[MPIPM 3/???] 1970 3rd Quarter Ranked

The "summer" quarter of 1970 brings FIVE (5) songs to the Quarterly Top Hits List that did not make Billboard's year-end top 100. Now, my setting hard quarterly boundaries may be a bit unfair, since quite a few songs split their chart time between quarters which keeps them off BOTH quarterly lists. But I had to draw the line SOMEWHERE.

Anyway, with the previously posted ground rules in mind, let's look at the 3rd quarter of 1970: Billboard's weeks ending July 4th through September 26th, 13 weeks total. As I did last time, I'm looking at somewhere between the top 20 and 30, wherever the biggest gap in the ranking points happens to be. For this quarter, that obvious gap was between numbers 28 and 29, so the top 28 it is! (NOTE: Within a tier, the songs are listed in no particular order.)

TERRIBLE TIER -- empty!

BAD TIER -- empty?!

( MEH TIER )

( DECENT TIER )

( GOOD TIER )

EXCELLENT TIER -- empty?!

Even if there were no real all-time bests this quarter, the summer of 1970 was a great time to be listening to the Top 40, overall. Cheers? Jeers? Disagreements? Put 'em down in the comments. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more about 1970.