# 1970

A curated list by [Sam](https://waxlog.com/user/vinyljunkies) on Waxlog.

303 releases · last updated 2025-06-07

## Releases

1. **Galt MacDermot** — Cotton Comes To Harlem \(Original Motion Picture Score\)
2. **Bruce Haack** — The Electric Lucifer
3. **Tim Maia** — Tim Maia
4. **Armando Sciascia** — Impressions In Rhythm & Sound
5. **Norio Maeda & All\-Stars** — Rock Communication 八木節
6. **Albert Ayler** — Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
7. **Elias Hulk** — Unchained\!
8. **Deep Purple** — Deep Purple In Rock
9. **Terry Riley** — A Rainbow In Curved Air
10. **Guy Pedersen** — Contrebasses
11. **Antonio Ricardo Luciani & Paolo Renosto** — Musiche Per Un Telefilm
12. **Love** — Revisited
13. **Giovanni Tommaso** — Indefinitive Atmosphere
14. **The Jackson 5** — ABC
15. **Bloodrock** — Bloodrock
16. **Santana** — Abraxas
17. **Grand Funk Railroad** — Closer To Home
18. **Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin' Band** — Kirikyogen
19. **Trapeze** — Medusa
20. **The Temptations** — Psychedelic Shack
21. **Kraftwerk** — Kraftwerk
22. **Nancy Dupree & Group Of Rochester, NY Youngsters** — Ghetto Reality
23. **Alton Purnell & The Cotton City Jazzband** — New Orleans Today Volume 2
24. **Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited & Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited** — Sounds Of Sound L.T.D. = サウンド・オブ・サウンド・リミテッド
25. **Elvin Jones** — Poly\-Currents
26. **Buffy Sainte\-Marie** — The Best Of Buffy Sainte\-Marie
27. **Grant Green** — Green Is Beautiful
28. **Jackie McLean** — Demon's Dance
29. **Rick Powell** — Country Electronique
30. **Nico Gomez And His Orchestra** — Viva Merengue
31. **Les Percussions De Strasbourg** — Americana
32. **Mashmakhan** — Mashmakhan
33. **Herbie Mann** — Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty
34. **Dave Barker & The Upsetters** — Prisoner Of Love
35. **Archie Shepp** — Live In San Francisco
36. **Sonny Sharrock** — Monkey\-Pockie\-Boo
37. **Caravan** — If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
38. **Barney Kessel** — Guitarra
39. **Flower Travellin' Band** — Anywhere
40. **Niagara** — Niagara
41. **Herbie Mann** — Concerto Grosso In D Blues
42. **Archie Shepp** — For Losers
43. **Czesław Niemen** — Enigmatic
44. **Dorothy Ashby** — The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby
45. **Johnny Robinson** — Memphis High
46. **Melvin Sparks** — Sparks\!
47. **Charlie Parker** — Charlie Parker On Dial Volume 5
48. **Embryo** — Opal
49. **Alexander Scriabine & Russian State Symphony Orchestra & Evgeni Svetlanov** — Symphony No. 2
50. **Allen Ginsberg & William Blake** — Songs Of Innocence And Experience
51. **Jethro Tull** — Benefit
52. **Nirvana** — Dedicated To Markos III
53. **Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends** — Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends
54. **Titanic** — Titanic
55. **Stray** — Stray
56. **Atomic Rooster** — Death Walks Behind You
57. **Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders & Joe Henderson** — Ptah, The El Daoud
58. **Bob & Marcia** — Young Gifted And Black
59. **Sir Lord Baltimore** — Kingdom Come
60. **Spirit** — Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
61. **Jimmy McGriff & Little Junior Parker** — Good Things Don't Happen Every Day
62. **Leo Acosta** — Acosta
63. **Guru Guru** — UFO
64. **Nico** — Desertshore
65. **Symarip** — Skinhead Moonstomp
66. **Soft Machine** — Third
67. **Bo Diddley** — The Black Gladiator
68. **Rick Powell** — Switched\-On\-Country
69. **Tyrannosaurus Rex** — A Beard Of Stars
70. **Colosseum** — Daughter Of Time
71. **Electric Food** — Electric Food
72. **Ananda Shankar** — Ananda Shankar
73. **Mose Allison** — The Best Of Mose Allison
74. **Grant Green** — Alive\!
