UK Music Chart: January 17, 1970

Number 10 : Badfinger

• 01 (01) Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys 
• 02 (07) Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds 
• 03 (05) Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell - All I Have To Do Is Dream 
• 04 (02) Kenny Rogers/First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town 
• 05 (04) Cufflinks - Tracy 
• 06 (06) Archies - Sugar Sugar 
• 07 (03) Blue Mink - Melting Pot 
• 08 (08) Dave Clark Five - Good Old Rock 'n' Roll 
• 09 (16) Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life 
• 10 (33) Badfinger - Come And Get It 
• 11 (13) Tom Jones - Without Love 
• 12 (12) Roger Whittaker - Durham Town (The Leavin') 
• 13 (24) Diana Ross And The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together 
• 14 (09) Stevie Wonder - Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday 
• 15 (17) Jim Reeves - But You Love Me Daddy 
• 16 (14) Engelbert Humperdinck - Winter World Of Love 
• 17 (10) Harry J All-Stars - The Liquidator 
• 18 (45) Arrival - Friends 
• 19 (11) Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell - The Onion Song 
• 20 (22) Cliff Richard - With The Eyes Of A Child

*Previous week in brackets; Climbers denoted in red.
*Image: The Very Best Of Badfinger

Rolf Harris continues his reign at the top of the UK Singles Chart, while Elvis's classic song Suspicious Minds rebounds back to Number Two. Lower down the chart, however, four tracks make their debut. 

The highest new entry is Badfinger (No.10) with a song composed by Paul McCartney and given specifically to the band. It's included on the soundtrack of the film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and was the first of three Top 10 hits for the Welsh group:

Motown was showing well in this week's Top 20 and Diana Ross and the Supremes' final big UK hit was selling well enough to leap to Number 13. It was the last of the girls' twelve Number 1 singles in the US, but this was to be its peak position in the United Kingdom:

 

Taking a twenty-seven place jump to Number 18 is something of a lost song from the era. Arrival was a multi-member band that managed to secure one more hit record later in 1970. Friends has a sound that is very much a part of the times: peace, harmony and the hippie culture. Before it disbanded, Arrival went on to have a well received appearance on the third day of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. Here they are on Top of the Pops: 

 

Scraping in at Number 20 was Cliff Richard's final single release of the 1960s. Not one of his most popular songs, it wasn't included on an album at the time and this week's chart position was as high as it was able to manage. Here he is, singing With the Eyes of a Child in 1974 at the Palladium in London: 

Until next time...