Career
John Denver recorded one of Cooper"s songs, "Catch Another Butterfly". Cooper hosted a country music show called "Orange Blossom Special", from 1969 until the early 1980s, on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Nottingham. Cooper was registered blind, his interest in music began when he formed a group with a bunch of fellow partially sighted friends while working at a home for the blind.
The title track was tipped as a Christmas number one by bookmakers.
Cooper was the father of the author, Sheila Hocken.