75. **The Beatles** — 1967\-1970
76. **Van Morrison** — Moondance
77. **Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry** — Ceremony: An Electronic Mass
78. **Lightnin' Hopkins** — Lightnin' Hopkins In New York
79. **Robert Johnson** — King Of The Delta Blues Singers, Volume II
80. **John Lee Hooker** — On The Waterfront
81. **John Lee Hooker** — I Wanna Dance All Night
82. **John Lee Hooker & Earl Hooker** — If You Miss 'Im ... I Got 'Im
83. **John Lee Hooker** — The Great Blues Sounds Of John Lee Hooker
84. **Buddy Guy** — I Was Walking Through The Woods
85. **Junior Wells & Buddy Guy & Otis Spann** — Southside Blues Jam
86. **Hoagy Carmichael** — Mr Music Master
87. **Duke Ellington** — Duke Ellington's 70th Birthday Concert
88. **Shawn Phillips** — Second Contribution
89. **The Allman Brothers Band** — Idlewild South
90. **Sly & The Family Stone** — Greatest Hits
91. **King Crimson** — In The Wake Of Poseidon
92. **King Crimson** — Lizard
93. **The Rolling Stones** — Get Yer Ya\-Ya's Out\! \- The Rolling Stones In Concert
94. **Neil Young & Crazy Horse** — Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
95. **Willie Nelson** — "Columbus Stockade Blues" And Other Country Favorites
96. **Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones** — The Things That I Used To Do
97. **Les Percussions De Strasbourg & Gilbert Amy & Roman Haubenstock\-Ramati** — Cycle / Jeux 6
98. **André Boucourechliev & Les Percussions De Strasbourg & Georges Pludermacher** — Archipel 3
99. **Ron Carter** — Uptown Conversation
100. **Luc Ferrari** — Presque Rien No.1 / Société II
101. **The Upsetters** — Scratch The Upsetter Again
102. **Scott Walker** — 'Til The Band Comes In
103. **Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds** — Ecstasy 恍惚／エクスタシー
104. **Guru Guru** — Essen 1970
105. **The Moody Blues** — A Question Of Balance
106. **Peter Bardens** — Vintage '69
107. **The Groundhogs** — Thank Christ For The Bomb
108. **Curved Air** — Airconditioning
109. **Popol Vuh** — Affenstunde
110. **Dave Matthews** — The Grodeck Whipperjenny
111. **Wynonie Harris** — Good Rockin' Blues
112. **David Axelrod** — Earth Rot
113. **Pharoah Sanders** — Summun Bukmun Umyun \- Deaf Dumb Blind
114. **Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers** — Roots & Herbs
115. **Emerson Meyers** — Provocative Electronics \(Electronic Constructions On Traditional Forms\)
116. **Screamin' Jay Hawkins** — Because Is In Your Mind
117. **Simon Finn** — Pass The Distance
118. **Haystacks Balboa** — Haystacks Balboa
119. **Mort Garson** — Didn't You Hear?
120. **The Stooges** — Live At Goose Lake August 8th, 1970
121. **Wishbone Ash** — Wishbone Ash
122. **Tom Jones** — Tom
123. **Scott Dunbar** — From Lake Mary
124. **Frank Sinatra** — Watertown
125. **Johnny Adams** — Heart & Soul
126. **Lee Hazlewood** — Cowboy In Sweden
127. **Killing Floor** — Killing Floor
128. **Beverly Glenn\-Copeland** — Beverly Copeland
129. **Os Novos Baianos** — É Ferro Na Boneca\!
