Roger Cook - Songwriter

The Romantic Egoists


Blue Mink releases the Cook and Flowers song, You're The One (TGT 119 Click for audio clip). It's their first release for Target Records.
The Wurzels release Farmer Bills Cowman (EMI 2637 Click for audio clip). This is an adapted version of the Cook and Greenaway song I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman Click for audio clip  recorded originally by Whistling Jack Smith. This new version climbs to No.32 in the UK charts. The song is produced by Bob Barrat with musical arrangements by Ed Welch.
Carl Wayne from The Move releases A Little Give, A Little Take (Target TGT 125), penned by Tony Macaulay and Roger Greenaway. The flip side is a version of the Andy William's hit Home Lovin' Man Click for audio clip, penned by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway and Tony Macaulay.
Blue Mink release Lindsey De-Paul's and Roger Greenaway's song Five Minute Wonder (Target TGT 127).
Roger buys an old farmhouse in Nashville. It is full of empty bookshelves. He visits "Ellers" bookshop to buy books to fill up the shelves. He notices a large 12"x12" book in the front window called The Romantic Egoists. On the front cover is a picture of American author F.Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. He thought that it would make a nice coffee table piece and buys it for $20. He takes the book home and becomes engrossed in the contents which portray the lives and exploits of Scott and Zelda Click for video clip
Chip Hawkes (formerly of The Tremeloes) is greeted at Nashville's international airport by his new producer Roger Cook. They go directly to Jack Tracks studios where his new album is going to be cut. The album is released in March entitled 'Nashville' (RCA PL25044).