Hit Parade (Australian TV series)

The Hit Parade was an early Australian television pop music series which aired on the Seven Network 's HSV-7 from 1956[1] to 1959. It is often mentioned in books discussing Australian television of the 1950s.[2]

Overview

The series presented hit recordings, which were danced to and lip-synced by the cast ("The Hit Paraders"[3]), often presenting the songs in settings with sets and costumes (anticipating the music video). Over 20 episodes of this series are held by National Film and Sound Archive,[4] along with a few episodes of These Were the Hits, a similar series.

gollark: https://osmarks.tk/infipage/pESOLANGS
gollark: Please stop.
gollark: Looks F#y.
gollark: ?remind 5d Misuse ?remind
gollark: https://osmarks.tk/infipage/0 <- it now encodes (some) numbers in a weird base64 format for more compact URLs!

References
  1. "The Age - Google News Archive Search".
  2. "TELEVISION PARADE". The Australian Women's Weekly. 25 ([?]). Australia, Australia. 23 April 1958. p. 35. Retrieved 1 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "NFSA - Title Details".
  4. "NFSA - Title Details".

See also
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