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(They Long To Be) Close To You
Carpenters

Last week
1Weeks at no. 1
4Weeks on chart
9Imprint/Promotion Label:
A&M
Billboard Hot 100
Week of August 15, 1970
This Week
Award
Last Week
Peak Pos.
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(They Long To Be) Close To You
Carpenters - 1
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A&M
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Make It With You
Bread - 2
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- 10
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Elektra
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
Stevie Wonder - 3
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Tamla
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Spill The Wine
Eric Burdon And War - 4
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MGM
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In The Summertime
Mungo Jerry - 12
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Janus
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War
Edwin Starr - 11
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Gordy
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Band Of Gold
Freda Payne - 5
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Invictus
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Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
Three Dog Night - 6
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Dunhill/ABC
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9
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Tighter, Tighter
Alive & Kicking - 7
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Roulette
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10
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Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)
The Temptations - 9
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Gordy
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O-o-h Child/Dear Prudence
The 5 Stairsteps - 10
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Buddah
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I Just Can't Help Believing
B.J. Thomas - 13
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Scepter
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Lay A Little Lovin' On Me
Robin McNamara - 17
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Steed
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(If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?
Ronnie Dyson - 16
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Columbia
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Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine (Part 1)
James Brown - 15
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King
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Patches
Clarence Carter - 23
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Atlantic
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17
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The Love You Save/I Found That Girl
Jackson 5 - 8
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Motown
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25 Or 6 To 4
Chicago - 27
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Songwriter(s):
R.Lamm, J.Pankow
Producer(s):
D.Foster
Imprint/Promotion Label:
Warner Bros.
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Overture From Tommy (A Rock Opera)
The Assembled Multitude - 25
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Atlantic
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Tell It All Brother
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - 22
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Reprise
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Ohio
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 14
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Atlantic
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Are You Ready?
Pacific Gas And Electric - 18
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Imprint/Promotion Label:
Columbia
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Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See The Light
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 56
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Fantasy
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Westbound #9
The Flaming Ember - 24
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Hot Wax
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Hi-De-Ho
Blood, Sweat & Tears - 41
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Columbia
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Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Diana Ross - 46
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Motown
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Summertime Blues
The Who - 28
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Decca
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Everybody's Got The Right To Love
The Supremes - 32
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Motown
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Hand Me Down World
The Guess Who - 35
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RCA Victor
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Big Yellow Taxi
The Neighborhood - 30
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Big Tree
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The Sly, Slick, And The Wicked
The Lost Generation - 31
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Brunswick
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32
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Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
Melanie With The Edwin Hawkins Singers - 20
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Buddah
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Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 21
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Atlantic
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34
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Solitary Man
Neil Diamond - 44
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Bang
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Do You See My Love (For You Growing)
Jr. Walker & The All Stars - 36
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Soul
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Groovy Situation
Gene Chandler - 40
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Mercury
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I Want To Take You Higher
Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes - 38
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Liberty
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38
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Julie, Do Ya Love Me
Bobby Sherman - 49
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Metromedia
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39
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Hitchin' A Ride
Vanity Fare - 19
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Page One
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Maybe
The Three Degrees - 29
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Roulette
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Wigwam
Bob Dylan - 42
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Columbia
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Snowbird
Anne Murray - 45
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