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.