Various Artists - A Year In Your Life: 1970 Vol. 1 (2001)

I saved a number of discs from the trash heap this past weekend and I'll spin a few I rescued from this series this week. It's a budget-priced nostalgia sampler, complete with 1970 trivia questions in the liner notes and a general recap of the year:

According to a now-defunct website, the A Year In Your Life series

provides a nostalgic trip down memory lane for Baby Boomers, Hippies and Generation X alike. An extensive 75 volume (and growing!) collection of music spanning the very best Rock, Pop and R&B hits from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, the series is a year by year and decade by decade anthology of the music that was the soundtrack to your life.

Currently, Discogs only lists 21 CDs so I'm unsure how many volumes were ever released; I have three.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart

Tracks: 10 tracks, 39 minutes. A brief, but solid compilation. Mostly cuts that were popular on the radio in the early '70s then became stuff you'd have heard on classic rock radio stations back in the '80s and '90s. Get Ready followed by Ball Of Confusion then The Rapper is a fantastic sequence and then the whole thing ends on a high note with The Five Stairsteps.

Artist	Song	Hot 100
The Guess Who	American Woman	1
Free	All Right Now	4
Edwin Starr	War	1
Frijid Pink	House Of The Rising Sun	7
Bobby Bloom	Montego Bay	8
Rare Earth	Get Ready	4
The Temptations	Ball Of Confusion	3
The Jaggerz	The Rapper	2
The Band	Up On Cripple Creek	25
The Five Stairsteps	O-o-h Child	8

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None

Previously revisited for the blog:

A Year In Your Life: 60s Vol. 1 (2001)