Hedgehoppers Anonymous - It's Good News Week

Words and music by Kenneth King. One-hit-wonder protest song recorded by Hedgehoppers Anonymous. Issued on Decca, it charted at number 5 in No.5 hit in September/October 1965. Hedgehoppers Anonymous: Mick Tinsley, John Stewart, Alan Laud, Ray Honeybull and Leslie Dash

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• Hedgehoppers
• Anonymous
• Good
• News
• Week
• Kenneth
• King
• Protest
• Mick
• Tinsley

[BaildonLad]

RAF lads weren't they ? Stationed in Germany

[Parmenides320]

@BaildonLad I read something like that somewhere.

[Parmenides320]

@BaildonLad I read something like that somewhere.

garagehangover. com/?q=Hedgehoppers

en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Hedgehoppers_Anonymou­s

[crawlawayanddie]

i love heavy metal but this shits chilled

[Parmenides320]

@crawlawayanddie I'm assuming that's a good thing. lol

[njva17420]

Great little song. Haven't heard it in years. This version lacks the reference to "birth control" which apparently was too controversial for some back in '65.

[1959oldies]

this is a 60´s protestest song; many others surfaced, like Eve of destruction, Hard rain´s gonna fall, Where have all the flowers gone, Fixing to die....This song was composed by musician, DJ, producer Jonathan King, who had another million-seller with Everyone´s gone to the moon......

[lowe1918]

where are they now

[MrCriticOfAll]

Was'nt Hedgehopping some sort of low level bombing or straffing run?

[beans1308]

hey gray,same here,its not often you meet a bradford lad on tinternet,which part of bradford u from,me shipley.

[paulhamerton1]

@50Emerald he did

[leoretrosi]

thank you i love this song why because in 65 music was fun simple you could

dance, those were the old days miss them.

[GrahamSimons]

Alan Lord (often spelt Laud.... came from my home town!

[mamaduke16]

Known originally as the Trendsetters, this five piece was discovered by producer Jonathan King just as they changed their name to Hedgehoppers, in reference to the fact that the entire band consisted of Royal Air Force pilots (whose reputation for low flying, or "hedge-hopping," was infamous). King suggested the addition of "Anonymous," and set to recording them..

[50Emerald]

I thought Jonathan King of "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" fame had something to do with the production of this song and with Hedgehoppers Anonymous. This is a great song, issued not long after Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" in 1965...