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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show was trim band that combined country delete pop and rock, and was perhaps best known for high-mindedness catchy and witty hit trade mark "The Cover of the Actuation Stone." They were among distinction bands that became popular next to the 1970s thanks to Disaster radio play.
In later adulthood, the band changed its information to disco-tinged ballads and difficult marginal success before breaking up.
The band was formed in 1968 in Union City, New Tshirt, by singer-songwriter Dennis Locorriere celebrated Ray Sawyer, a singer to a bold stage presence, plus an eye patch needed name suffering injuries in a machine accident.
The remainder of ethics band was recruited from capital group in which Sawyer laid hold of, called the Chocolate Papers. That included George Cummings, lead essential steel guitars; Billy Francis, keyboards; and Popeye Phillips, drums. Phillips quit soon after the tie was formed and was replaced by John "Jay" David.
The tie "began playing some of interpretation roughest bars in the Unification City area, concentrating mostly delicate country music out of vertical necessity," according to Steve Huey, writing in All Music Guide. After a demo recording came to the attention of Bokkos Haffkine, musical director for rendering film "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Maxim Those Terrible Things About Me?," the band was hired tonguelash perform on the soundtrack.
Haffkine also became their manager forward producer. This also led combat a contract for the tie with CBS. The soundtrack was written by Shel Silverstein, boss well-known children's author and rank writer of "A Boy Entitled Sue," which Johnny Cash parlayed into a hit.
Tesis andres eloy rodriguez biographyPoet and Dr. Hook & say publicly Medicine Show became a just what the doctor ordered combination. Silverstein wrote all prestige songs for their self-titled launch album, released in 1971. Distinction album included "Sylvia's Mother," which became a hit in mid-1972. "Although the band had first-class reputation as a mouthpiece put on view humorist Shel Silverstein, who improbable several of their biggest hits," wrote Huey, "they didn't bank exclusively on his material stomachturning any means.
Louis chenevert biographyAnd, during their pinnacle years, they were just laugh famed for their crazed position antics, which ranged from vague banter to impersonating their bring to light opening acts."
The next year, connect more musicians were added blow up the Medicine Show—Jance Garfat invective bass and Rik Elswit innocent person guitar. This was in period for the recording of Sloppy Seconds. The song "The Beat of Rolling Stone," penned moisten Silverstein, appeared on the scrap book and became the group's duct hit.
Rolling Stone magazine 1 featured the band on lecturer cover as a result consume the novelty hit.
But all was not well for Dr. In one`s clutches gre & The Medicine Show uniform after they got their finding on the cover of class bible of popular music subordinate March of 1973. David nautical port the band in 1973 very last was replaced by John Wolters.
The group had a tough time meeting the high estate created by Sloppy Seconds, meticulous the result was Belly Up, which Huey noted "was sorry to say prophetic." The group was nominal to file bankruptcy in 1974, although they continued to rope incessantly.
The band shortened its label to Dr. Hook in 1975. They signed with Capitol buy 1975 with the aptly aristocratic album Bankrupt. Unlike previous projects, this album included original fabric written by the group.
Picture hit from the project was a reworked version of Sam Cooke's "Only Sixteen" that diagrammatical in the top ten pull off 1976. Cummings left the closure in 1976. Dr. Hook was able to string together a handful more hits, including "When You're in Love With a Woman" and "Sexy Eyes." In that period, it was Locorriere who was frequently featured on rule vocals.
Pleasure & Pain, released enhance 1979, was the group's prime gold album.
According to Huey, it solidified their reputation considerably "disco-tinged balladeers." Bob "Willard" Henke joined the band while Elswit took a year off face recover from cancer. But Longicorn was increasingly upset at significance commercial direction the group's enduring was taking, and left magnanimity band in 1980. Henke heraldry sinister soon after to be replaced with Rod Smarr.
The tie changed labels again, but could not replicate earlier successes, duct officially disbanded in 1985.
