This week in 1970
1 Wand’rin Star Lee Marvin 2 Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon and Garfunkel 3 Let It Be The Beatles 4 I Want You Back The Jackson 5 5 That Same Old Feeling Pickettywitch 6 Can’t Help Falling In Love Andy Williams 7 Years May Come and Years May Go Herman’s Hermits 8 Don’t Cry Daddy Elvis Presley 9 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Steam 10 Instant Karma John Lennon and Yoko One with the Plastic Ono Band Though not a natural singer, actor Lee Marvin rejected the suggestion that he mime to another singer’s voice in’Paint Your Wagon’, the movie version of Lerner and Loewe’s stage musical from 1951. It was a wise decision: the film had a lukewarm reception but the soundtrack was a major hit and ‘Wand’rin Star’ a number one for Marvin in the UK and Ireland. After three weeks it was replaced at the top in the UK by Simon and Garfunkel’s seminal ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ but not before it had stopped the Beatles reaching number one with ‘Let It Be’, their final single before Paul McCartney’s announcement that he was leaving the band.