{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Hit Parade 1 | type = Compilation | artist = The Wedding Present | cover =Hit Parade 1.jpg | alt = | released = 8 June 1992 | recorded = January–May 1992 | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 41:22 | label = RCA | producer = Chris Nagle, Ian Broudie | prev_title = Seamonsters | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = Hit Parade 2 | next_year = 1993 }} In 1992, The Wedding Present decided to release a limited edition single every month, each featuring an original track on the A side and a cover on the B side. The tracks were compiled as two LPs called '''''Hit Parade 1''''' and ''Hit Parade 2'' and re-released as a double CD in 2003 called ''The Hit Parade''.
The plan to release 12 singles in a year was an attempt to match Elvis Presley's record of 12 top 40 singles in a year<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/19/the-wedding-present-repeat-to-fade-music |title=Repeat to Fade bands: the Present that keeps on giving |date=2013-09-19 |author=Mark Beaumont |work=The Guardian |accessdate=2021-11-13}}</ref> which he had achieved in 1957.<ref name="cargorecordsdirect"/> The singles, each in an edition of 10,000, were deleted soon after release.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thi-wurd.com/hit-parade-singles-1992-the-wedding-present/ |title=Hit Parade Singles, 1992 – The Wedding Present |date=9 May 2021 |accessdate=2021-11-13}}</ref> They were critically acclaimed and each charted in the top 40.<ref name="cargorecordsdirect">{{cite web |url=https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/collections/scopitones/products/the-wedding-present-live-1992 |title=THE WEDDING PRESENT 'LIVE 1992' |accessdate=2021-11-13}}</ref>
Revisiting the album in 2013, the band played all the songs on their UK and European tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146797-its-probably-a-mild-form-of-mental-illness-dis-meets-the-wedding-present |title="It's probably a mild form of mental illness" - DiS meets The Wedding Present |author=Hayley Scott |date=2013-08-29 |accessdate=2011-11-13 |archive-date=2013-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901232735/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146797-its-probably-a-mild-form-of-mental-illness-dis-meets-the-wedding-present |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Blue Eyes" # "Go Go Dancer" # "Three" # "Silver Shorts" # "Come Play With Me" # "California" # "Cattle and Cane" (The Go-Betweens) # "Don't Cry No Tears" (Neil Young and Crazy Horse) # "Think That it Might" (Altered Images) # "Falling" (Julee Cruise) # "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (The Monkees) # "Let's Make Some Plans" (Close Lobsters)
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