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Songs with an aviation connection
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 09:08
by calypso
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 14:40
by DelP
Thanks for that John
41 years ago?..sheesh, seems like yesterday...
Derek :sad:
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 14:48
by Garry Russell
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.
Garry
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 17:44
by DispatchDragon
Wonderful memories - 41 years? was I that young?/
BTW John - Without googling who wrote it?
Leif
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 18:11
by nigelb
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.
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 18:14
by DelP
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
edit: just found the lyrics:
http://www.lyricstrax.com/hedghoppers-a ... -week.html
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 23:42
by DispatchDragon
Sorry Derek , thanks for playing
It was Gordon Lightfoot
Hedgehopper's Anonymous - >> amazing I downloaded that from Limewire
about three months ago
They were a bunch of RAF types werent they? Ill see your "its good news week" and raise you a Millie "My boy lollipop"
Leif
Posted: 04 Aug 2007, 07:50
by jps
John Denver's 'plane' song was
"Leaving on a Jet Plane"
Posted: 04 Aug 2007, 10:46
by DelP
:doho:
..now you can see why I don't enter competitions..
Derek
Posted: 04 Aug 2007, 12:56
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
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