On this day back in 1973, a peculiar tune by Dutch rock band FOCUS, christened HOCUS POCUS scaled to the #9 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 (Jun 3, 1973) Initially recorded and released in 1971 as the launchpad for their second studio album, Moving Waves, "Hocus Pocus" was a musical exploration. This variant, despite becoming a single on the Imperial, Polydor and Blue Horizon labels across Europe, did not manage to capture the attention of audiences outside their home country of the Netherlands, w