The Hit Parade is a music group that was initially formed by three schoolfriends: Julian Henry, Raymond Watts, and Matthew Moffatt. They founded their own JSH Records label as a vehicle for their releases and released their first single Forever in 1984. Their second and third singles were My Favourite Girl and The Sun Shines in Gerrards Cross. A year later The Hit Parade signed to Stiff Records but the label went out of business before anything (other than a track on a compilation album) was released. The first Hit Parade LP With Love From The Hit Parade was released in 1988. The album has been re-issued several times and is viewed as 80s indie classic. In the 1990s, The Hit Parade signed to Sarah Records label and recorded a single In Gunnersbury Park b/w Harvey and an album, The Sound Of The Hit Parade, in 1993. The Hit Parade then signed to Vinyl Japan and later Polystar Records, had a minor hit with Hello Hannah Hello and toured Japan several times, played at the opening of the Virgin Megastore Shinjuku, Tokyo, appearing on MTV Japan and other music TV shows, and signed to Minty Fresh Records in USA. In 2006 the band produced their fifth LP with The Field Mice and St Etienne producer Ian Catt, The Return of the Hit Parade. In 2014, the Hit Parade released Cornish Pop Songs, songs set in South West England. Five years later the eighth Hit Parade LP The Golden Age Of Pop was released on JSH Records. Now the band is back together for Under The Bridge 2, the new compilation by Skep Wax featuring bands linked to the Sarah Record experience.