Albums Released during 1970

January

  • The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
  • Wings Upon Your Horns - Loretta Lynn
  • Encouraging Words - Billy Preston
  • Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! - Tony Bennett
  • Magic Christian Music - Badfinger
  • Back in the USA - MC5
  • A Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield
  • A Song for Me - Family
  • John Phillips (John, the Wolf King of L.A.) - John Phillips
  • Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
  • Chicago - Chicago (aka Chicago II)
  • American Woman - The Guess Who
  • Argent - Argent
  • Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits - Barbra Streisand
  • Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
  • On the Boards - Taste
  • One Day at a Time - Joan Baez
  • Sit Down Old Friend - Dion
  • This Girl's in Love with You - Aretha Franklin
  • The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette
  • Try a Little Kindness - Glen Campbell


February

  • Burnt Weeny Sandwich - The Mothers of Invention
  • Zabriskie Point Soundtrack - Various Artists
  • Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  • Moondance - Van Morrison
  • Andy Williams' Greatest Hits - Andy Williams
  • Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster
  • Black Gold - Nina Simone
  • Climbing! - Mountain
  • The Great Songs of Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison
  • The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other - Van der Graaf Generator
  • Leon Russell - Leon Russell
  • Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - Screaming Lord Sutch
  • Morrison Hotel - The Doors
  • Nilsson Sings Newman - Harry Nilsson
  • Ronnie Hawkins - Ronnie Hawkins
  • Shazam - The Move
  • Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
  • Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
  • 12 Songs - Randy Newman
  • Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band


March

  • Lie: The Love and Terror Cult - Charles Manson
  • Psychedelic Shack - The Temptations
  • Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
  • A Beard of Stars - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  • Hello Darlin - Conway Twitty
  • Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
  • Vintage Violence - John Cale
  • Sentimental Journey - Ringo Starr
  • Bloodrock - Bloodrock
  • Easy Action - Alice Cooper
  • Egg - Egg
  • First Step - Faces
  • Funkadelic - Funkadelic
  • The Isaac Hayes Movement - Isaac Hayes
  • John B. Sebastian - John B. Sebastian
  • Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell
  • Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom - Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes
  • On Tour with Eric Clapton - Delaney & Bonnie
  • Right On - Wilson Pickett
  • Silk Purse - Linda Ronstadt
  • Tom Rush - Tom Rush
  • Tonight I'm Singing Just for You - Country Joe McDonald
  • Watertown - Frank Sinatra


April

  • Remedies - Dr. John
  • Elton John - Elton John
  • Farewell - Diana Ross & The Supremes
  • Come To My Garden - Minnie Riperton
  • Brinsley Schwarz - Brinsley Schwarz
  • Cricklewood Green - Ten Years After
  • McCartney - Paul McCartney
  • Benefit - Jethro Tull
  • Live Iron - Butterfly
  • Right On - The Supremes
  • What Love Has...Joined Together - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  • Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
  • Burrito Deluxe - The Flying Burrito Brothers
  • Candles in the Rain - Melanie
  • CJ Fish - Country Joe and the Fish
  • Come Together - Ike & Tina Turner
  • Cucumber Castle - Bee Gees
  • Eric Burdon Declares "War" - Eric Burdon & War
  • Everybody's Out of Town - B.J. Thomas
  • Getting to This - Blodwyn Pig
  • The Grass Is Greener - Colosseum
  • I Looked Up - Incredible String Band
  • It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night
  • Live Cream - Cream
  • McLemore Avenue - Booker T. & the M.G.s
  • My Kind of Jazz - Ray Charles
  • Oh Happy Day - Glen Campbell
  • Open Blues - Image
  • Peacing it All Together - Lighthouse
  • Portrait - The 5th Dimension
  • Sit Down Young Stranger - Gordon Lightfoot
  • Tammy's Touch - Tammy Wynette


May

  • Poco - Poco
  • ABC - The Jackson 5
  • Let It Be - The Beatles
  • In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson
  • Live at Leeds - The Who
  • Diana Ross - Diana Ross
  • Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
  • Fireworks - José Feliciano
  • Ginger Baker's Air Force - Ginger Baker's Air Force
  • Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna
  • I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Peter Nero
  • Quatermass - Quatermass
  • Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - Andy Williams
  • Something for Everyone - Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Tom Paxton 6 - Tom Paxton
  • Will You Visit Me on Sunday? - George Jones
  • Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More - Various Artists
  • The World of Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash


June

  • In Rock - Deep Purple
  • Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest
  • Home - Procol Harum
  • Third - Soft Machine
  • Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
  • Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
  • Alone Together - Dave Mason
  • Are You Ready - Pacific Gas & Electric
  • Better Times Are Coming - Rhinoceros
  • Changes - The Monkees
  • Charley Pride's 10th Album - Charley Pride
  • Ecology - Rare Earth
  • Electronic Meditation - Tangerine Dream
  • Entrance - Edgar Winter
  • Fire and Water - Free
  • Fotheringay - Fotheringay
  • Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart
  • Hark! The Village Wait - Steeleye Span
  • Kristofferson - Kris Kristofferson
  • Loretta Lynn Writes 'Em & Sings 'Em - Loretta Lynn
  • Memphis - Petula Clark
  • Norwood - Glen Campbell
  • On Stage - Elvis Presley
  • Open Road - Donovan
  • Parachute - The Pretty Things
  • Runt Runt  - Todd Rundgren
  • Struttin' - The Meters
  • Them Changes - Buddy Miles
  • Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
  • Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble - Uriah Heep
  • Vehicle - Ides of March
  • We Made It Happen - Engelbert Humperdinck
  • You & Me - Jerry Butler


