"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] 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.^[6] The song was Blue's fourth consecutive hit, reaching number 26 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1974.^[7] It also reached number 9 on Capitol Radio's "Capitol Countdown" chart,^[8] and spent three weeks on the Dutch Tipparade.^[9] It was also a track on the K-Tel album, Music Explosion^[10] and the Polydor LP "20 Super Power Hits".^[11]

Notable TV performances of the song included appearances on 10 August 1974 on TopPop, the Dutch pop music program^[12] as well as on the BBC programme Top of the Pops.^[13] It was re-released by Blue as the B-side to "Do You Wanna Dance" in 1980.^[14] The song has been released on a number of Barry Blue compilation CDs such as The Singles Collection,^[15] Dancin' (On A Saturday Night)... Best Of.^[16] and most recently Out of the Blue - 50 Years of Discovery (2021).^[17]

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