TONY COLE

Singer and songwriter Branko Bernard Miler better known by his stage name Tony Cole originally worked as a schoolteacher before he made his record debut with The Crestaires on the Pakktel label in 1965 with "Boomerang Baby / It Must Have Been A Dream". He appeared on TV's Bandstand and The Go!! Show a number of times and recorded another single in the mid-sixties as a soloist. These passed largely unnoticed, until ''The Hook'', in June 1973 (a minor hit, spending seven weeks in the Top 100). Cole relocated to the United Kingdom in the late 60s and recorded a couple of singles. His debut album, 'If the Music Stops' (1972), provided two singles. The first, "Suite: Man and Woman / All I Meant to Do", peaked at #97 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second one, "The King Is Dead", was written by Cole under the name, Branko Bernard Miler. It gained interest in the United States, where Billboard's reviewer chose it for their "Radio Action and Pick Singles" section, but it did not chart. 

Cole co-wrote, "Beg, Steal or Borrow", with Graeme Hall and Steve Wolfe. It was performed by the New Seekers for the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, and they finished second. When issued as a single in March 1972, it peaked at #1 in Norway, #2 in United Kingdom, and #5 in Germany

He wrote music for the soundtrack of Take Me High (1973), a film starring Cliff Richard. Dave Thompson of AllMusic described the related album, "Little about it appealed, from its tawdry cover art on to the soulless succession of lightweight [Cole] ballads that were the heart of the soundtrack." Ahead of the film's Australian release, in June 1974, The Australian Women's Weekly's reviewer observed, "it has lots of good [Cole] music (including the title song) but done in a different way and with no choreographed numbers." In 1976 his track, "The King Is Dead", was adapted into French as the single, "Gabrielle", for Johnny Hallyday, which reached #1. It peaked at #20 in Belgium. It returned to the French singles chart in December 2017, where it reached #13. Cole died of a heart attack in his sleep in 2001.

SINGLES

''Boomerang Baby / It Must Have Been A Dream'' 1965 Pakktel
''Beat It / Juliet (#55)'' 1967 Leedon
''The Hook (#60) / If The Music Stops'' 1973 Interfusion

''Scorpio / Hang On, Magdalen'' 1973 Interfusion

ALBUMS

'If The Music Stops' 1972 Interfusion

'Magnificently Mad' 1973 Interfusion

References

Tony Cole (musician) - Wikipedia

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/