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This one still brings a tear to my eye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPnLK1WnXxg
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Thanks for that John :wink:

41 years ago?..sheesh, seems like yesterday...

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I was shock when I clicked on the link further down

How they've changed :shock:

At least they are still around...sadly not the case with many of their peers.

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Wonderful memories - 41 years? was I that young?/

BTW John - Without googling who wrote it?


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Thanks John!

I was lucky enough to see them in concert around 1969 - one of the most entertaining concerts I have ever attended. I was not a big fan of theirs before that concert but became a huge fan after.

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Hi Leif

John Denver wrote that...which is why he's a 'guest' on the vids..

From around the same time, 'It's Good News Week' by Hedgehoppers Anonymous..RAF guys I think..anyone remember that?

Derek :wink:

edit: just found the lyrics:
http://www.lyricstrax.com/hedghoppers-a ... -week.html
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Sorry Derek , thanks for playing

It was Gordon Lightfoot :)

Hedgehopper's Anonymous - >> amazing I downloaded that from Limewire
about three months ago :smile: They were a bunch of RAF types werent they? Ill see your "its good news week" and raise you a Millie "My boy lollipop"


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John Denver's 'plane' song was

"Leaving on a Jet Plane"
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:doho:

..now you can see why I don't enter competitions.. :lol: :lol:

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Post by rich byrne »

DelP wrote:Hi Leif

John Denver wrote that...which is why he's a 'guest' on the vids..

From around the same time, 'It's Good News Week' by Hedgehoppers Anonymous..RAF guys I think..anyone remember that?

Derek :wink:

edit: just found the lyrics:
http://www.lyricstrax.com/hedghoppers-a ... -week.html
it was Jonathan King, unfortunately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqqS6MMknM
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