Murray James Cook, AM (born 30 June 1960) is an Australian vocalist, songwriter, musician, and guitarist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the children's band The Wiggles. Cook was also a regular guest on the Australian TV show Spicks and Specks, with his good friend, host Adam Hills.

Career

Early musical projects

Cook played the guitar in the late 1980s bands The Transistors and Finger Guns before joining the Sydney-based band Bang Shang a Lang. (He continued to play for Bang Shang a Lang in Sydney, when not on tour with The Wiggles.)

The Wiggles

When things did not work out in the music field for Cook, he returned to university and studied early childhood education at Macquarie University, where he met Anthony Field and Greg Page and formed The Wiggles in 1991. Cook worked as a preschool teacher for two years before the success of The Wiggles forced him to quit. According to Field, Cook would have been content to "continue teaching and perhaps move into an academic role in the field. He knows his stuff and is simply great with children".

George Earl Murray Cook (born December 6, 1940, at Sackville, New Brunswick) is a Canadian scout and former front office executive in Major League Baseball. He was the general manager of three MLB teams: the New York Yankees (1983–84); the Montreal Expos (1984–87); and the Cincinnati Reds (1988–89).

Pirates and Yankees

Cook began his baseball career as an infielder in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system in 1962. He then became a scout and farm system administrator, serving Pittsburgh as assistant director of Minor League operations (1972–77), then director of scouting (1977–82). He was named the Yankees' scouting director in January 1983.

Yankees