Bee Gees - Billboard Hot 100 singles chart History ( 1966 - 1997 )

Billboard Hot 100 - Top 50 Singles (5/5/2012)

Kentucky Derby Flashback - 1992

20 years ago Lil E Tee ran away from the field coming down the home stretch to take the 118th running of the Kentucky Derby.

In a huge upset the bay colt held off challenges by favorite Arazi, Casual Lies and Dance Floor to win a slow race at 2:03:04.

Gunsmoke on Television

Gunsmoke debuted on CBS television on September 10th 1955 at 10pm on Saturday night.  It was not an immediate hit that season but came back the next season to finish tied for 7th place (I've Got a Secret).  The next season 1957-58 it was the #1 show in primetime with a 43.1 rating, well ahead of the Danny Thomas Show and leading several other westerns into the top ten prime time show list like #3 Tales of Wells Fargo, #4 Have Gun Will Travel, #6 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and at #8 The Restless Gun.  
This would be the first of 4 straight seasons that Gunsmoke was the #1 rated show on television.  A record that it held until All In the Family had 5 straight seasons at #1 (1971-1976).

What I am going to do to pay tribute to this feat by Gunsmoke I am going to post as many of the episodes from that first season it was #1 in the ratings (1957-58) as I can find.   First of all though I would like to show the episode from this week, April 26th of 1957, "Innocent Broad".

Kentucky Derby Flashback - 2002

Ten years ago on May 4 2002 the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby and the favorite at post time was War Emblem.

New York Times Bestseller List NonFiction April 22 2012

Here are the Top 10 books on the New York Times Bestseller Non Fiction List for the Week ending April 22 2012
(click on the titles and go to Amazon and purchase or read more about the book)

10 - Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson    (24 weeks on list)
9  -  American Sniper - Chris Kyle   (14 weeks)
8  -  The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg   (6 weeks)
7  -  Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard  (28 weeks)
6  -  Wild - Cheryl Strayed   (3 weeks)
5  -  Mrs. Kennedy and Me - Clint Hill w/Lisa McCubbin  (Debut)
4  -  Imagine - Jonah Lehrer  (3 weeks)
3  -  Trickle Down Tyranny - Michael Savage  (Debut)
2  -  The Big Miss - Hank Haney   (2 weeks)
1  -  Drift - Rachel Maddow  
(2nd consecutive week at #1)

New York Times Bestseller List Fiction 4/22/2012

Here are the Top Ten Bestselling novels on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction list for the week ending April 22 2012
(click the titles and go to Amazon to purchase or read more about the book)

10 - Beastly Things - Donna Leon  (Debut)
9  -  Lover Reborn - J.R. Ward    (2 weeks on list)
(last weeks #1)
8  -  The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler   (Debut)
7  -  Stay Close - Harlan Coben  (3 weeks)
6  -  Betrayal - Danielle Steel     (Debut)
5  -  The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani   (Debut)
4  -  The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith
(Debut)
3  -  Sacre' Bleu - Christopher Moore    (Debut)
2  -  Guilty Wives - James Patterson   (2 weeks)
1  -  The Lost Years - Mary Higgins Clark
(Debut)