Roger Cook

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Roger Frederick Cook (born 19 August 1940) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer who has written several hit songs for other recording artists.

He has also had a fruitful recording career in his own right. He is best known for his friendships with Roger Greenaway.

"You've Got Your Troubles" and the transatlantic million-selling songs "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress were among Cook's co-compositions.

They were the first UK songwriting team to win an Ivor Novello Award in two years as 'Songwriters of the Year,' in 1997. Cook was the first and so far only British writer to enter the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.'

Early life

In Fishponds, Bristol, England, Cook was born. The majority of the hits he's written have been written in partnership with Roger Greenaway, who he first met while he was a member of a close harmony group, the Kestrels. Continuing to perform as a pair, Cook and Greenaway had a brief but fruitful recording career between 1965 and 1967, scoring hits as David and Jonathan, including a cover version of Beatles' "Michelle" and their own "Lovers of the World Unite." They also penned their first hit as songwriters for others in 1965, with "You've Got Your Troubles," a UK number 2 and US number 7 for the Fortunes.

Cook is best known as a member of Blue Mink, sharing lead vocals with Madeline Bell. The band was formed in 1969 as primarily a producer's outfit, bringing together a large number of top session musicians, including Herbie Flowers (bassist), Alan Parker (keyboardist), Roger Coulam (keyboardist), and Barry Morgan (drummer), who were simultaneously members of the jazz / rock / big band fusion outfit CCS.

Blue Mink's Top 20 entries in the last four years, mainly written by Cook, the most popular being "Melting Pot" and "Banner Man" before they disbanded in 1974.

Cook performed backing vocals on some of Elton John's earliest recordings, as well as recording albums as a solo artist, including Study (1972), Minstrel in Flight (1976), and Alright (1976).

"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" (The New Seekers), "Something Older, Better Times" (The Congregation), "I'd Like To Teach My Heart") "I'd Like to Teach the World (Whichichman), "To Me" (Cliff Richard), "I'd Like to Teach the World" (Johnny); "Something's Best Belief" (The Fort), "Get Your Baby, "I' (The Dr. Don Williams, Cook co-wrote "I Just Want to Dance with You" with John Prine; Prine recorded the song in 1986 for his album German Afternoons, and George Strait's it was a big hit for George Strait in 1998.

Cook and Greenaway also wrote "High 'N' Dry" (Cliff Richard), the B-side of "Congratulations," the runner-up song for the UK Eurovision Song Contest in 1968, and Cook and Greenaway wrote "High 'N' Dry" (Cliff Richard).

Cook moved to the United States and settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where he made more hits including "Talking in Your Sleep" (Crystal Gayle, first recorded by Marmalade) and "Love Is on a Roll" (Don Williams). He produced The Nashville Album in 1977, a mark by Chip Hawkes, who had just left the Tremeloes (but would rejoin the group a few years later). Pic-A-Lic is also owned by him, as the bestselling songwriter Ralph Murphy founded a publishing company.

Hugh Cornwell and guitarist Andrew West, both former Stranglers players, collaborated in 1992 to produce CCW, a compilation. Later, he moved to writing for the stage, and he's appeared in two musicals, Beautiful and Damned, based on Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and his wife Zelda, as well as Don't You Rock Me Daddio, which was published in 1957 at a time of the skiffle age with Joe Brown.

Cook was the first (and so far only) British songwriter to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997.

Katie Cook's daughter, Katie, is a host/presenter for cable network CMT.

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