# Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1970

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1970/710876>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 25, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1970/710876 "2015-01-25T18:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1970/710876/21 "2015-01-28T01:53:23Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> It’s easy! “Which Way You Goin’, Billy” is easily the worst song on that or most any list.

“Hey, There, Lonely Girl” sounds like a man being strangled by his testicles.

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1970/710876/22 "2015-01-28T02:59:49Z")

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> [@MissSwitac](#):
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> These songs are the soundtrack of my childhood. It’s like picking your favorite kid. I JUST CAN’T!!

Agreed. And though I like the more serious fare of the 70’s, my choice was the feel good track from Melanie. If not that I would have chosen Edison Lighthouse.

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**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1970/710876/23 "2015-02-24T09:11:38Z")

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Lonely girl… great song…when he sang it on one of those PBS shows the crowd lost it…  
Ride Captain was my number two…great song…72 mystery shipsbaby!!!  
Karma…was close…the drumming… But the Five Stairstep… OOh Child will make a room of black people stop doing …talking… and just sing along… its everything the black liberation movement of theearly 70’s was about…hope… promise…and a pretty lady in a nice fro…

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