Cook da Books
Cook da Books (also known as Cook the Books, and Da Books) were a British new wave band from Liverpool, England popular in the 1980s. Their success began with politically charged compositions and peaked with pop friendly film soundtrack and commercial releases. The band had a self professed reputation for being fiercely independent but enjoyed major label attention and numerous high profile global performances.
History
Cook da Books formed in 1980 in Fazakerley, Liverpool composed of former members of pub/cabaret circuit groups The Dogems and Brooklyn" two bands untouched by the phenomenon of the city punk and new wave scene but competent musicians with close harmonies gained from the Hilda Fallon Roadshow days similar to other local bands such as Our Kid. The initial line-up was Kevin Kunky Kelly (Guitar/vocals) Peter "Digsy" Deary (vocals, guitar), Owen Moran (bass, vocals), Tony Prescott (keyboards), and John Legget (drums).
They initially gained attention with their acclaimed, and politically charged debut single "Piggie in the Middle 8", whose provocative lyrics about the Toxteth riots were penned by their manager John Smith who secured reggae superstar producer Denis Bovell to produce the track at his Studio80 in London. Bovell had recently had a number two record with Janet Kay's "Silly Games" and Smith played the demo to Bovell and secured his support for producing the track. Smith further secured a deal with Probe records to release the record in the rising independent market. This was the first record ever released on the Probe label, which went on to become successful with many other artistes following this release. Smith also found local photographer John Stoddart for the artwork of the 7" & 12" sleeves, This was his first band session and Stoddart went on to photograph many bands including most notably Frankie Goes to Hollywood through their major success.
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ALBUMS
- Les Incontournables Génériques de ma jeunesse, Volume 1 released: 2011
- Mega 80 released: 2008
- Années 80 : Hits Box released: 2008
- Die Hit-Giganten: One Hit Wonder released: 2008
- Cook De Books released: 2005
- Le Top des Slows released: 2004
- Die ultimative Chart Show: Lovesongs released: 2004
- Die Hits der 80er: Love Edition released: 2004
- All My Loving released: 2003
- Mega 80, Volume 2 released: 2003
- Ulli Wengers One Hit Wonder, Volume 4 released: 2003
- Méga Chansons d'amour released: 2002
- Les Plus Grands Succès de Vladimir Cosma, Volume 2 released: 2002
- One Shot '80, Volume 9 released: 2000
- Méga cinéma released: 2000
- Mega Slows released: 1998
- Mega 80 released: 1998
- Les Plus Belles Chansons released: 1995
- Ronny's Pop Show 9 released: 1987
- La Boum released: 1987
- Die größten SWR1 Filmhits aller Zeiten released:
- La Boum 2 released:
- Burning Hearts: Most Beautiful Sad Songs released:
- Korean Favorite Pop Songs, Volume 2 released:
Les Incontournables Génériques de ma jeunesse, Volume 1
Released 2011- L'Île aux enfants
- Chapi Chapo
- Clémentine
- Bouba
- Candy : Au pays de Candy
- Bécébégé
- Gil & Julie
- Toffsy
- Maya l'abeille
- Heidi
- Rémi sans famille "On m'appelle sans famille"
- Signé Cat's Eyes
- Ballade pour Cosette
- Diplodo
- Dare Dare Motus
- La Chanson des botes
- Mon ami Bisounours
- Biniky, le dragon rose
- Hymne à la vie (Il était une fois la vie)
- Denver, le dernier dinosaure
- Les Entrechats sont là
- Tchaou et Grodo
- Démétan
- Arthur
- Les Minipous
- Les 3 Mousquetaires
- Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours
- Astérix chez les bretons : The Look Out Is Out
- Astérix et la surprise de César : Astérix est là
Die Hit-Giganten: One Hit Wonder
Released 2008- One Night in Bangkok
- I Wonder Why
- Teardrops
- Im Nin' Alu
- Bette Davis Eyes
- Break My Stride
- Walking in Memphis
- (Feels Like) Heaven
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Life in A Northern Town
- Your Eyes
- Rose Garden
- Silver Bird
- Beautiful Sunday
- It's A Real Good Feeling
- Ho Do You Do
- Only You
- Je T'aime Moi Non Plus
- American Pie
- Don't Worry, Be Happy
Cook De Books
Released 2005- Your Eyes
- Music
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- It's a Long Road
- Angel of the Morning
- You're My Everything
- Deep Purple
- Hey Paula
- What a Wonderful World
- Rhythm of the Rain
- April Love
- Tell Laura I Love Her
- Crimson and Clover
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- The Windmills of Your Mind
- Woman in Love
- The Coldest Days of My Life
Le Top des Slows
Released 2004- La mère Michel
- Maman, les p'tits bateaux
- Il était un petit homme
- Un éléphant
- Prom'nons-nous dans les bois
- Meunier, tu dors
- Au clair de la lune
- Dans la forêt lointaine
- Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
- V'là le bon vent
- À la claire fontaine
- Une souris verte
- Il était un petit navire
- Savez-vous planter les choux ?
