Roger Cook / Roger Greenaway

Teaming for the first time in English harmony group The Kestrels, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway began writing songs, scoring with “You’ve Got Your Troubles” for The Fortunes in 1965. They went on to become one of the top songwriting teams of the 1960s and ‘70s, thanks to hits like the Hollies “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress,” White Plains’ “My Baby Loves Lovin’,” the New Seekers’ “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing” and The Fortunes’ “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.” After their split in 1975, Cook wrote country hits like Crystal Gayle’s “Talking In Your Sleep” and Don Williams “I Believe In You” and became the first Englishman inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Greenaway took on administrative roles including chairman of the Performing Right Society.

Key songs in the Cook/Greenaway catalog include “Doctor’s Orders,” “Green Grass,” “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” and “You’ve Got Your Troubles.”

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