7 of the 70s: 9/12/13 (1970)...

It's time for this week's 70s throwback, and this time out I've got seven more nuggets from 1970, the year there was an assassination attempt on King Hussein, leading to the "Black September" Civil War of that year. This week it's seven stormy (or otherly wet-like) songs from the year...

B.J. Thomas - "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"
from the album Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (1969)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
Songwriters: Burt Bacharach, Hal David

One of the best melodys written by Bacharach make one of those songs I really wish I could sing so I could sing this one.

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Brook Benton - "Rainy Night In Georgia"
from the album Brook Benton Today (1970)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4
Songwriter: Tony Joe White

This soulful track revived the 60's soul star's career with a reflective tone not unlike Redding's "Dock Of The Bay"..

Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)"
from the album Candles In The Rain (1970)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6
Songwriter: Melanie Safka

The singer/songwriter's breakthrough hit was inspired by her appearance at Woodstock as a complete unknown.

Joe Cocker - "Cry Me A River (live)"
from the album Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1970)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11
Songwriter: Arthur Hamilton

This jazz-pop standard had been covered by many, but none took it to where Cocker did, basically self-exorcizing himself with it.

Elvis Presley - "Kentucky Rain"
from the album Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol 1 (1970)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16
Songwriter: Dick Heard, Eddie Rabbitt

The man who eventually would "love a rainy night" first got props for writing this classic for the King.

Jay & The Americans - "Walkin' In The Rain"
from the album Wax Museum Volume 1 (1970)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19
Songwriters: Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil

The 60s pop group had their last top-40 hit with a remake of this Ronettes song that was Phil Spector's only Grammy-winner.

Mary Hopkin - "Temma Harbour"
from the album Those Were The Days (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #39
Songwriter: Philamore Lincoln

The young protege' that was one of the first artists on the Beatles' Apple Records label had a top-10 hit in the UK with this lilting number.

That's it for this trip to the 70s....I'll return later with 8 more from 1980...