This weekend marks the 40th Anniversary of the very first American Top 40 Countdown with Casey Kasem. July 4th 1970 was the official beginning to a new era in music and how people found out what the top songs and artist were, by listening every Sunday.
To celebrate this week AT40 the 70s is airing the very first American Top 40 countdown show.
10 - Hitchin' A Ride - Vanity Fare
9- The Wonder of You - Elvis Presley
8- The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles
7- (They Long to be) Close To You - The Carpenters
6- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Melanie
5- Band of Gold - Freda Payne
4- Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
3- Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
2- The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
1- Mama Told Me (Not To Come) - Three Dog Night
(first of 2 weeks at #1)
The #1 Album this week in 1970:
Let It Be - The Beatles 4th of 4 consecutive weeks at #1
What do you say about one of the best albums ever by the biggest group to every record music?
It was 1970 and the Beatles were just in name only, everyone was moving on, Paul McCartney had just been moved out of the top spot of the album chart by, of all groups, The Beatles.
Paul McCartney's album McCartney had been the top album in the US for 3 weeks in May until his other group came along and pushed him out.
Let It Be was already considered a classic with a movie about the making of the album and they had just had 2 #1 singles from the album with "Let it Be" and just 2 weeks earlier with "The Long and Winding Road" . This album was a Phil Spector produced release because of the dissolution of the group and the original album title Get Back was scrapped for Let It Be.
In 2003 Paul McCartney along with BMI and Apple records remastered and remixed the original master tapes of Let It Be and released Let It Be...Naked as a way of putting their version of the album out to the public.
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