'It's Good News Week' was a chart hit in 1965 for which of the following groups?

'It's Good News Week' is a song and single by the British band Hedgehoppers Anonymous. Written and produced by Jonathan King, it was first released in 1965.

The song is a protest song that comments on the media's obsession with bad news. It reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for 12 weeks. The group released four other tracks before breaking up. Lack of further chart activity leaves them labelled as 'one-hit wonders'. It was issued in the U.S. on Parrot, reaching #48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Two versions of the song were recorded. The original recording had the line 'lots of blood in Asia now, they butchered off the sacred cow, they've got a lot to eat.' At the insistence of the record company, that line was changed to 'families shake the need for gold by stimulating birth control, we're wanting less to eat.' The birth control version was released in the UK. The sacred cow version was released in the USA.

Hedgehoppers Anonymous were a 1960s beat group from the United Kingdom. They formed in November 1963 as The Trendsetters, and became The Hedgehoppers the following year. Jonathan King took over their record production in 1965, and added Anonymous to their name. Band members were Royal Air Force personnel. (Hedgehoppers was RAF slang for low flying aircraft).