Artist
Dr. Hook
Dr. Hook is a rock artist from New Jersey, USA formed in 1968. 31 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · New Jersey, USA · Best rock albums
- 31
- Releases
- 1972–2023
- Active years
- 1968
- Formed
Artist
Dr. Hook is a rock artist from New Jersey, USA formed in 1968. 31 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · New Jersey, USA · Best rock albums
Most popular
Greatest Hits
1980 · 10 tracks
Pleasure & Pain
1978
Bankrupt
1975
A Little Bit More
1976
Sometimes You Win
1979
Dr. Hook Collection
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Dr. Hook Live, Vol. 1
2023
Dr. Hook Live, Vol. 2
2023
With Love
2014
All The Best
2012
Alive In America
2011
Essential (Version 2011)
2011
Dr. Hook - The Best Of
2009
Love Songs
2006
Makin' Love And Music (The 1976 - 79 Recordings)
2004
Premium Gold (Int'l Only)
1996
Sharing The Night Together
1996
20 Great Love Songs
1996
Completely Hooked
1992
Greatest Hits (And More)
1987
Players in the Dark
1982
Rising
1980
Makin' Love And Music
1977
Making Love & Music
1977
Ballad of Lucy Jordan
1975
Belly Up!
1973
Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
1972
Sylvia's Mother
1972
Sloppy Seconds
1972
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, shortened in 1975 to Dr. Hook, was an American rock band, formed around Union City, New Jersey. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of the Rolling Stone", "A Little Bit More" and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman". 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 both the U.S. and the UK, and greatest success with their later gentler material, as Dr. Hook. The founding core of the band consisted of three Southerners who had worked together in a band called "The Chocolate Papers", George Cummings, Ray Sawyer and Billy Francis. They had played the South, up and down the East Coast, and into the Midwest, before breaking up. Cummings, who moved to New Jersey with the plan of forming a new band, brought back Sawyer to rejoin him. They then took on future primary vocalist, Jersey native Dennis Locorriere, at first as a bass player. Francis, who had returned South after the Chocolate Papers broke up, returned to be the new band's keyboardist. When told…
