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Roger Cook co-wrote the Fortunes hit singles "You've Got Your Troubles", "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" and "Freedom Come, Freedom Go". He even suggested that they recorded "Storm in a Teacup", written by Lynsey de Paul and Ron Roker which was to be their last U.K. chart success.

In 1997, Cook became the first and so far only British songwriter to enter the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

As a performer Cook is best remembered as a member of Blue Mink, sharing lead vocals with Madeline Bell. The group was formed in 1969, primarily as a producer's outfit, featuring a wealth of top session musicians including Herbie Flowers (bassist), Alan Parker (guitarist), Roger Coulam (keyboardist) and Barry Morgan (drummer), who were simultaneously members of the jazz / rock / big band fusion outfit CCS, another mainly recording act.

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

Cook also sang backing vocals on some of the earliest recordings by Elton John.

He is best known for his collaborations with Roger Greenaway. Cook's co-compositions have included "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".

Cook and Greenaway had a brief but successful recording career between 1965 and 1967 as David and Jonathan, scoring hits with a cover version of the Beatles' "Michelle", and their own "Lovers of the World Unite".

He also opened a publishing company with accomplished songwriter Ralph Murphy named Pic-A-Lic.

Roger Cook is an English singer, songwriter and record producer, who has written many hit records for other recording artists.

In 1975 Cook moved to the US and settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where he produced more hits including "Talking in Your Sleep" (Crystal Gayle in 1978, first recorded by Marmalade) and "Love Is on a Roll" (Don Williams).

In 1992 he joined former Stranglers member Hugh Cornwell and guitarist Andrew West to release an album, CCW.

He has also had a successful recording career in his own right.

In 1977 he produced The Nashville Album, a record by Chip Hawkes, who had recently left the Tremeloes (but would rejoin the group a few years thereafter).

He and Roger Greenaway were the first UK songwriting partnership to win an Ivor Novello Award as 'Songwriters of the Year' in two successive years.

In the 90's he turned to writing for the stage and he has worked on two musicals, "Beautiful and Damned", based on the lives of Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, in collaboration with Les Reed; and "Don't You Rock Me Daddio", set in 1957 at the height of the skiffle age, with Joe Brown.