July

  • Cactus - Cactus
  • Supertramp - Supertramp
  • Time and a Word - Yes
  • Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Absolutely Live - The Doors
  • Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad
  • Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow - Funkadelic
  • Full House - Fairport Convention
  • Fun House - The Stooges
  • Humble Pie - Humble Pie
  • James Gang Rides Again - James Gang
  • John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
  • The Last Puff - Spooky Tooth
  • Mona Bone Jakon - Cat Stevens
  • Mungo Jerry - Mungo Jerry
  • Osmium - Parliament


August

  • Future Blues - Canned Heat
  • A Question of Balance - The Moody Blues
  • Signed, Sealed & Delivered - Stevie Wonder
  • Weasels Ripped My Flesh - The Mothers of Invention
  • Chapter Two - Roberta Flack
  • Stage Fright - The Band
  • Close to You - Carpenters
  • After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
  • Sunflower - The Beach Boys
  • Come Saturday Morning - The Sandpipers
  • Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
  • Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way - Roy Orbison
  • Hawkwind - Hawkwind
  • Just for Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Joe Cocker
  • Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon - Status Quo
  • Metamorphosis - Iron Butterfly
  • Mongrel - The Bob Seger System
  • The Rill Thing - Little Richard
  • Sex Machine - James Brown
  • Something - Shirley Bassey
  • Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin
  • Whales & Nightingales - Judy Collins


September

  • Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert - The Rolling Stones
  • 8 - The Jackson 5
  • (Untitled) - The Byrds
  • Kiln House - Fleetwood Mac
  • Paranoid - Black Sabbath
  • Performance - Various Artists
  • Idlewild South - The Allman Brothers Band
  • Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr
  • A Pocket Full of Miracles - The Miracles
  • Abraxas - Santana
  • Curtis - Curtis Mayfield
  • Death Walks Behind You - Atomic Rooster
  • Easy Does It - Al Kooper
  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Album - Glen Campbell
  • If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan
  • Johnny Winter And - Johnny Winter
  • Leftover Wine - Melanie
  • Loaded - The Velvet Underground
  • Mad Shadows - Mott the Hoople
  • The Magnificent 7 - The Supremes & The Four Tops
  • New Feelin' - Liza Minnelli
  • The Original Human Being - Blue Cheer
  • Share the Land - The Guess Who
  • Snowbird - Anne Murray


October

  • Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
  • Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
  • The Jackson 5 Christmas Album - The Jackson 5
  • New Morning - Bob Dylan
  • Chunga's Revenge - Frank Zappa
  • Trespass - Genesis
  • Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
  • The Andy Williams Show - Andy Williams
  • Bloodrock 2 - Bloodrock
  • The First Lady - Tammy Wynette
  • The First 10 Years - Joan Baez
  • The Johnny Cash Show - Johnny Cash
  • Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominoes
  • Lick My Decals Off, Baby - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
  • New Ways but Love Stays - The Supremes
  • The Partridge Family Album - The Partridge Family
  • Shooting at the Moon - Kevin Ayers
  • Skid - Skid Row
  • Tapestry - Don McLean
  • Tony Bennett's Something - Tony Bennett
  • U - Incredible String Band
  • UFO 1 - UFO
  • USA Union - John Mayall
  • Washington County - Arlo Guthrie
  • We Got to Live Together - Buddy Miles
  • Woodsmoke and Oranges - Paul Siebel
  • Wrong End of the Rainbow - Tom Rush


November

  • The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
  • No Dice - Badfinger
  • That's the Way It Is - Elvis Presley
  • Barrett - Syd Barrett
  • His Band and the Street Choir - Van Morrison
  • The J. Geils Band - The J. Geils Band
  • Stephen Stills - Steve Stills
  • Straight Life - Freddie Hubbard
  • Tap Root Manuscript - Neil Diamond
  • Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
  • Christmas and the Beads of Sweat - Laura Nyro
  • All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
  • Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
  • Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One - The Kinks
  • Play It Loud - Slade
  • Airconditioning - Curved Air
  • Almost in Love - Elvis Presley
  • American Beauty - Grateful Dead
  • Anyway - Family
  • Be a Brother - Big Brother and the Holding Company
  • Blows Against the Empire - Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship
  • Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
  • Confessions of the Mind - The Hollies
  • Cruel Sister - Pentangle
  • Despite It All - Brinsley Schwarz
  • Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
  • I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
  • Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
  • Live Album - Grand Funk Railroad
  • Medusa - Trapeze
  • Most of All - B.J. Thomas
  • Naturally - Three Dog Night
  • Number 5 - Steve Miller Band
  • Scott Joplin: Piano Rags - Joshua Rifkin
  • Starsailor - Tim Buckley
  • Steppenwolf 7 - Steppenwolf
  • ...To Be Continued - Isaac Hayes
  • Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit
  • 13 - The Doors
  • Warhorse - Warhorse


December

  • The End of an Ear - Robert Wyatt
  • Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
  • Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 - Ginger Baker's Air Force
  • John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band
  • Lizard King - Crimson
  • Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band
  • T. Rex - T. Rex
  • The Best of Top of the Pops '70 - Top of the Poppers
  • The Black-Man's Burdon - Eric Burdon and War
  • Daughter of Time - Colosseum
  • Desertshore - Nico
  • False Start - Love
  • From Me to You - Charley Pride
  • H to He, Who Am the Only One - Van der Graaf Generator
  • Highway - Free
  • Kingdom Come - Sir Lord Baltimore
  • Live - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • Looking On - The Move
  • Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East - Miles Davis
  • Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder
  • Soul Rebels - The Wailers
  • Watt - Ten Years After
  • What About Me - Quicksilver Messenger Service
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