Darryl Cotton
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Darryl Cotton (born 4 September 1949 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian pop singer, television presenter and actor. Darryl is best known as as a founding member of Australian rock group, Zoot in 1968, along with Rick Springfield, Beeb Birtles and Rick Brewer.
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Following Zoot, Darryl ventured overseas, basing himself in Los Angeles where he worked consistently as a singer/songwriter and performing with such artists as Olivia Newton-John, The Osmonds, Shaun Cassidy and Cliff Richard. His songwriting credits include Donny Osmond & Marie Osmond, Engelbert Humperdinck and The New Seekers.
In 1978, Darryl returned to Australia to release his solo single, "Don't Let It Get to You" which appeared on the album, Best Seat In The House. Various successful solo singles followed, including the self-penned national top ten single, "Same Old Girl", which earned him a Countdown award for Best Solo Male Performance in 1980, exactly ten years after Zoot had the same award for a group.
Darryl has acted on the Australian soap opera The Young Doctors and appeared in the lead role of a successful stage production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
From 1984 Darryl was a co-host on Network Ten's The Early Bird Show, a popular Saturday morning variety show for children. He also hosted a program called Summer Rock on Adelaide's Nine Network.
Later, Darryl released two albums, Rock'n'Good Fun, and a children's album, Just for Kids.
In 1989, Darryl was awarded the Advance Australia Award for his services to the community, acknowledging his keen support and assistance to numerous charities and public organisations.
Darryl recently featured in an Australian album by a band named "Blooduster". He featured the rock/death metal song by the name of "I love the pills", where he is heard to tell people to get their pills out and throw them up onto the stage. Good stuff!!
