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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 Fame鈥檚 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.

鈥淚 suggested that we put our own band together. And this is before we were married,鈥� said Cook. 鈥淲e want to be together, so let鈥檚 put a band together. And David said, 鈥榠f you can get Doug Edwards, Steve Pugsley and Cat Hendricks, I鈥檒l put a band together鈥�. 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, 鈥榶ou better come back, we鈥檝e got our band.鈥欌��

McCully asked Cook about the origin of the song.

鈥淒ave Richardson was David鈥檚 really good friend,鈥� said Cook. 鈥淗e 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, 鈥業 wrote it in 20 minutes鈥�. He said, 鈥業 just felt it. I loved it I just thought it was the most beautiful song.鈥欌��

The song 鈥榃ildflower鈥� has been covered more than 200 times.

鈥淭he combination of David鈥檚 amazing arrangement, he was 23 years old. He was a kid,鈥� said Cook. 鈥淎nd the magic of his arrangement of 鈥榃ildflower鈥�, the beautiful song that it is, and then on top of it, Donnie Gerard鈥檚 magnificent voice. If anybody else could have sung it, I don鈥檛 think it would have been the hit that it was. I think the combination of all those things made it a hit record.鈥�

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

The podcast contains the song 鈥榃ildflower鈥�, as recorded by Skylark.

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