My Favorite Albums of 1970

Music Anniversaries.   Don't you just love them?  Well if you are a list lover, like me, you do.  Below are an A-Z listing of my favorite albums released in 1970.  Lots of genres, and most likely, even in 2020, lots of albums that I still haven't heard.  All are studio or live, no greatest hits albums.

Al Green - Gets Next To You
Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark

Badfinger - No Dice

Band - Stage Fright
Beach Boys - Sunflower
Beatles - Let It Be

Black Sabbath - s/t
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bob Dylan - New Morning
Bobbie Gentry - Fancy
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Charlie Rich - Fabulous Charlie Rich
Charley Pride - 10th Album
Chicago - II
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Deep Purple - In Rock
Derek & The Dominos - Layla
Diana Ross - s/t
Dolly Parton - Fairest of Them All
Dolly Parton - Real Live Dolly
Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything
Doors - Morrison Hotel

Elton John - s/t

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Elvis Presley - On Stage
Elvis Presley - That's The Way It Is

Eric Clapton - s/t
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
Free - Fire and Water
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Guess Who - American Woman

Hot Tuna - s/t
Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night
Isaac Hayes - Isaac Hayes Movement
Jackson 5 - ABC
James Brown - Sex Machine
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Jesse Winchester - s/t
Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Concept Recording

Jethro Tull - Benefit
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Johnny Cash - Hello I'm Johnny Cash
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
John McLaughlin - Devotion
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Kinks - Lola
Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Lawrence Reynolds - Jesus Is A Soul Man
Led Zeppelin - III
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can
Leon Russell - s/t
Linda Martell - Color Me Country
Loretta Lynn - Writes 'Em and Sings 'Em
Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Moody Blues - Question of Balance
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Randy Newman - 12 Songs
Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley

Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya's Out
Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Through The Night
Santana - Abraxas
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Soft Machine - Third
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Stooges - Fun House
Tammy Wynette - Ways To Love A Man
Temptations  Psychedelic Shack
Tracy Nelson - Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country
Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time
Van Morrison - Moondance
Van Morrison - His Band & The Street Choir
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Who - Live at Leeds
Wilson Pickett - In Philadelphia
Woodstock - Various