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91Ƶ: Skylark91Ƶs B.J. Cook honoured on B.C. 91ƵStarWalk91Ƶ

TODAY IN B.C.: David Foster, Cook last 2 remaining members of 91ƵWildflower91Ƶ band
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Skylark members B. J. Cook and David Foster were presented with a star on the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame91Ƶs StarWalk. (Quinn Bender photo)

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2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the album Wildflower as members B. J. Cook and David Foster were presented with a star on the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame91Ƶs StarWalk.

Host Peter McCully chats with Cook who talks about being a showgirl at The Cave Supper Club in Vancouver, before leaving to play the Elegant Parlour nightclub run by Tommy Chong.

Foster and Cook were members of the Ronnie Hawkins Band, before Cook founded Skylark.

91ƵI suggested that we put our own band together. And this is before we were married,91Ƶ said Cook. 91ƵWe want to be together, so let91Ƶs put a band together. And David said, 91Ƶif you can get Doug Edwards, Steve Pugsley and Cat Hendricks, I91Ƶll put a band together91Ƶ. When we came back, David went to Victoria. I had to stay in Vancouver. They were all available. So, I called David and I said, 91Ƶyou better come back, we91Ƶve got our band.91Ƶ91Ƶ

McCully asked Cook about the origin of the song.

91ƵDave Richardson was David91Ƶs really good friend,91Ƶ said Cook. 91ƵHe was a cop and he used to sit in his patrol car and write lyrics. Then he took it over to Doug Edwards with a stack of lyrics, or poems. Doug looked at Wildflower, and he said, 91ƵI wrote it in 20 minutes91Ƶ. He said, 91ƵI just felt it. I loved it I just thought it was the most beautiful song.91Ƶ91Ƶ

The song 91ƵWildflower91Ƶ has been covered more than 200 times.

91ƵThe combination of David91Ƶs amazing arrangement, he was 23 years old. He was a kid,91Ƶ said Cook. 91ƵAnd the magic of his arrangement of 91ƵWildflower91Ƶ, the beautiful song that it is, and then on top of it, Donnie Gerard91Ƶs magnificent voice. If anybody else could have sung it, I don91Ƶt think it would have been the hit that it was. I think the combination of all those things made it a hit record.91Ƶ

Cook talks about a run-in with Johnny Cash in her early nightclub days, dating Robin Williams and her daughter Amy Foster91Ƶs success writing songs for Michael Buble.

The podcast contains the song 91ƵWildflower91Ƶ, as recorded by Skylark.

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of Canada91Ƶs coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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