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| Number 15: Make It With You: Bread |
Elvis Presley registered his fifth week as the UK Number 1 record this week in 1970, but there were a couple of big upward movements just below him in the chart. Smokey Robinson's disc was close to taking over the top spot, while there were big moves from both Chicago and Three Dog Night. However, the big news of the week was the British Top 20 debuts of both Bread and Chairmen of the Board.
Image: The Sound of Bread
Taken from Bread's second album, On the Waters, the David Gates composition Make It With You climbed into the UK Top 20 following it topping the US Billboard chart the previous week. Eventually selling in excess of one million copies, the track would peak at Number 5 on this side of the water, at a time when the soft rock genre was becoming increasingly popular.
Like Bread, soul group the Chairmen of the Board was making its debut in the UK charts with its first single release. For General Johnson and co, the track was the Holland-Dozier-Holland written and produced Give Me Just A Little More Time that catapulted them into the Top 20 at Number 19 this week. The song had already sold a million in the US and by the time it had reached these shores, it was falling from its Number 3 peak. In the UK, it would eventually chart at the same position and become the first of eight Top 40 singles for the group.
- 01 (01) Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
- 02 (05) Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
- 03 (02) Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man
- 04 (03) Marmalade - Rainbow
- 05 (04) The Kinks - Lola
- 06 (08) Fair Weather - Natural Sinner
- 07 (14) Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
- 08 (06) Shirley Bassey - Something
- 09 (19) Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come
- 10 (07) The Jackson Five - The Love You Save
- 11 (15) Johnny Johnson And The Bandwagon - Sweet Inspiration
- 12 (13) Ten Years After - Love Like A Man
- 13 (10) Jimmy Ruffin - I'll Say Forever My Love
- 14 (12) Free - All Right Now
- 15 (22) Bread - Make It With You
- 16 (09) Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
- 17 (20) Hot Chocolate - Love Is Life
- 18 (16) Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
- 19 (34) Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time
- 20 (17) Cat Stevens - Lady D'Arbanville
Image: The Sound of Bread
Taken from Bread's second album, On the Waters, the David Gates composition Make It With You climbed into the UK Top 20 following it topping the US Billboard chart the previous week. Eventually selling in excess of one million copies, the track would peak at Number 5 on this side of the water, at a time when the soft rock genre was becoming increasingly popular.
Like Bread, soul group the Chairmen of the Board was making its debut in the UK charts with its first single release. For General Johnson and co, the track was the Holland-Dozier-Holland written and produced Give Me Just A Little More Time that catapulted them into the Top 20 at Number 19 this week. The song had already sold a million in the US and by the time it had reached these shores, it was falling from its Number 3 peak. In the UK, it would eventually chart at the same position and become the first of eight Top 40 singles for the group.
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