UK Music Chart: January 3, 1970

Number One: Rolf Harris

•  01 - Rolf Harris - TWO LITTLE BOYS 
•  02 - Kenny Rogers/First Edition - RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN 
•  03 - Archies - SUGAR SUGAR 
•  04 - Elvis Presley - SUSPICIOUS MINDS 
•  05 - Blue Mink - MELTING POT 
•  06 - Stevie Wonder - YESTER-ME YESTER-YOU YESTERDAY 
•  07 - Bobbie Gentry And Glen Campbell - ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM 
•  08 - Engelbert Humperdinck - WINTER WORLD OF LOVE 
•  09 - Cufflinks - TRACY 
•  10 - Tom Jones - WITHOUT LOVE 
•  11 - Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell - THE ONION SONG 
•  12 - Dave Clark Five - GOOD OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL 
•  13 - Roger Whittaker - DURHAM TOWN (THE LEAVIN') 
•  14 - Tremeloes - (CALL ME) NUMBER ONE 
•  15 - Malcolm Roberts - LOVE IS ALL 
•  16 - Harry J All-Stars - THE LIQUIDATOR 
•  17 - Jim Reeves - BUT YOU LOVE ME DADDY 
•  18 - Des O'Connor - LONELINESS 
•  19 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - GREEN RIVER 
•  20 - Karen Young - NOBODY'S CHILD

Image: By Zuzanna Neziri (Flickr: Rolf Harris) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

As you might expect, the music chart for the first week in January was something of a hangover from the Christmas season of 1969. No new chart was published because of Christmas and so the previous week's edition was used.

You might notice that much of the Top 20 has a very "middle of the road" flavour, with artists such as Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Roger Whittaker, Malcolm Roberts and Des O'Connor dominating proceedings. In fact, Rolf Harris was enjoying his third week at Number One with the very sugary Two Little Boys:

One of the few tracks that was eschewing the mum and dad feel of the charts was the penultimate Top 10 hit from the Dave Clark Five, although the title of the song might demonstrate otherwise: Good Old Rock'n'Roll:



Until next time...