Dr Hook (Ray Sawyer) - "Sylvia's Mother"

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Album: "Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show"
Utgitt: 1971
Låtskrivere: Shel Silverstein
Label: CBS ‎– 40 S 64754

From Wiki: "Sylvia's Mother" is a 1972 single by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show and the group's first hit song. It was written by Shel Silverstein, produced by Ron Haffkine and was highly successful in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard singles chart (tied with "Sexy Eyes" from the album Sometimes You Win for the band's best performing song), as well as #1 in Ireland and #2 in the United Kingdom. It spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Australian music charts, making it the 15th ranked single in Australia for 1972; and also reached #1 in South Africa, where it was the 3rd ranked song for the year. It appeared on the group's first album, Dr. Hook.
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (shortened to Dr. Hook in 1975) was an American rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" (both 1972), "Only Sixteen" (1975), "A Little Bit More" (1976), "Sharing the Night Together" (1978), "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (1979), "Better Love Next Time" (1979), and "Sexy Eyes" (1980). In addition to their own material, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show performed songs written by the poet Shel Silverstein.

The band had eight years of regular chart hits in the United States, where their music was played on top-40, easy listening, and country music outlets, and throughout the English-speaking world including the UK, Canada and South Africa. Their music spanned several genres, mostly novelty songs and acoustic ballads in their early years, though their greatest success came with their later material, mostly consisting of disco-influenced soft rock, which the band recorded under the shortened name Dr. Hook.


Ray Sawyer (01.02.1937 - 31.12.2018) var en amerikansk sanger og vokalist med 1970 rocke bandet Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show . Selv om han først og fremst var en backing vokalist og sporadisk perkusjonist på congas eller maracas , sang han hovedrolle på hitlåten deres " The Cover of Rolling Stone " og var en gjenkjennelig tilstedeværelse i bandet på grunn av øyepatchet og cowboyhatten han hadde på seg.
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