July 6th 1974- Disco Hit’s #1 With Hues Corporation’s ‘Rock the Boat’ [VIDEO]

Many consider it to be the first disco record to make it to number one on the top 40 chart, although it was the only hit Hues Corporation ever had. "Rock the Boat" was slow to make it because it got no radio play until clubs started playing it in the New York area. Over a year after it's release, on this day in 1974 "Rock the Boat" became the first disco record to reach #1.

It makes sense that it be today's song, because a lot of Northern Colorado may be rocking boats later today as Larimer and Boulder counties are under a flash flood watch again today.

Hues Corporation member St. Clair Lee claimed "It was a song that you could do anything on. You could cuddle or you could get crazy if you wanted to. It was a love song without being a love song." Despite their initial success, the group was unable to duplicate the success of their earlier hits and disbanded in 1978. But with renewed interest in disco music throughout the 1990s, the group reunited for tour dates and special events, including the PBS special Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion. Later in the '90's Fleming Williams, who sang the male lead part on "Rock the Boat," died and in March of 2011 founding  member St. Clair Lee died. "Rock the Boat" still lives on today, and is a favorite on radio stations all over the country 37 years later.