Joe - Your Hit Parade was a weekly radio and, later, TV show which purported to to perform the top 7 (on TV) songs of the week as indicated by record sales, sheet music sales, and juke box plays of that week.
Frank Sinatra was one of the performers for a short period in the 1940s on the radio version. The TV show, called Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade during much of its run was sponsored by a cigarette company...the eponymous Lucky Strikes. To fill the allotted time there were always a couple of Lucky Strike extras, songs that were not one of the hits. TV performers included Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, Dorothy Collins and Giselle MacKenzie; others I have forgotten. The Lucky Strike Orchestra--notice how they always got their name in there--was conducted by Raymond Scott. Scott was the composer of the "Looney Tunes" tune, and really innovative popular, and not so popular, dance music before this gig. I commend his website to you. Your Hit Parade went off TV in the mid-1950s; I mean, who could perform Sh-Boom every week, or Oop Shoop?