Ray Sawyer Of Dr Hook Fame Dead at 81

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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show or later on shortened to just Dr. Hook wasn't that well known in the UK although they did score a big hit with Sylvia's Mother back in the early 1970s and later on at the end of the 1970s with When Your In Love With A Beautiful Woman but as far as I can remember they didn't do much else in the UK. Ray was the obvious focal point in the band back in the early 1970s wearing a cowboy hat and wearing a eye patch over his right eye but other than that there wasn't that much else about the band that stood out. Ray was 81 when he died interesting?.

"It was still possible to pick up a BEST OF DR.HOOK cd at HMV in London recently for £2.99p which is below budget price and almost giving it away free!!."
 
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R.I.P Ray, you'll be missed!:rip:

Dr. Hook with Ray Sawyer in front was the most popular band in the countryrock genre in the 70s and 80s here in Denmark. Their hits like 'Sylvias Mother', 'The Cover of the Rolling Stone', 'A Little Bit More' and 'When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman' was their most popular songs in the 70s, I remember. One of their legendary concerts was played at Roskilde Rockfestival west of Copenhagen in 1976. There was a heatwave that year and the concert went out a bit unrestrained because most of the fans dropped all their clothes in the heatwave. And with this comment from Ray "If you can do it, then we can do it as well', and then Ray and the other bandmembers dropped all their clothes, and played their last 3 songs only in socks. It became a huge frontpage story.
Ray Sawyer was very popular over decades and knew 'almost every corner of Denmark' as he said in an interview in 2011.

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Ray Sawyer in Holstebro(<--A lil town with only one bathroom and a pub), Denmark 2011

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He was a big rock singer,ha had golden fingers,he was loved everywhere he went.

He sang about beauty and he sang about truth at $10,000 a show.
 

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