- Il était une bergère
- Frère Jacques
- À la pêche aux moules
- Ainsi font, font, font
- Sur le pont d'Avignon
- Ah ! Les crocodiles
- Cadet Rousselle
- Le bon roi Dagobert
- Dans les prisons de Nantes
- Une poule sur un mur
- Fais dodo, Colas
- Auprès de ma blonde
- Il pleut, il pleut, bergère
- Lundi matin, l'empereur
- Nous n'irons plus au bois
- Il court, il court, le furet
- La Carmagnole
- Dodo, l'enfant do
- Ne pleure pas Jeannette
- Alouette, gentille alouette
- J'ai du bon tabac
- La Mère Michel (version instrumentale)
- Un éléphant (version instrumentale)
- Dans la forêt lointaine (version instrumentale)
- V'là le bon vent (version instrumentale)
- Il était un petit navire (version instrumentale)
- Savez-vous planter les choux ? (version instrumentale)
- Ainsi font, font, font (version instrumentale)
- Ah ! Les crocodiles (version instrumentale)
- Lundi matin, l'empereur (version instrumentale)
- J'ai du bon tabac (version instrumentale)
Die ultimative Chart Show: Lovesongs
Released 2004- Rock Your Baby
- Sugar Baby Love
- I'd Love You to Want Me
- I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
- Reality
- I'm on Fire
- Juliet
- Only You
- Your Eyes
- Porque Te Vas?
- Love Is All Around
- It's a Heartache
- Living Next Door to Alice
- Goodbye My Love Goodbye
- Ich hab die Liebe geseh'n
- Lieb mich ein letztes Mal
- Ti Amo
- Jenseits von Eden
- Just More
Die Hits der 80er: Love Edition
Released 2004- Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You
- Reality
- Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
- S.O.S.
- Another Heart Breaks
- How Many Lies?
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- Wonderful Life
- It's Over
- Your Eyes
- Go on Forever (OST La Boum)
- Time After Time
- Sign Your Name
- I Won't Hold You Back
- Lass mich Dein Pirat sein
- Heut' Nacht
Mega 80, Volume 2
Released 2003- Femme Que J'aime
- Nuit Sauvage
- Body Physical
- Shouldn't Have to Be Like That
- Je Ne Veux Pas Renter Chez Moi Seule
- You Call It Love (L'etudiante)
- Puissance & Gloire
- Din Daa Daa
- Elle Imagine
- The Lost Opera
- Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
- Les Autres Sont Jaloux
- Aimer D'amour
- Dernier Baiser
- Un Fait Divers (Et Rien De Plus)
- Rock to the Beat
- Mon Coeur Te Dit Je T'aime
- A La Vie, A L'amour
- Si La Vie Est Un Cadeau
- Ce Mec Est Too Much
Méga Chansons d'amour
Released 2002- Everybody's Got to Learn Sometimes
- Do What You Do
- What's a Woman
- Reality
- I'm Not in Love
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Ready to Follow You
- Your Eyes
- You Call It Love
- Lover Why
- Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- Lady in Blue
- My Life
- Bird of Paradise
- Only Love
- Li Giardino Proibito
- Sandy
- Si Lo So
- Hurts to Be in Love
- Brown Eyed Girl
Les Plus Grands Succès de Vladimir Cosma, Volume 2
Released 2002- Le Dîner de cons
- Hello Marylin (Un éléphant ça trompe énormént)
- Your Eyes (La Boum 2)
- La cabra (La Chèvre)
- Le plus beau Métier du monde
- Sirba (Le grand Blond avec une chaussure noire)
- Le Placard (Chaplinesque)
- L'As des as
- Destinée (Le Père Noël est une ordure)
- Les Compères
- Sax Brothers (Nous irons tous au paradis)
- Cuisine et dépendances
- Le Grand Rabbi (Rabbi Jacob)
- Non Piangere (Pleure pas la bouche pleine)
- L'Inspecteur La Bavure
- Go on for Ever (La Boum)
- Le Distrait
- Le Jouet
- L'Année prochaine si tout va bien
- Concerto gastronomique (L'Aile ou la cuisse)
Méga cinéma
Released 2000- Tous les matins du monde
- Seven
- Farinelli
- Independence Day
- Microcosmos
- Star Wars
- Le Colonel Chabert
- Tueurs nés
- Les Acteurs
- Le Fugitif
- Présumé innocent
- Le Patient anglais
- Batman
- Né un 4 juillet
- La Liste de Schindler
- Frankie et Johnny
- Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
- Jurassic Park
- Superman
- Tout ça pour ça
- Les Incorruptibles
- Une pour toutes
- Le Hussard sur le toît
- JFK
- Danse avec les loups
Mega Slows
Released 1998- Only You
- Stand by Me
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- Mad About the Boy
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Rain and Tears
- Lucky Man
- Eye in the Sky (live)
- Many Rivers to Cross
- Clair
- Words
- Moi Vouloir Toi
- Sister Jane
- It's Only Mistery
- Reality
- Ready to Follow You
- Friends
- I'm Not in Love
- I Call Your Name
- Precious Thing
- I Put a Spell on You
- Three Times a Lady
- Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
- Sunny Afternoon
- Say It Ain't So
Mega 80
Released 1998- A caus' des garçons
- Tropique
- Disparue
- T'as le look coco
- Pop Muzik
- Ouragan
- Il est libre Max
- Mise au point
- V.I.P.
