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"Miss Hit and Run" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue. [1] [2] Blue released the single in 1974 as a follow-up single to "School Love" on Bell Records in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain and on the Barclay label in France [3] and recorded it with a "Beach Boys" type of arrangement. [4] [5] Indeed, the Liverpool Echo wrote "Barry Blue could easily have a case of mistaken identity on his hands this week - for on his new release "Miss Hit And Run" he sounds more like the "Beach Boys" than they do themselves". [6] The single sided acetate label of the single reveals that the original title was "Little Miss Hit and Run", confirming what was reported in the music press at the time. [7] The song was Blue's fourth consecutive hit, reaching number 26 on the official UK Singles Chart in August 1974. [8] It also reached number 9 on Capitol Radio's "Capitol Countdown" chart, [9] number 24 on the Melody Maker singles chart [10] and it spent three weeks on the Dutch Tipparade. [11] In some UK regional charts based on sales (such as the HMV store in Birmingham), it reached the Top 20 [12] The original single version of the song performed by Blue was also a track on the K-Tel album, Music Explosion, [13] Music Power [14] (which reached No. 1 on the Austrian and German albums charts) [15] and the Polydor album, 20 Super Power Hits. [16]
Notable TV performances of the song included appearances on 10 August 1974 on TopPop , the Dutch pop music program [17] as well as Lift Off with Ayshea (Episode 124) on 22 July 1974 [18] [19] and the BBC programme Top of the Pops . [20] "Miss Hit and Run" was re-released by Blue as the B-side to "Do You Wanna Dance" in 1980. [21] The song has been released on a number of Barry Blue compilation CDs such as The Singles Collection, [22] Dancin' (On A Saturday Night)... Best Of. [23] and most recently Out of the Blue - 50 Years of Discovery (2021). [24]