The Hit Parade

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Release Date: 1993-05

Label: Not On Label

This mail order only box has all the standard 7 inch singles in a textured box with metallic bronze debossed text.
The box has no catalogue numbering or other information printed on it other than Band / Title.
3000 boxes were produced in total and empty boxes could be purchased by collectors who already had the vinyl set.

Some copies may have come with a Hit Parade promotional carrier bag, printed on both sides and/or a compliments slip watermarked with a recycled logo and "Conservation", signed by Sally Murrell.

The record sleeves are all of gloss card with a die cut thumb section, all top opening except disc 3 and 7 are side opening.
Disc 12 is red vinyl and includes a promotional postcard.
The first six appear pressed by EMI Records whilst the second six are by Damont.

These complete boxes are known to have been sold (as one single-priced unit) from The Wedding Present's own mail order store from May 1993 when it was announced that limited quantities of the (presumed sold-out) singles had been secretly held back from retail to protect genuine fans from inflated spiv prices.

In December 2021, replica empty boxes were made available from Scopitones. The new version is marginally bigger, the texturing is a little more fine and the typeset of the title on the lid has lettering which is more thin and has wider spacings. The replica boxes sold out in pre-sale.

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