry Reed
"Are You Ready?" - Pacific Gas & Electric
"Arizona" - Mark Lindsay
"As the Years Go By" - Mashmakhan
"Baby Hold On" - The Grass Roots
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" - The Temptations
"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
"Be My Baby" - Andy Kim
"Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell
"Black Magic Woman" - Santana
"Black Night" - Deep Purple
"Blowing Away" - The Fifth Dimension
"Border Song (Holy Moses)" - Aretha Franklin
"Born to Wander" - Rare Earth
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Brontosaurus" - The Move
"Brother Rapp (Parts 1 & 2)" - James Brown
"Call Me" - Aretha Franklin
"Candida" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
"Cecilia" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Celebrate" - Three Dog Night
"Check Out Your Mind" - The Impressions
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" - Carpenters
"Closer to Home" - Grand Funk Railroad
"Come And Get It" - Badfinger
"Come Running" - Van Morrison
"Come Saturday Morning" - The Sandpipers
"Cracklin' Rosie" - Neil Diamond
"Cry Me A River" - Joe Cocker
"Cupid" - Johnny Nash
"Daughter of Darkness" - Tom Jones
"Deeper and Deeper" - Freda Payne
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" - The Delfonics
"Do It" - Neil Diamond
"Do the Funky Chicken" - Rufus Thomas
"Do What You Wanna Do" - Five Flights Up
"Do You See My Love (for You Growing)" - Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" - Chicago
"Domino" - Van Morrison
"Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" - Aretha Franklin
"Easy Come, Easy Go" - Bobby Sherman
"El Condor Pasa" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Eli's Coming" - Three Dog Night
"Engine Number 9" - Wilson Pickett
"Everybody's Got the Right to Love" - The Supremes
"Everybody's Out of Town" - B.J. Thomas
"Everything is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens
"Everything's Tuesday" - Chairmen of the Board
"Evil Ways" - Santana
"Express Yourself" - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
"Fire and Rain" - James Taylor
"For the Good Times" - Ray Price
"For the Love of Him" - Bobbi Martin
"Get Ready" - Rare Earth
"Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine (Part 1)" - James Brown
"Gimme Dat Ding" - The Pipkins
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" - Chairmen of the Board
"God, Love and Rock & Roll" - Teegarden & Van Winkle
"Gotta Hold on to This Feeling" - Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
"Green-Eyed Lady" - Sugarloaf
"The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)" - Fleetwood Mac
"Groovy Situation" - Gene Chandler
"Gypsy Woman" - Brian Hyland
"Hand Me Down World" - The Guess Who
"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" - Neil Diamond
"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" - The Hollies
"Heaven Help Us All" - Stevie Wonder
"Heed the Call" - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
"Hey Lawdy Mama" - Steppenwolf
"Hey There Lonely Girl" - Eddie Holman
"Hey, Mister Sun" - Bobby Sherman
"Hi-De-Ho" - Blood, Sweat & Tears
"Hitchin' a Ride" - Vanity Fare
"Holly Holy" - Neil Diamond
"Honey Come Back" - Glen Campbell
"House of the Rising Sun" - Frijid Pink
"I (Who Have Nothing)" - Tom Jones
"I Am Somebody (Part 2)" - Johnnie Taylor
"I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top" - The Hollies
"I Found That Girl" - The Jackson 5
"I Just Can't Help Believing" - B.J. Thomas
"I Really Don't Want to Know" - Elvis Presley
"I Think I Love You" - The Partridge Family
"I Want You Back" - The Jackson 5
"If I Were Your Woman" - Gladys Knight & The Pips
"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
"(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" - Ronnie Dyson
"I'll Be There" - The Jackson 5
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" - Dionne Warwick
"I'm Not My Brother's Keeper" - The Flaming Ember
"Immigrant Song" - Led Zeppelin
"In the Summertime" - Mungo Jerry
"Indiana Wants Me" - R. Dean Taylor
"Instant Karma (We All Shine On)" - John Ono Lennon
"It Don't Matter to Me" - Bread
"It's a New Day (Parts 1 & 2)" - James Brown
"It's a Shame" - The Spinners
"It's All In the Game" - Four Tops
"It's Impossible" - Perry Como
"It's Only Make Believe" - Glen Campbell
"I've Lost You" - Elvis Presley
"(I Know) I'm Losing You" - Rare Earth
"(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String" - Chairmen of the Board
"5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)" - The Presidents
"Jam Up and Jelly Tight" - Tommy Roe
"Jennifer Tomkins" - Street People
"Jingle Jangle" - The Archies
"Joanne" - Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
"Julie, Do Ya Love Me" - Bobby Sherman
"Kentucky Rain" - Elvis Presley
"Knock Three Times" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
"Lady d'Arbanville" - Cat Stevens (all other versions were dubbed)
"Lay A Little Lovin' On Me" - Robin McNamara
"Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" - Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" - Peter, Paul and Mary
"Let A Man Come in and Do the Popcorn (Part 2)" - James Brown
"Let It Be" - The Beatles
"Let's Work Together" - Canned Heat
"Little Green Bag" - George Baker Selection
"Lola" - The Kinks
"Lonely Days" - The Bee Gees
"Long and Winding Road" - The Beatles
