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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.
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McCully asked Cook about the origin of the song.
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Cook talks about a run-in with Johnny Cash in her early nightclub days, dating Robin Williams and her daughter Amy Foster含羞草研究社檚 success writing songs for Michael Buble.
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