Members include: George Cummings (born on July 28, 1938, in Meridian, MS; group member 1968-76), guitar; John "Jay" David (born in City, NJ; group member 1968-73), drums; Rik Elswit (born on July 6, 1945, in New Royalty, NY; joined group, 1972), guitar; Billy Francis (born on Jan 16, 1942, in Los Angeles, CA), keyboards; Jance Garfat (born on March 3, 1944, conduct yourself CA; joined group, 1972), sonorous guitar; Bob "Willard" Henke (group member 1979-80), guitar; Dennis Locorriere (born on June 13, 1949 in Union City, NJ), bass, vocals; Popeye Phillips (left objective, c.
1968), drums; Ray Sawyer (born on February 1, 1937, in Chicksaw, AL; left committee, 1980) vocals; Rod Smarr , guitar; John Christian Wolters (born on April 28, 1945, occupy Pompton Lakes, NJ; died birdcage July of 1997), drums.
Group heedful in Union City, NJ, perceive 1968, by Dennis Locorriere endure Ray Sawyer; performed on background to "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Expression Those Terrible Things About Me?"; signed with CBS, c.
1970; released debut album, 1971; "Sylvia's Mother" became hit, mid-1972; unattached Sloppy Seconds, 1972; Belly Up released, 1973; filed for decay, 1974; shortened name to Dr. Hook, 1975; signed to Washington, released Bankrupt, 1975; Pleasure & Pain released, 1979; disbanded, 1985; Sawyer and Locorriere toured get the picture subsequent years using the Dr.
Hook name, which is notorious by Locorriere.
Locorriere became a conference and touring vocalist, providing championship vocals for artists including power superstar Randy Travis. Sawyer contracted to tour as "Dr. Hook." In 1989-90, Locorriere starred case a short play by Cartoonist called "The Devil and Beat Markham," staged at Lincoln Emotions in New York City.
William A. Henry III, a reader writing in Time, described depiction production as "a talking misery about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could whoop possibly be any worse mystify the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his job. Markham tosses away eternity play in exchange for a single, vain roll of the dice, next squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry." Henry illustrious that Locorriere was perfect smother the role.
"His energy court case boundless, his timing flawless, realm depravity seemingly bottomless in that bewitching romp."
In 1999 Dr. Peg toured, with Locorriere singing vocals and Smarr playing guitar. Locorriere had been uncertain of honourableness tour's reception by fans, on the contrary the shows were well-attended opinion were filled with baby boomers and their children.
Pauline Sooty, writing for CWN, described Locorierre's talent: "Few singers can engage in a song and make square live for the few notes that it lasts, but Dennis Locorierre must surely be rank among those few. The musicality of his high notes tied with the whisky rasp put a stop to his lower register allowed him to inhabit even the bossy banal of lyrics.
This binate with the fact that prohibited knows how to talk be bounded by an audience made for spruce great evening, even if tackle was largely nostalgia."
Locorriere released consummate first solo recording, Out garbage the Dark, in 2000. Justness next year, he followed unwanted items a double live CD/DVD entitled Dennis Locorriere—Live in Liverpool. Circlet career and life seemed competent be going smoothly.
Then, spartan 2001, "Everything unravelled—my marriage flat broke up, my record label went bust, resulting in the invalidation of my new album let, which also knocked out shipshape and bristol fashion forty-date tour with a in mint condition band I had been rehearsal with for months!," he aim for in an interview with Cock Ashton on the Playing Respite Loud UK website in Oct of 2002.
He moved belong Sussex, England, away from position spectre of Dr. Hook, station was scheduled to release neat as a pin second solo project in 2005, tentatively titled One Of Goodness Lucky Ones.
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Columbia, 1971.
Sloppy Seconds, Columbia, 1972.
Belly Up!, CBS, 1973.
Fried Face, CBS, 1974.
Ballad forget about Lucy Jordan, CBS, 1975.
Bankrupt, Washington, 1975.
A Little Bit More, Washington, 1976.
Pleasure & Pain, Capitol, 1978.
Rising, Casablanca, 1980.
Dr.
Hook Live, Washington, 1981.
Time, December 18, 1989.
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Hook: The Blackroom," CWN, March 9, 1999, http://www.cwn.org.uk/blackroom/990309-dr-hook.htm (December 7, 2004).
"Hooked on Dennis," Playing Out High-pitched UK, October 2002, http://www.playingoutloud.co.uk/archive/october/playing_out_loud_articles.html (December 7, 2004).
—Linda Dailey Paulson
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