Bill Cook
Musician
Best known for
Songwriter
Bill Cook was a Newark disc jockey, television personality, and songwriter who discovered and managed the singer Roy Hamilton, and wrote “You Can Have Her” — a rhythm-and-blues hit that bluegrass bands later took up as their own.
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- Worked as an influential disc jockey and television personality in Newark, New Jersey.
- Discovered and managed Roy Hamilton.
- Wrote “You Can Have Her,” a hit single for Hamilton in 1961.
- The song crossed into bluegrass through J.D. Crowe and the New South, who recorded it on Bluegrass Evolution (1977).
