Cook And Greenaway
Sons of Bristol, England, Roger Cook (b. 19 August 1940) and Roger Greenaway (b. 23 August 1938) sang with the Kestrels, a close harmony pop group whose easy professionalism guaranteed, if not hit parade placings, then regular employment on mid-'60s package tours and variety seasons. Setting themselves up in London as session musicians and songwriters, the pair's tenacity paid off when You've Got Your Troubles charted for the Fortunes in 1965. This established them as a middle-of-the-road hit factory (sometimes in collaboration with other writers) with a knack for infectious and hummable melodies with lyrics more impressive in sound than meaning. Their compositions included Softly Whispering I Love You ( Congregation), Home Lovin' Man ( Andy Williams), My Baby Loves Lovin’ (White Plains) and 1972's extraordinary success, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (the New Seekers). As David And Jonathan, the two Rogers themselves scored in 1966's UK Top 20 twice with a cover of the Beatles’ Michelle and their own Lovers Of The World Unite but, with the failure of subsequent discs (including Softly Whispering I Love You), they ceased public appearances as a duo. They then functioned separately as occasional recording artists—as instanced by Cook's STUDY album and Greenaway's 1970 smash with Gimme Dat Ding (as one of the Pipkins)—this was incidental to the team's composition and production work for others acts for which Cookaway Music was formed. With no existence beyond recording and television studios, some Cookaway acts (Congregation, Harley Quinne) were created simply to front specific projects. The most enduring of these was Blue Mink, assembled in 1969 with Cook and Madeline Bell as lead vocalists for a four-year chart run, mostly with Cook-Greenaway numbers. During this period, the team illuminated commercial breaks on British television with jingles extolling the virtues of Typhoo Tea, Woodpecker Cider and other products. Nevertheless, Greenaway and Cook, without rancour, were no longer composing together by 1975. The following year, Cook alone supervised sessions for the Chanter Sisters (for whom he and Herbie Flowers wrote Side Show) and Nana Mouskouri and 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle) by the Rimshots’ was attributed only to him. Disgruntled with the British tax system—he migrated to Nashville to infiltrate the country market, penning US country number 1's for such as Crystal Gayle (Talking In Your Sleep) and Don Williams (I Believe In You and Love Is On A Roll), all published by his own Cook House company. 
Greenaway also came up with a country number 1 for Gayle with It's Like We Never Said Goodbye in 1980, but it was business as usual continuing to compose advertising jingles for such companys as Allied Carpets, Asda and British Gas, and a creative hand in post-Cook hits such as those of the Drifters, David Dundas, Our Kid, Dana and Claude Francois. In 1983, Greenaway was appointed chairman of Britain's Performing Rights Society. 
In 1992 Cook teamed up with Hugh Cornwall (Stranglers) and guitarist Andy West to release CCW on the UFO label, under the monicker Cornwall, Cook & West.