Single:
Hit and Run entered the Australian singles chart* on 30 July 1979 and peaked at #12. It was #60 on the Top 100 of 1979.
Album:
The song is on Screaming Targets which entered the Australian albums chart* on 6 August 1979 and peaked at #13.
Songwriters:
Joe Camilleri, Jeff Burstin, Tony Faehse
Producer:
Peter Solley
Record label of Australian release:
Mushroom
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Hit and Run was Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons’ first single, and Screaming Targets the band’s first album, on Mushroon after Oz Records folded. They were released in Australia in 1979, then in the USA in 1980.
Mushroom was eager to connect with the ‘new wave’ in England and brought over Peter Solley, an English producer and latter-day Procol Harum member. Solley produced this single and album, although he was originally brought in to work with The Sports.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jo_Zep_and_the_Falcons
Lyrics:
You′ve gotta keep a putting a bootin a runnin a hiding
Cause it’s gonna get you
You′ve gotta keep a one step a two step a quick step a thick step
Cause it’s gonna get you
I’ve got to make it waterproof
Cause it just can′t go on
Oh now then don′t look back
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