** = funk/soul/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else

My top 13 of favorite songs of the year 1970 (out of 26 listed here):

1. Miles Davis – Pharao’s dance **
2. Simon & Garfunkel – El condor pasa (If I could)
3. Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
4. Van Morrison – Moondance **
5. Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge of troubled water
6. Santana – Jingo (Jin-go-lo-ba) **
7. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
8. Melodie En Soul Sol – Black night **
9. Sixto Rodriguez – Sugar man **
10. Roy Ayers – Pretty brown skin **
11. Derek & The Dominos – Layla
12. Johnny Harris – Stepping stones **
13. Buddy Miles – Down by the river **

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• The Allman Brothers – In memory of Elizabeth Reed
• Manzanita Y Su Conjunto – El hueleguiso **
• El Chicano – Viva tirado **
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky man
• The Ides Of March – Vehicle **
• J. Bastos – Loop di love
• John Lennon – Instant karma (note: in 1992 again a Dutch hit)
• Marcos Valle – Os grilos (Crickets sing for Ana Maria) **
• MC5 – Back in the USA
• Oscar Peterson – A child is born
• Sandy Coast – Capital punishment
• Som Imaginario – Super-God **
• The Whatnauts – Message from a black man **