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Music History Events: Charts

March 7, 1970 Simon & Garfunkel's album Bridge Over Troubled Water hits #1. It stays there a total of 10 weeks, longer than any other LP in 1970.

February 14, 1970 Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" hits #1 in America.

January 3, 1970 B.J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" hits #1 in the US for the first of four weeks.

December 27, 1969 Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Someday, We'll Be Together" hits #1 in the US, the last of their 12 chart-toppers on that tally. It's the last release by the group with Diana Ross, who is the only member to perform on the track.

December 27, 1969 Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin II hits #1 on the American albums chart.

December 20, 1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving On A Jet Plane" hits #1, where it stays for one week.

November 29, 1969 The Beatles' "Come Together" hits #1 on the Hot 100.

November 8, 1969 "Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension hits #1 in America. The song was written and originally recorded by Laura Nyro.

October 18, 1969 The Temptations' "I Can't Get Next To You" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

October 4, 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival's LP Green River hits #1.

August 23, 1969 The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" hits #1 in America for the first of four weeks.

August 23, 1969 Johnny Cash's album Johnny Cash At San Quentin, the soundtrack to a documentary of the same name featuring Cash performing at the prison, hits #1 for the first of four weeks.

July 28, 1969 Eight days after the moon landing, "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival reaches its chart peak of #2. The song was inspired by a 1941 movie called The Devil And Daniel Webster, about a hurricane that blows through a town.

July 12, 1969 A week before the moon landing, "In The Year 2525" by Zager and Evans, a bleak sci-fi song where humankind gradually destroys itself, hits #1 in the US. It stays at #1 for six weeks.

July 9, 1969 John Lennon makes his solo debut on the UK charts with "Give Peace A Chance."

June 4, 1969 Tommy Roe's "Dizzy" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

May 24, 1969 The Beatles' "Get Back," featuring piano from Billy Preston, hits #1 in America.

April 12, 1969 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," from the musical Hair, hits #1 in America, where it stays on top for six weeks.

April 5, 1969 The Guess Who's "These Eyes" enters the Billboard singles chart.

March 29, 1969 Blood, Sweat & Tears' LP Blood Sweat & Tears hits #1.

March 15, 1969 Tommy Roe's "Dizzy" hits #1 in the US, where it stays for four weeks. It's a rare pop hit of the era with a string section.

March 8, 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" hits #2 on the Hot 100, where it stays for three weeks. It's the first of five CCR singles to reach the runner-up spot on the chart without ever hitting #1.

February 15, 1969 Sly & the Family Stone land their first #1 hit when "Everyday People" tops the Hot 100 for the first of four weeks. The song's message: we're all essentially the same, no matter what we look like. Of the seven members in the group, two are white and five are black.

February 1, 1969 Tommy James & the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

December 14, 1968 Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" hits #1 in the US, where it stays for seven weeks. The song was recorded by a few different Motown acts before a version by Gladys Knight & the Pips was finally released, reaching #2 in 1967. Gaye's version, released about a year later, became an even bigger hit and the definitive rendition.

November 30, 1968 "Love Child" by The Supremes hits #1 in America.

November 16, 1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience's LP Electric Ladyland hits #1.

October 12, 1968 Big Brother and the Holding Company's LP Cheap Thrills hits #1.

September 25, 1968 Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days," produced by Paul McCartney and released on The Beatles' Apple Records, goes to #1 in the UK, knocking off "Hey Jude." It stays for six weeks before being bumped by Joe Cocker's cover of the Beatles song "With A Little Help From My Friends."

September 21, 1968 Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley P.T.A." hits #1.