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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
Stevens had a transatlantic chart-topping hit in 1974 with "The Streak", a novelty song about streaking that reached number one on the American and British singles charts. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some exceptions (such as " Shriner's Convention " in 1981), Stevens focused mostly on serious material, as he felt ...
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.
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 ...
Song Artist(s) Reference January 9 "I Write the Songs" Barry Manilow January 16 January 23 "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon: January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 "Theme from S.W.A.T." Rhythm Heritage: February 27 March 5 "Dream Weaver" Gary Wright: March 12 March 19 "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" The Four Seasons: March 26 ...
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
The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1974. [ 58 ] 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 ...