Desmond Cox

English songwriter of popular songs in the 1930s-40s. He had a long-term songwriting partnership with [a=Harold Elton Box].

[b]Not the same as English singer/songwriter [a=Des Cox].[/b]

Born 1903 in London, UK. Died 1966.
Cox was the co-owner of Box and Cox publications, a music publisher based in London's Denmark Street in Soho. Their greatest hit was "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts". Box and Cox wrote under many pseudonyms, sometimes a new name for just one song.