- Des gens stricts
- Nuit d'amour
- Walkman
- Comanchero
- Les Yeux de Laura
- Elle est partie
- La Vie la nuit
- Nous deux
- Ready to Follow You
- It's Only Mystery (Thème du film "Subway")
- Cha cha cha
- Dolce vita
- Heartache Avenue
- More Than I Can Bear
- Clouds Across the Moon
- Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
Les Plus Belles Chansons
Released 1995- Reality (B.O. La Boum)
- I know it's a lie (B.O. Les Fugitifs)
- Je n'ai pas dit mon dernier mot d'amour (B.O. La Dérobade)
- Destinée (B.O. Le Père Noël Est Une Ordure)
- L'amour en héritage
- Un souvenir heureux (B.O. Tiroir Secret)
- Puissance et gloire (B.O. Châteauvallon)
- Pour l'amour (B.O. La Chambre des Dames)
- Ballade de Clérambard (B.O. Clérambard)
- Your Eyes (B.O. La Boum 2)
- You call it love (B.O. L'Etudiante)
- Les coeurs brûlés
- L'année prochaine si tout va bien
- Vieni qui (B.O. Les Zozos)
- My life (B.O. Till We Meet Again)
- Laisse-moi rêver (B.O. La Neige Et Le Feu)
- Maybe in time (B.O. La Chèvre)
- En rêvant (B.O. Les Yeux d'Hélène)
- Le ciel, la terre et l'eau (B.O. Alexandre Le Bienheureux)
- La Wally (B.O. La Diva)
Ronny's Pop Show 9
Released 1987- I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
- Walking Down Your Street (remix)
- I Got the Feelin' (It's Over)
- Stand by Me
- Mandolin Rain
- Heartache Away
- Reet Petite (The Sweetest Girl in Town)
- Jack Your Body
- Surrender
- Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
- You're the Voice
- Carrie
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (remix)
- Hold Me
- Trouble
- I Come Undone
- Your Eyes
- Midnight Man
Die größten SWR1 Filmhits aller Zeiten
- A Kind of Magic
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
- Goldeneye
- Ghostbusters
- Eye of the Tiger
- Crocket's Theme
- Car Wash
- You Can Leave Your Hat On
- The Power of Love
- This Is Not America
- Don't You (Forget About Me)
- Slave to Love
- It Must Have Been Love
- Footloose
- Axel F
- Theme From Shaft
- Loco in Acapulco
- With a Girl Like You
- Kokomo
- Reality
Burning Hearts: Most Beautiful Sad Songs
- Torn
- Babe
- Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- Alone
- Empty Rooms
- Just Take My Heart
- Stay Another Day
- Don't Break My Heart
- Who Wants to Live Forever
- Wish You Were Here
- See the Day
- Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
- Your Eyes (From La Boum No. 2)
- Breaking Us in Two
- Forever Young
- I've Been in Love Before
- Das Erste Mal Tat's Noch Weh
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Your Eyes
by: Cook Da BooksYour eyes
Opened wide as I looked your way
Couldn't hide what they meant to say
Feeling lost in a crowded room
It's too soon for a new love
When you smile your eyes show your heart
Lost inside a soul torn apart
Feeling alone with people around
True love is so hard to find now
You think you're so misunderstood
I'd explain if only I could
Something tells me this time it's real
The way that I feel
Your eyes like the blue in the summer skies
Caught my gaze as I looked across
Feeling lost in a magic maze
It's too soon for a new love
You can't hide that look in your eyes
Open wide you seem so surprised
Searching around for somebody new
True love is hard to find now
When you smile your eyes show your heart
I feel mine is falling apart
Don't you see the way that I feel
My loving is real
*Repeat 1
When you're lost your eyes show you how
I should like to know I'm a part
When your eyes shine I'll know you're mine
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