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unusual facts about Hit Parade



1959 in Australian television

Notable series which ended in 1959 included variety and/or music series Astor Showcase, Hit Parade and Sydney Tonight (which had been re-titled and re-formatted as Tonight), drama series Autumn Affair and Emergency, and comedy series Take That.


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Amelia Fletcher

She has also appeared as a guest vocalist for The 6ths on the song Looking For Love (In the Hall Of Mirrors), on both Bugbear recordings, a single by The Hit Parade, "Why do you have to go out with him when you could go out with me?" single by The Brilliant Corners, and the 2000 album Trend by Oxford band The Relationships.

Blue Danube Radio

It also syndicated Casey Kasem's Top 40 (American hit parade), and a short programme called Passport encouraged the study of foreign languages.

Burnsville Performing Arts Center

Past performances include the Girl Singers of the Hit Parade, Larry Carlton, Louie Anderson, Lori Lane, Richard Marx, Church Basement Ladies, Melissa Manchester, Bill Engvall, Nick Colionne, Celtic Crossroads, Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rob Lake, Tommy Emmanuel, Sinbad, Ralphie May, Dakota Valley Symphony, Chameleon Theater Circle, Miss Minnesota USA/Teen USA, and Cirque D’Or.

Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band

The band has appeared on TV and radio countless times, and many may remember their appearance on Top of the Pops in 1981 accompanying Tony Capstick, with The Sheffield Grinder; Capstick comes home; a partnership which saw them rise to number three in the hit parade.

Eileen Wilson

Before her Hit Parade years, Wilson sang with the Skitch Henderson and Les Brown orchestras.

Jo Leemans

She had multiple number 1 hits in the national hit parade including "Que Sera Sera", a Dutch cover of the song by Doris Day, only one month after the original.

Joe Cuba

In 1966, his band which included timbales, congas, sometimes bongos, bass, vibraphones, and the piano among its musical instruments, scored a "hit" in the United States National Hit Parade List with the song "Bang Bang" - which helped kick off the popularity of the boogaloo.

Step into Christmas

"Step into Christmas" was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the holiday EP Bollocks to Christmas.

Tony Fontane

While Tony Bennett took the song to #1 on the pop chart that year, Fontane's version of the song reached #28 on the Hit Parade, surpassing the version by Hank Williams, who wrote the song.