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THIRTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “ABC” by The Jackson 5 peaked at #1 on May 25 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending April 25 through week ending May 2. (Source: Billboard)

For the COMPLETE 21 Billboard Number One U.S.A. Hits 1970 go HERE

NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA * APRIL 25 -MAY 2, 1970

FINAL 1970 RECALL: HIGHLIGHTING THE NATION’S NUMBER ONE HITS!

— NUMBER ONE 1970 —

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NINETEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5 peaked at #1 on January 31 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week beginning January 25 through week ending January 31. (Source: Billboard)

For our previous Billboard Number One U.S.A. Hits 1970 go HERE

NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA * JANUARY 31, 1970

FINAL 1970 RECALL: HIGHLIGHTING THE NATION’S NUMBER ONE HITS!

— NUMBER ONE 1970 —

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THIRTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “The Love You Save” by The Jackson 5 peaked at #1 on June 27 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending June 27 through week ending July 11. (Source: Billboard)

For our previous Billboard Number One U.S.A. Hits 1970 go HERE

NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA * JUNE 27-JULY 11, 1970

FINAL 1970 RECALL: HIGHLIGHTING THE NATION’S NUMBER ONE HITS!

— NUMBER ONE 1970 —

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SIXTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “I’ll Be There” by The Jackson 5 peaked at #1 on October 17 (5 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending October 17 through November 14, 1970. (Source: Billboard)

For our previous Billboard Number One U.S.A. Hits 1970 go HERE

NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA * OCTOBER 17-NOVEMBER 14, 1970

HITSVILLE U.S.A.! THE JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM: 1970

‘JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM’

— ABOUT THIS LP —

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‘Jackson 5 Christmas Album’ is the first Christmas studio album (and fourth overall) by Motown family quintet the Jackson 5, released in October 1970. Included on the Christmas Album is the Jackson 5’s hit single version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”. The Jackson 5’s versions of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” remain frequent radio requests during the Christmas season. The album spent all four weeks at the number one position on Billboard magazine’s special Christmas Albums chart that the magazine published in December 1970, making it the best-selling Christmas album of that year, and, would repeat also in 1972.

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(Source: Wikipedia)

— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —

Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album.

JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM (COMPLETE LP) * 1970

MOTOWN MONDAYS! MOTOWN ON CBS’ ED SULLIVAN

THE MOTOWN SOUND

— The Ed Sullivan Show —

The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue hits the streaming platforms!

On June 12, came news Universal Music Enterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performances from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Since its premiere launch on June 12, several more videos have been added on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, still highlighting the Motown sound. As reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.

For more on this story, go HERE.

Ed Sullivan passed away on October 13, 1974. He was 73.

THE ED SULLIVAN MOTOWN CLASSICS!

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NEW! On this ‘Motown’ Monday we are featuring three classic Motown video performances from the Ed Sullivan Show:

The Jackson 5 (1969), The Temptations (1969), Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1968)

MORE Ed Sullivan Motown performances will be forthcoming on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

MOTOWN MONDAY! JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS LP: 1970

JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM (COMPLETE LP) * 1970

—JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM—

Jackson 5 Christmas Album is the first Christmas studio album (and fourth overall) by Motown family quintet the Jackson 5, released in October 1970. Included on the Christmas Album is the Jackson 5’s hit single version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”. The Jackson 5’s versions of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” remain frequent radio requests during the Christmas season. The album spent all four weeks at the number one position on Billboard magazine’s special Christmas Albums chart that the magazine published in December 1970, making it the best-selling Christmas album of that year, and, would repeat also in 1972.

(Source: Wikipedia)