Roger Cook - Songwriter
Blue Mink

Blue Mink


Cilla Black releases Conversations (Parlophone R 5785 Click for audio clip). Penned by Cook, Greenaway and Jerry Lordon it climbs to No.7 in The UK charts Click for video clip
Hank Marvin of The Shadows releases Sacha (Columbia DB 8601 Click for audio clip) penned by Cook, Greenaway and Jerry Lordan. The number is arranged and produced by Nick Ingman and Norrie Paramor. Hank follows with another Cookaway song, Morning Star (Columbia DB 8693 Click for audio clip).
British group Blue Mink's Roger Coulam contacts female vocalist Madeline Bell to see if she is available to add vocals to some of their songs. Roger Greenaway was also approached to join but declined and suggested that Roger Cook would be a suitable candidate. 2 days later Roger Cook was approached by Roger Coulam to join. He takes up the offer Click for video clip
The on-stage trouser splitter P.J. Proby (banned by the BBC) releases Today I Killed A Man I Didn't Know (Liberty LBF 15280 Click for audio clip) penned by Cook and Greenaway. Taken from his album Three Week Hero (Liberty LBS 83219) the number is produced by Family Dogg's Steve Rowland and John Paul Jones.
Cook and Greenaway's Melting Pot, a call for racial unity, is recorded and released by Blue Mink (Philips BF1818 Click for audio clip). It climbs to No.3 in the UK charts.
Roger Cook helps form the SODS society (Society of Distinguished Songwriters).
Cook and Greenaway are awarded 'Radio Jingle Of The Year' in the States, with their Coca Cola jingle In between The Heartaches And The Crying performed by Ray Charles Click for audio clip