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Here is Chris Mulanphy with Hit Parade. Is that a great song? Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history about the hits from coast to coast, from Slate magazine.

Coming to you live from the bellhouse in Brooklyn New York the

greatest city in the world and I do mean Brooklyn. I am Chris Malanthi a

native son of the County of Kings, and also a chart analyst, pop critic,

and writer of Slates Why is the song Number One series.

As you can hopefully hear out there in Podcast Land, we're recording a podcast tonight,

I am being joined tonight by a few

hundred of my newest friends. A boisterous gang of fellow chart nerds. Say

hello everybody. I must say I am relieved to feel so much love and support in this room because frankly all of you are guinea pigs

Not just for me, but in the more than dozen year history of slate podcasts because funny story

we've never really done anything like this before when the slate live team approached me

last summer and asked flatteringly if I wanted to try a live edition of Hit Parade.

I played it cool. But on the inside, my first reaction was to cheer silently.

I've long dreamed of hosting not just a slate podcast but a live podcast but my

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