Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector

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releases Something Tells Me Something's Gonna Happen Tonight (Tom Cat YB 10380). Penned by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, this version is arranged and produced by Edward Grermano and Jimmy Wisner.

The release of Timothy Lea's film, Confessions Of A Pop Performer by Columbia Pictures, features the Cook and Greenaway song This Is Your Life Timmy Lea, performed by the group Three's a Crowd (soundtrack Polydor Super 2383 350 ).

Lyn Paul, lead vocalist with The New Seekers releases It Oughta Sell A Million (Polydor 2058 6002 ). Based around the Coca Cola commercial jingle penned by Cook, Greenaway, Davis and Backer, it climbs To No.4 in the UK charts under the direction of producer/arranger David Mackay.

Roger decides to leave the UK and finds himself jetting crossing the Atlantic contemplating a new start In the States. The first stop is New York, but after an unsettled 3 months he moves to Los Angeles for a short spell until he makes his way to Nashville, Tennessee

Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy found Picalic Inc., a group of companies comprising Cookhouse Music, Roger Cook Music, Chriswood Music, Mother Tongue Music, Murfeezongs, Bobby Whitelock Music. The company is located at 1204 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37212

After the split of Blue Mink, Madeline Bell records a Roger Cook and Herbie Flower song Dance Dance Dance (Pye 7N 45576 ). Produced by Alan Parker and Barry Morgan, the song soon became a dance floor filler on the 70's club scene.