Stray Cut Strut

Exactly 30 years ago, New York-based band Stray Cats hit a peak position of number 3 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with “Stray Cat Strut.”  The single, which would spend three weeks at that position, is the band’s highest-charting hit.  It was also their second consecutive Top 10 hit, following “Rock This Town,” which spent five weeks at number 9 from December 1982 to January 1983 and which, despite the lower peak position, tends to be the more famous of the band’s hits.  Stray Cats would also hit the Top 10 one more time later that year, as “(She’s) Sexy + 17” climbed to number 5 in October 1983.

The band continued to make music for another decade, and then reunited in the mid- to late 2000s, but they never again reached the Top 10.

For more on Stray Cats, check out their official website.