ROGER COOK – The Man Who Taught The World To Sing. An Interview With One Of The World’s Greatest Modern Songwriters And Half Of The Most Successful And Prolific Songwriting Team With Roger Greenaway – Connecting Podcasts with Listeners & Subscribers From All Over the World!

ROGER COOK – The Man Who Taught The World To Sing. An Interview With One Of The World’s Greatest Modern Songwriters And Half Of The Most Successful And Prolific Songwriting Team With Roger Greenaway

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During his lengthy international songwriting career ROGER COOK has had more than 80 top 30 hits including classics such as Something s Gotten Hold Of My Heart Gene Pitney Something Tells Me Cilla Black Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress The Hollies and You ve Got Your Troubles The Fortunes However Roger is perhaps best known for his song I d Like To Teach The World To Sing which was recorded by the New Seekers and became the theme song for a long-running series of Coca-Cola commercials Starting out with co-songwriter Roger Greenaway in the early sixties the two Rogers were persuaded in 1965 by the wife of Beatles producer George Martin to record under the names of David amp Jonathan George Martin subsequently produced David amp Jonathan s first major hit Michelle written by the Beatles which stormed into the charts in the States in 1966 This with one of their own songs Lovers Of The World Unite once again produced by George Martin put David amp Jonathan in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in the space of a few short months David and Jonathan split up in 1968 and in late 69 Roger Cook was invited to join a new band called Blue Mink along with American singer Madeline Bell Blue Mink s first number Melting Pot written by Cook and Greenaway reached number 3 in the UK charts in March 1969 and throughout the early 70s Blue Mink had 4 more top 20 hits with songs penned by Roger In the mid 70 s Roger moved to Nashville and turned his talent to writing country songs His remarkable success in Nashville includes songs such as Talking In Your Sleep Crystal Gayle I Believe In You Don Williams One Night At A Time George Strait which remained at the number 1 spot on the Billboard charts for five weeks in a row Incredibly this was followed in short order by another George Strait smash I Just Want To Dance With You nbsp He s the only British member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and he is a fabulous chat Please join me to hear about all of Roger Cook s successes and his advice for budding song writers If you d like to learn more about Roger head to my website www abreaathoffreshair com au or to Roger s website http www rogercook com Please feel free to contact me with any requests or comments sandy abreathoffreshair com au Or through my facebook page https www facebook com SandyKayePresents Instagram https www instagram com sandykayepresents Or twitter https twitter com sandykpresents Click here to visit this podcast episode