Billboard Sweep - 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996

1993

Billboard Chart Sweeps - 1990, 1991, 1992

1990

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1988, 1989

1988 

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

1984

Billboard Chart Sweeps - 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

1980

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1978, 1979

1978

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977

1974

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973

1970

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1967, 1968, 1969

Chart Sweep -- Billboard Hot 100, 1967

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1964, 1965, 1966

1964

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963

Chart Sweep -- Billboard Hot 100, 1960

Billboard Chart Sweep - 1958, 1959

1958

01/04/2011 - Pop Music Chart Introduced in 1936

1936 - The

first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine. 

01/03/1964 - Ed Sullivan and Jack Paar BOTH Lied! Hats off CBS....

Happy Monday Cats and Kittens!! We take today's Ocho-rific Song o the Day from today's date in history.  

1964 - The Beatles made their first appearance on U.S. television in a film clip shown on the "Jack Paar Show." It was a performance of the song "She Loves You."

01/02/2011 - "The guy was writing the ticket and I was writing the lyrics..." - Sammy Hagar

Good Morning and Merry January 2nd! 

In addition to "writing ahead" on the "meat" of the posts, I'm attempting when possible to coordinate my blogs with events in history so that we can all have a bit of a learning experience too because learning is fun!!!  - :) - You're welcome :) 

01/01/11 - "Regarding authorship of the melody, Lennon's and McCartney's recollections differ."

Happy Belated Christmas and Merry New Year!


There were some really great Christmas things that I was going to do with the Ocho-rific - and I'm relatively famous for saying that sort of thing - if only I had a full staff.  Anywho, when I started getting behind with my new ideas for this blog around Halloween - I decided to just scrap along the best I could and start planning ahead for next year...this year. 

12/23/2011 - Released in '71 & Re-Released in '73 - Greg Lake Wrote It At Age 12!

Good morning folks!  Today's post is a bit of an experiment on a slightly less rigid format on the "daily blog post".  ...or it's supposed to be.  We'll see how it turns out :) 


Anywho, I'm here because I was just looking up Emerson, Lake and Palmer -


I was visiting with a friend this week and we were discussing Greg Lake - Father Christmas. 

12/22/2010 - ::Hippy-rific Humpday:: - Trips Festival of '66

Good morning Cats and Kittens and Happy Hippy-rific Humpday! 


I'm determined to keep you going with at least

the Hippy-rific Humpdays until we get to 2011.  Things have been crazy busy and I have truly missed the Ocho-rific blog more than anything else I've had to minimize my time spent on lately. 

Hippie-rific Humpday - This Guitar Legend was in the 101st Airborne & Stationed in Fort Campbell, Ky

Today you will find many ::Extra Goodies:: at
the Ocho-rific Song o the Day on Facebook


And now, for today's

Ocho-rific Song o the Day...
-All Along the Watchtower-
covered by Jimi Hendrix

12/10/2010 - Voted #1 on VH1's List of 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s -

today's

Ocho-rific Song o the Day...