Hit Parade: The B-Sides Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Sometimes record executives and even the musicians themselves get it totally, completely wrong: thinking that throwaway, wacky song was destined for a single’s B-side, only to find it’s actually the No. 1 hit—from the Beatles to Beyoncé. At our first-ever live Hit Parade—recorded at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York— host and trivia-meister Chris Molanphy and special guest Ted Leo break down some of the most improbable chart-toppers of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	Here is Chris Mulanphy with Hit Parade. Thank you. Is that a great song?
0:43.0	Welcome to
0:45.0	A. Is that a great song?
0:50.0	Is that a great song?
0:52.0	Welcome to hit parade. Is that a great song?
0:57.0	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history about the hits from Coast to Coast, from Slate magazine.
1:01.0	Coming to you live from the Bell House in Brooklyn New York the
1:04.7	greatest city in the world and I do mean Brooklyn. I am Chris Malanfi a
1:11.2	native son of the County of Kings, and also a chart analyst, pop critic,
1:15.8	and writer of Slates Why is the song number one series.
1:18.6	As you can hopefully hear out there on Podcast Land, we're recording a podcast tonight.
1:22.0	I am being joined tonight by a few hundred of my newest friends. A boisterous gang of fellow chartner. Say hello everybody.
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