130. **Can** — Soundtracks
131. **Loretta Lynn** — Coal Miner’s Daughter
132. **Os Leifs** — Fobus In Totum / Nem Sei De Mim
133. **Barbara Howard** — On The Rise
134. **Led Zeppelin** — Led Zeppelin III
135. **Toquinho** — Toquinho
136. **Jimmy McGriff** — Soul Sugar
137. **Jimi Hendrix** — Band Of Gypsys
138. **Ike & Tina Turner** — Workin' Together
139. **T. Rex** — T. Rex
140. **Herbie Hancock** — Fat Albert Rotunda
141. **Buddy Montgomery** — This Rather Than That
142. **Gabor Szabo** — Blowin' Some Old Smoke
143. **Milt Jackson Quintet & Ray Brown** — That's The Way It Is
144. **Country Funk** — Country Funk
145. **Clifford Jordan** — Soul Fountain
146. **Arthur Bennett Lipkin & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Alan Hovhaness & Bernard Rogers & Roy Travis & Arthur Cohn & William Grant Still** — The Holy City / Apparitions / Collage / Kaddish / Festive Overture
147. **Grand Funk Railroad** — Live Album
148. **Paul Hindemith & The New York Philharmonic Orchestra & Leonard Bernstein** — Symphony In E Flat / Symphonic Metamorphosis Of Themes By Carl Maria Von Weber
149. **Bertram Turetzky & John Cage & Pauline Oliveros & Ben Johnston** — The Contemporary Contrabass
150. **Edgard Varèse & Ensemble "die reihe", Wien & Friedrich Cerha** — Ionisation \- Octandre \- Hyperprism \- Intégrales \- Offrandes \- Density
151. **Francis Thorne & T.J. Anderson & Michael Brozen & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & James Dixon** — Liebesrock / Chamber Symphony / In Memoriam
152. **Desmond Dekker** — You Can Get It If You Really Want
153. **Fruko Y Sus Tesos** — Tesura
154. **The Upsetters** — Eastwood Rides Again
155. **Ludwig van Beethoven** — Archduke Trio
156. **Freddie Hubbard** — Straight Life
157. **Tom T. Hall** — 100 Children
158. **Freddie Hubbard** — Red Clay
159. **Antonio Carlos Jobim** — Stone Flower
160. **James Brown** — Sex Machine
161. **Merry Clayton** — Gimme Shelter
162. **Jean\-Jacques Perrey** — Moog Indigo
163. **Eddy Arnold** — The Best Of Eddy Arnold Volume II
164. **No Artist** — Environments \(New Concepts In Stereo Sound\) \(Disc 2\)
165. **Rare Earth** — Ecology
166. **Miles Davis** — Bitches Brew
167. **Uriah Heep** — ...Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble...
168. **Johnny Cash** — The Johnny Cash Show
169. **Karlheinz Stockhausen** — Festival Of Hits
170. **Karlheinz Stockhausen** — Opus 1970
171. **David Oistrach & Igor Oistrach & Ludwig van Beethoven & Max Bruch** — Konzert Für Violine & Orchester Nr. 1 g\-moll Op. 26 / Romanzen Für Violine & Orchester Nr. 1 G\-dur Op. 40 · Nr. 2 F\-dur Op. 50
172. **Adolf Scherbaum & Wilhelm Krumbach** — La Tromba Sacra
173. **Zubin Mehta & Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky** — 1812 Overture / Romeo And Juliet
174. **Siegfried Behrend & Siegfried Fink & Claudia Brodzinska\-Behrend** — »Guitar & Percussion«
175. **Edvard Grieg** — Peer Gynt Suiten Nr.1&2 • Hochzeitstag Auf Troldhaugen / Huldigungsmarsch Aus »Sigurd Jorsalfar«
176. **Maurice Ravel & Paul Dukas & Emmanuel Chabrier & Manuel De Falla & Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper & Hermann Scherchen** — Bolero / The Sorcerer's Apprentice / Espana / Ritual Fire Dance / Dance Of Terror
177. **Charlie Haden** — Liberation Music Orchestra
178. **The Sun Ra Arkestra** — Holiday For Soul Dance
179. **Ludwig van Beethoven & Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan** — Ouvertüren • Overtures
180. **Various** — Money Maker
181. **Freddie Hubbard** — Straight Life
182. **Eugene McDaniels** — Outlaw
183. **Son House** — John The Revelator
184. **Ennio Morricone** — Città Violenta \(Colonna Sonora Originale\)
185. **Black Sabbath** — Paranoid
186. **Mel Brown** — I'd Rather Suck My Thumb
187. **Morton Subotnick** — The Wild Bull
188. **Felix Groesbeck & Clark Trumbull Jr. & Mervin Browne & Duane Tillman & Joyce Bell & Irma Groesbeck** — 16 Northern Arapahoe Songs
189. **Alessandro Alessandroni** — I Cantori Moderni Di A. Alessandroni
190. **Black Sabbath** — Black Sabbath
191. **Jean\-Pierre Ferland** — Jaune
192. **Charles Mingus** — The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus
193. **Alice Cooper** — Easy Action
194. **Swamp Dogg** — Total Destruction To Your Mind
195. **Piero Piccioni** — Colpo Rovente \(Colonna Sonora Original Del Film\)
196. **Lou Donaldson** — Live : Fried Buzzard
197. **Sweet Smoke** — Just A Poke
198. **Charles Earland** — Black Talk\!
