Roger Cook

He hands one to Tom Petty, and he takes one, and they just go hang out in the garden all day playing ukuleles.

Well, you know our friend Roger Cook, Jason.

That's so cool.

So I used to represent a writer by the name of Roger Cook, and Roger Cook wrote, I'd like to teach the world.

to sing and he also wrote a long cool woman in a black dress yeah he wrote that and he wrote uh he also wrote the don williams song i believe so this is roger cook right roger cook writes everything on a ukulele everything i

played a show with him one time and he had the best opening line he was like uh i washed my guitar and uh i dried my guitar in the dryer last night and this is what came out his ukulele

everything but we we were talking about um we were talking about graham parsons growing up with his grandparents next door to us on may's place and uh delk just remember this story yeah about graham parsons

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In 1970, the Hollies released Gasoline Alley Bread.

This was written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, and it had the trademark harmonies that you would expect from them.

And it was actually recorded after the departure of Graham Nash.

did okay, particularly overseas.

The next song on this album I know has special meaning to you.

Wake Up, Wake Up, written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenway, recorded March 8th, 1968.

So on the same day that Cliff recorded Lonely Girl and And Me, I'm on the Outside Now, he also recorded Wake Up, Wake Up.

You couldn't get any different.

Episode 6 played Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart.

Well, that was written by Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook.

Obviously made famous by Gene Pitney.

Scream Lord, Such and the Savages did The Train Kept a-Rolling.

Unlike Peter and Gordon, they don't use their real names.

They were actually songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, but they did have a number of hits as this duo.

The song title is, how can I put it? It's encouraging everyone loved up to get together.

Now, what have we got on the A-side, B-side?

Last person to get it right was Dave in Bristol.

That's a duo, and as Dave pointed out, from Bristol, using first names, but they weren't their real names.

They were really Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, encouraging people to get together in the title of this song.

But who are they and what's the song called?