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Bill Cook

real name William Stovall Cook

Bill Cook is credited on 690 releases across 204 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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690

Credits

204

Albums

8

Decades active

91

In collections

Biography

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Influential US (Newark, New Jersey) disc jockey, television personality and songwriter born November 13, 1913 in Douglass, Crossroads, Alabama and died May 7th 1984 in Orange, NJ. He discovered and managed Roy Hamilton. He is known for writing "I'll Come Running Back To You" for Sam Cooke.

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Credited work

690 releases · 204 albums · active 1951–2025

  • Performance · 704
  • Other credits · 26
  • Production · 5

Studios: Whisky A Go Go · RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Gold Star Studios · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville

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