199. **Charlie Parker** — Charlie Parker On Dial Volume 1
200. **Charlie Parker** — Charlie Parker On Dial Volume 3
201. **Traffic Sound** — Virgin
202. **John Coltrane** — Transition
203. **Lou Donaldson** — Everything I Play Is Funky
204. **Bee Gees** — Cucumber Castle
205. **Juicy Lucy** — Juicy Lucy
206. **Melanie** — Candles In The Rain
207. **Syd Barrett** — The Madcap Laughs
208. **Elvin Jones** — Poly\-Currents
209. **Jack DeJohnette** — Have You Heard?
210. **Various** — L'Afghanistan \- Musique De La Route Interdite Du Nouristan
211. **John Lee Hooker** — The Real Blues
212. **Ramsey Lewis** — The Best Of Ramsey Lewis
213. **Wigwam** — Tombstone Valentine
214. **Gas Mask** — Their First Album
215. **Ballin' Jack** — Ballin' Jack
216. **Aretha Franklin** — Spirit In The Dark
217. **Alfred Newman** — Airport
218. **Roberta Flack** — Chapter Two
219. **James Gang** — James Gang Rides Again
220. **Freddie Hubbard** — Red Clay
221. **Conway Twitty** — Hello Darlin'
222. **Deep Purple & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra** — Concerto For Group And Orchestra
223. **Cactus** — Cactus
224. **Magma** — Kobaïa
225. **Dusty Springfield** — A Brand New Me
226. **The Fifth Dimension** — The 5th Dimension Special
227. **Marcos Valle** — Marcos Valle
228. **Jean\-Luc Ponty** — King Kong: Jean\-Luc Ponty Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa
229. **Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two** — The Singing Story Teller
230. **Jimmy McGriff** — Electric Funk
231. **Gordon Lightfoot** — Sit Down Young Stranger
232. **Quincy Jones** — They Call Me Mister Tibbs
233. **Exuma** — Exuma
234. **Willie Henderson & The Soul Explosions** — Funky Chicken
235. **Donny Hathaway** — Everything Is Everything
236. **Isaac Hayes** — ...To Be Continued
237. **Bob Dylan** — New Morning
238. **Sixto Rodriguez** — Cold Fact
239. **Eric Burdon & War** — Eric Burdon Declares "War"
240. **T. Rex** — T. Rex
241. **The Grateful Dead** — Workingman's Dead
242. **Bukka White** — Parchman Farm
243. **Mavis Staples** — Only For The Lonely
244. **Stu Phillips** — Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls \(The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album\)
245. **Miles Davis** — Miles Davis At Fillmore
246. **Neil Young** — After The Gold Rush
247. **Etta James** — Losers Weepers
248. **The Grateful Dead** — American Beauty
249. **Krzysztof Penderecki & Toshiro Mayuzumi & John Williams & Eastman Wind Ensemble & Donald Hunsberger** — Pittsburgh Overture / Music With Sculpture / Sinfonietta For Wind Ensemble
250. **Larry Willis** — A New Kind Of Soul

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