Henry Gross and Roger Cook Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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GGACP celebrates the birthday of Brooklyn-born songwriter-recording artist Henry Gross (“Shannon”) with this ENCORE of a 2021 interview with Henry and British-born singer-songwriter Roger Cook (“Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”). In this episode, Henry and Roger share tales from their seven decades in the music business and talk about playing mob-owned joints, forming doo-wop groups, opening for the Beatles (and Benny Hill!), being inspired by Jimi Hendrix and hearing their songs on the radio for the first time. Also, Casey Kasem blows his cool, George Martin teams with Peter Sellers, Henry becomes the youngest artist to perform at Woodstock and Roger writes a jingle that becomes a worldwide sensation. PLUS: Sha Na Na! “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman”! The comedy of Jackie Vernon! Steve Coogan sends up Blue Mink! And Henry and Roger remember the late, great John Prine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey, and this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host, Frank Santopadre.
0:28.6	And tonight, we are pleased to have two terrific guests.
0:35.2	One of them is Roger Cook, who is a musician, singer, producer, former pantomime
0:43.8	artist, and one of pop and country music's most prolific and successful songwriters. Writing or co-writing memorable hit songs, including You've Got Your Troubles.
1:02.0	Here comes that rainy day feeling.
1:05.0	Long, cool woman in a black dress.
1:09.0	My baby loves loving. And the Coca-Cola jingle turned into an
1:15.5	international sensation. I'd like to teach the world to sing. His songs have been covered by
1:24.2	the likes of Johnny Cash, Dusty Springfield, Bing Crosby, Fett Midler, Neil Diamond,
1:34.7	Pechula Clark, the Drifters, Gene Pitney, and his late great friend John Prime.
1:42.5	In the mid-1970s, he relocated to Nashville and enjoyed a second career
1:51.6	as a writer of country hits, including Don Williams, I Believe in You, and Crystal Gales talking in your sleep, and George Strait's one night at a time,
2:08.3	among others.
2:11.3	He's a member of the National Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and the first Englishman
2:22.5	to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
2:30.5	And our other guest, Henry Gross, is a Jew.
2:39.9	That's all that matters to me.
2:43.2	I mean, I guess you wrote the saying whatever.
2:46.9	Yeah, that's right.
2:47.7	But you're a Jew.
2:48.9	That's right.
2:49.7	Does anybody need more coffee?
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