"Long Lonesome Highway" - Michael Parks
"Long Long Time" - Linda Ronstadt
"Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" - The New Seekers
"Looking Out My Back Door" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Edison Lighthouse
"Love Land" - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
"Love on a Two Way Street" - The Moments
"Love or Let Me Be Lonely" - The Friends of Distinction
"Love the One You're With" - Stephen Stills
"Lucretia MacEvil" - Blood, Sweat & Tears
"Ma Belle Amie" - The Tee Set
"Make It Easy on Yourself" - Dionne Warwick
"Make it With You" - Bread
"Make Me Smile" - Chicago
"Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" - Three Dog Night
"Me And My Life" - Tremeloes
"Midnight Cowboy" - Ferrante & Teicher
"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain
"Mongoose" - Elephant's Memory
"Montego Bay" - Bobby Bloom
"Most of All" - B.J. Thomas
"Mr. Bojangles" - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
"My Baby Loves Lovin'" - White Plains
"My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" - Steam
"Neanderthal Man" - Hotlegs
"Never Had a Dream Come True" - Stevie Wonder
"No Matter What" - Badfinger
"No Time" - The Guess Who
"Ohio" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"One Less Bell to Answer" - The Fifth Dimension
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" - Neil Young
"Ooh Child" - The Five Stairsteps
"Our House" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"Out In the Country" - Three Dog Night
"Overture from Tommy (A Rock Opera)" - The Assembled Multitude
"Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
"Patches" - Clarence Carter
"Psychedelic Shack" - The Temptations
"Puppet Man" - The Fifth Dimension
"Question" - The Moody Blues
"Rainbow" - Marmalade
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - B.J. Thomas
"Rainy Night In Georgia" - Brook Benton
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" - Diana Ross
"Reflections of My Life" - Marmalade
"Remember Me" - Diana Ross
"Ride Captain Ride" - Blues Image
"Rubber Duckie" - Ernie (Jim Henson)
"Save the Country" - The Fifth Dimension
"See Me, Feel Me" - The Who
"Share the Land" - The Guess Who
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" - Joe Cocker
"Shiloh" - Neil Diamond
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" - Stevie Wonder
"Silver Bird" - Mark Lindsay
"Sly, Slick & The Wicked" - Lost Generation
"Snowbird" - Anne Murray
"Solitary Man" - Neil Diamond
"Somebody's Been Sleeping" - 100 Proof
"Someday We'll Be Together" - Diana Ross & the Supremes
"Somethings Burning" - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
"Son of a Preacher Man" - Aretha Franklin
"A Song of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)" - Miguel Rios
"Soolaimon (African Trilogy II)" - Neil Diamond
"Spill the Wine" - Eric Burdon and War
"Spirit in the Dark" - Aretha Franklin
"Spirit in the Sky" - Norman Greenbaum
"Stand By Your Man" - Candi Staton
"Steal Away" - Johnnie Taylor
"Still Water (Love)" - The Four Tops
"Stoned Love" - The Supremes
"Stoney End" - Barbra Streisand
"Stop the War Now" - Edwin Starr
"Sugar Sugar" - Wilson Pickett
"Summertime Blues" - The Who
"Super Bad (Parts 1 & 2)" - James Brown
"Take a Letter Maria" - R.B. Greaves
"Teach Your Children" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"Tell It All, Brother" - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
"Temma Harbour" - Mary Hopkin
"Temptation Eyes" - The Grass Roots
"Tennessee Bird Walk" - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" - Sly & The Family Stone
"That's Where I Went Wrong" - Poppy Family
"The Bells" - The Originals
"The Boxer" - Simon & Garfunkel
"The Letter" - Joe Cocker with Leon Russell
"The Long and Winding Road" - The Beatles
"The Love You Save" - The Jackson 5
"The Rapper" - The Jaggerz
"The Tears Of A Clown" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"The Thrill Is Gone" - B.B. King
"The Wonder of You" - Elvis Presley
"Tighter, Tighter" - Alive and Kicking
"Travelin' Band" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Turn Back the Hands of Time" - Tyrone Davis
"25 or 6 to 4" - Chicago
"Ugena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" - The Temptations
"United We Stand" - The Brotherhood of Man
"Up Around the Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Up on Cripple Creek" - The Band
"Up the Ladder to the Roof" - The Supremes
"Vehicle" - The Ides of March
"Venus" - Shocking Blue
"Viva Tirado (Part 1)" - El Chicano
"Walk A Mile in My Shoes" - Joe South & The Believers
"War" - Edwin Starr
"We Gotta Get You a Woman" - Runt (Todd Rundgren)
"Westbound #9" - The Flaming Ember
"We've Only Just Begun" - Carpenters
"What Is Truth?" - Johnny Cash
"When I'm Dead And Gone" - McGuinness Flint
"Which Way You Goin' Billy?" - Poppy Family
"Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
"Who'll Stop The Rain" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Who's Your Baby" - The Archies
"Without Love" - Tom Jones
"Wonderful World, Beautiful People" - Jimmy Cliff
"Woodstock" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"Yellow River" - Christie
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - Elvis Presley
"You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)" - Gladys Knight & The Pips

