These hit tracks from 1970 had to knock a tune from the top to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and every song involved is a banger.

A lot of 1970s music was just good old-fashioned fun, while some of it was disturbing beyond all measure. One 1970s classic rock song tackled a deeply upsetting subject. However, it spoke about a ...

Parton first introduced “Daddy Come and Get Me” on her 1969 LP The Fairest of Them All. In the early weeks of 1970, it climbed the charts to the No. 40 slot. Parton wrote the song with her aunt, ...

Everyone's talking about Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" and for good reason. Soulful and deeply moving, the song is making an epic comeback more than five decades after it first charted in the '70s ...

Tammy Wynette scored a No. 1 hit in 1970 reminiscent of her signature song from 1968, both lyrically and controversially.

The Last of Us aired a pivotal episode and caused Linda Ronstadt‘s hit 1970 song “Long, Long Time” to surge in streams on Spotify. Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) share a moment in ...

Paul Simon said inspiration struck while writing tracks for the duo's final album, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water.' ...

The song’s lyrics were written for a crush in 1946 and the music followed 20 years later. After “Merry Christmas Darling” was released by the Carpenters in November 1970, the love song topped ...

Maybe the 1970s had too many great songs, although some may have had too much respect. The decade certainly covered a wide range of genres. Right through from rock, glam or heavy or somewhere in ...

Once again, a buzzy TV show is to thank for introducing a new generation to a beloved music icon. After Linda Ronstadt's 1970 song "Long Long Time" was used during the Jan. 29 episode of HBO's "The ...