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Your Hit Parade

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Your Hit Parade was a popular United States music radio and television program. It was broadcast from 1935 through 1955 on radio, and from 1950 through 1959 on TV. The most popular songs of the then current week were sung or performed.

The show debuted on radio as "The Lucky Strike Cigarettes Hit Parade", after the sponsor company.

The cast of the 1950s TV version included Snooky Lansen, Russell Arms, Dorothy Collins, and Gisele Mackenzie. Also Eileen Wilson, June Valli, and Johnny Desmond. Bob Fosse was an occasional guest dancer during the first year or two of the TV show.