40 Year Itch: Bloodstone Vs Bloodrock

 

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No need to be confused. Bloodstone is the old school Kansas City doo wop band turned  70's LA funksters who hit the Top 10 in 1973 with one of the year's great songs "Natural High". They also contributed to one of the last blaxploitation soundtracks for a 1975 movie called Train Ride to Hollywood.

Bloodrock is the Texas hard rock band that hit it big with the 1971 anti-drug death disc "D.O.A."( USA#36) . In 1973, the band released Passages featuring the topical B side "Thank You Daniel Ellsberg" about the military analyst who released classified Pentagon documents to the New York Times in 1971. Ellsberg has publicly supported both Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden for leaking of classified papers .

Soul Top 20 June 9, 1973

The Spinners celebrate replacing Barry White at #1 on the Soul Charts by playing the Apollo Theater with special guests Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes

1. The Spinners : One of a Kind (Love Affair)

2. Barry White : I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby

3. Dells : Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation

4. Gladys Night and the Pips : Daddy Could Swear, I Declare

5.Bloodstone : Natural High

6. The Independents : Leaving Me

7. Chairmen of the Board : Finders Keepers

8. Tyrone Davis : Without You In My Life

9. The O'Jays : Time to Get Down

10. Sylvia : Pillow Talk

11. Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles

12. The Dramatics : Get Off My Mountain

13.  New Birth : I Can Understand It

14. the J.B's : Doing It to Death

15. First Choice : Armed and Extremely Dangerous

16. Intruders : I'll Always Love My Mama

17. Stylistics : You'll Never Get to Heaven ( If You Break My Heart)

18. Michael Jackson : With a Child's Heart

19. Mandrill : Fencewalk

20. James Brown : Think