Streaplers

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Streaplers is a Swedish musical group, which was founded in 1959 in Kungälv as a pop group but later was developed into a dansband. Original members were Gert Lengstrand (vocals), Bjarne Lundquist, Göran Liljeblad, Håkan Liljeblad och Lars Larsson.

The group break through with Säkkinjärven Polka in 1963. Hit songs as Diggety Doggety, Mule Skinner Blues and Rockin' Robin followed. Singer Gert Lengstrand left the group in 1966, and since then the band begun a development towards playing dansband music. Robert Löfvendahl became new singer in 1969. The same year, the band had a Svensktoppen number one hit with "Tusen öars land". In 1970, Ove Pilebo begun as singer and became one of Sweden's most popular dansbands, with 225 concerts. As dansband, they haft many Svensktoppen hits, like "Valentino", "Jag har en dröm" and "Till min kära", which during the period 1995-1997 was at the list fo 73 weeks, 22 of them on the first place.

Today, the twins Håkan an Göran are the only original members. The other members are Kenny Samuelsson, Anders Larsson (taking over when Lasse Larsson left the band, Anders is Lasse's borther's son) and Kjetil Granli.