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"The Streak" is a country/novelty song written, produced, and sung by Ray Stevens. It was released in February 1974 as the lead single to his album Boogity Boogity . "The Streak" capitalized on the then-popular craze of streaking .
Boogity Boogity was Ray Stevens' eleventh studio album, released in 1974, as well as his sixth for Barnaby Records. For this album, Stevens returns to the genres of novelty and comedy . The album was released to capitalize on the success of his hit single " The Streak ", which was inspired by the fad of streaking during that time period.
Stevens released his first single in 1957 and his first full album in 1962. Dozens of Stevens' singles have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and two of them reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: "The Streak" and "Everything Is Beautiful". The former and a cover of the jazz standard "Misty" are his biggest hits on the ...
The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand was the number one song of 1974. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1974. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the Talent In Action section of Billboard dated December 28, 1974, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 24, 1973, through October 26, 1974.
Iron man (sports streak), an athlete of unusual physical endurance; Hitting streak, in baseball, a consecutive number of games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit. Dell Streak, tablet computer by Dell; Streak camera, device to measure short optical pulses "The Streak" (song), a 1974 record by Ray Stevens
These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1974.. That year, 25 acts earn their first number one song, such as Steve Miller Band, Al Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Terry Jacks, John Denver, Blue Swede, MFSB, The Three Degrees, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, Gordon Lightfoot, The Hues Corporation, George McCrae, Paper Lace, Odia Coates, Eric Clapton, Barry ...
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, later sang "Winning Streak," another song from his soon-to-be-released LP. The star previously expressed his excitement about his SNL gig ...
The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1974. [ 60 ] Parodied in a 6 May 1974 Peanuts comic strip, the character Snoopy , in his college big man on campus alter-ego Joe Cool; engages in the "latest campus fad" by removing his customary sunglasses and collar, then proceeds to go streaking by the fourth panel by appearing to ...