[edit] Published popular songs

"An American Trilogy" medley written & arranged by Mickey Newbury
"Bein' Green" w.m. Joe Raposo, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" w.m. John C. Fogerty
"I Love Trash" w.m. Jeff Moss, from the TV series Sesame Street
"If Not For You" w.m. Bob Dylan
"Kentucky Rain" w.m. Eddie Rabbitt & Dick Heard
"The Ladies Who Lunch" w.m. Stephen Sondheim. Introduced by Elaine Stritch in the musical Company.
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" w.m. John C. Fogerty
"People in Your Neighborhood" w.m. Jeff Moss, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Rubber Duckie" w.m. Jeff Moss, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Teach Your Children" w.m. Graham Nash
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
"Who'll Stop The Rain?" w.m. John C. Fogerty
"Where Do I Begin" (Love Story) - w. Carl Sigman, m. Francis Lai

[edit] Classical music

Sir Arthur Bliss - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
George Crumb
- Ancient Voices of Children for mezzo-soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players)
- Black Angels (Images I) for electric string quartet
Charles Dodge - Earth's Magnetic Field
Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and electronic sound
Luc Ferrari - Presque rien No. 1 "Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer"
Miloslav Kabeláč - Symphony No. 8 "Antiphonies"
György Ligeti - Continuum

[edit] Opera

Herman D. Koppel - Macbeth

[edit] Musical theater

1776, London production
Applause, Broadway production
The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) - Broadway revival
Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) - Vienna production
Company (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway production
Dames at Sea, Broadway revival
Golden Bat Off-Broadway production opened at the Sheridan Square Playhouse on July 21 and ran for 152 performances
The Great Waltz, London production
Joy, Broadway production
Last Days of Isaac, Broadway production
Look to the Lilies (Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn) - Broadway production
The Me Nobody Knows, Broadway production
Minnie's Boys, Broadway production
Ododo, Broadway production
Purlie, Broadway production
The Rothschilds, Broadway production
Touch, Broadway production
Two by Two, Broadway production