| "The Streak" | ||||
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| Single by Ray Stevens | ||||
| from the album Boogity Boogity | ||||
| B-side | "You've Got the Music Inside" | |||
| Released | February 1974[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
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| Length | 3:18 | |||
| Label | Barnaby | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ray Stevens | |||
| Producer(s) | Ray Stevens | |||
| Ray Stevens singles chronology | ||||
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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.[2]
One of Stevens' most successful recordings, "The Streak" was his second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US, spending three weeks at the top in May 1974, as well as reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. A major international hit, it also reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, spending a single week at the top of the chart in June 1974.[3] In total it sold over five million copies internationally and ranked on Billboard′s top hits of 1974 at number 8.
- ^ "Ray Stevens - the Streak [Mono]".
- ^ Michael Kosser (2006), How Nashville became Music City, U.S.A.: 50 years of Music Row, p. 96, ISBN 9780634098062
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 301. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.