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The Golden Age Of Pop

    'The Golden Age Of Pop' contains 12 bright new pop songs including recent 45rpm single releases "Joey's Girl" and "Happy World".

    The vinyl pressing comes with a limited edition free comic "Tales From Planet Pop" by illustrator Paul McCaffrey.

    It's the true story of a "Pop Group Doomed To A Life of Obscurity", that follows the early years of the band. Over the last twenty years The Hit Parade's catalogue of songs have been heralded as "perfect pop" (NME) "indie icons" (Word) "casually sophisticated" (Observer) "rare talent" (Q Mag) "bona fide pop smash" (Drowned In Sound) and "the very definition of twee Eighties style indie" (Arts Desk).

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    Oh Honey I...

      One of the UK's most obscure but dearly-cherished indie bands THE HIT PARADE release their twelfth single on 7" vinyl on JSH RECORDS on 1st December 2017. "Oh Honey I..." is a new song, a three minute pop lament to 1961 classic British film "A Taste of Honey" recorded in lo-fi mono and produced by R G Watts. The B-Side "History of Art" is another new song, an imagined portrait of British novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) in later life. 

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      Pick Of The Pops (Vol. 1)

        A swish new compilation CD, featuring twenty of the most memorable songs in the career of the top notch indie band The Hit Parade.

        Optimistically entitled 'Pick Of The Pops (Vol1)' the new CD represents the most poignant moments in the colourful life of The Hit Parade, and includes their thoughtful recording for Sarah Records "In Gunnersbury Park", their tub thumping single for Minty Fresh USA "Hitomi" as well as other singles, both cheerful and desolate in style, that feature Cath Carroll (Factory Records), Amelia Fletcher (Heavenly and Tallulah Gosh) and Harvey Williams (Another Sunny Day and The Field Mice).

        The Hit Parade is the nom de guerre of Julian Henry, who formed this band with his school friends Matt Moffatt and Raymond Watts in 1984. In refusing to acknowledge the passing of time, they have clung to the sensibilities of pure pop with impressive tenacity and have earned the begrudging respect of the London and Los Angeles indie world as the last remaining flag bearers of the twee and the C86 music scene; their first singles in the 1980s were lauded by John Peel, the NME and Melody Maker. In the 1990s the band toured alongside Sarah Records notables and signed to Japanese and US labels, releasing a sequence of albums that have been unavailable on CD for over fifteen years. More recently, their last two 7" vinyl single releases were declared 'a bona fide smash' and 'one of the best singles of 2010' by Drowned In Sound.


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