- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to music.
- Father of composer and conductor Gavin Greenaway.
- In 2009, Greenaway was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- He is an English singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook and Tony Burrows.
- As "The Pipkins" he and Tony Burrows reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Charts, No. 7 in Canada (RPM Top Singles), and No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970 with the song written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood 'Gimme Dat Ding'.
- Greenaway took an increasing role in business administration, becoming Chairman of the Performing Right Society in 1983 and, in 1995, taking charge of the European ASCAP office.
- When the British six-piece pop group 'Blue Mink' were formed in 1969, Greenaway was asked to be lead vocalist alongside Madeline Bell; he declined the offer and recommended Roger Cook, who accepted.
- He was briefly a member of Brotherhood of Man, who scored a UK and US top 20 hit with "United We Stand".
- In 1968 Cook and Greenaway announced that they would no longer be recording as a duo but would continue as songwriters.
- With Barry Mason he penned "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" for Tom Jones, which spent ten weeks within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) chart, and went to No. 1 for one week on 26 February 1977.
- The song "Gimme Dat Ding" is a call-and-response duet between a deep, gravelly voice, that of Tony Burrows, and a high tenor, that of Roger Greenaway. The voices are said to represent a piano and a metronome.
- He also wrote advertising jingles for Allied Carpets, Asda and British Gas.
- His compositions have included "You've Got Your Troubles" and the transatlantic million selling songs "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".
- Greenaway is best known for his works with Roger Cook. Both Greenaway and Cook were members of the close harmony group the Kestrels. While on tour they decided to begin writing songs together.
- Cook and Greenaway were the first UK songwriting partnership to be granted an Ivor Novello Award as 'Songwriters of the Year' in two successive years.
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