Sing The Songs Of Shel Silverstein Plus - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

This selection, compiled by Pete Macklin, consists of the first three Dr Hook And The Medicine Show’s albums (Dr Hook, Sloppy Seconds and Belly Up) along with two Shel Silverstein albums (Boy Named Sue and Freakin' At The Freakers Ball). Silverstein wrote all the songs for the Dr Hook and Sloppy Seconds albums, and Dr Hook And The Medicine Show were effectively the backing band for the Freakin' album. The Boy Named Sue album is the "plus" in this package. Most people know Dr Hook And The Medicine Show for their hugely successful singles "When You're In Love With a Beautiful Woman" and "Sexy Eyes" from the late 70s but the band had already been going nearly 10 years by then in various incarnations, Ray Sawyer who passed away in 2018 being the one constant. Whilst the first two albums did very well, Belly Up was not as successful. With the exception of that album, all the others have been available previously on CD but this is the first time they have been brought together in this fantastic value 2CD compilation. Founding member Dennis Locorriere reconvened the band with a new line-up for their 50th Anniversary during 2021 and 2022. Currently Locorriere's version of Dr Hook is made up of John Maher, Michelle Cordelli, Damien Cooper, Tim Bye, Jon Poole and Ryan Farmery.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Sylvia's Mother
2. Sing Me a Rainbow
3. Hey, Lady Godiva
4. Kiss It Away
5. When She Cries
6. Judy
7. Mama, I'll Sing One Song For You Sloppy Seconds
8. Freakin' At the Freakers' Ball
9. If I'd Only Come and Gone
10. Carry Me, Carrie
11. The Things I Didn't Say
12. Get My Rocks Off
13. Last Mornin'
14. I Can't Touch the Sun
15. Queen of the Silver
16. Turn On the World
17. Stayin' Song
18. The Cover of Rolling Stone
19. Lookin For Pussy
20. Acapulco Goldie
21. Penicillin Penny
22. Put a Little Bit On Me
23. Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Goupie
24. The Wonderful Soup Stone
25. The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

Disc 2

1. Alimoney
2. Dirty Ol' Me
3. Kick It Again
4. Someday's Here
5. Time
6. Boy Named Sue
7. Pathetic Way of Getting Over Me
8. Somebody Stole My Rig
9. Comin' After Jinny
10. Daylight Dreamer
11. Bigtime
12. Thumbsucker
13. I Got Stoned and I Missed It
14. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take T
15. Stacy Brown Got Two
16. Polly In a Porny
17. Freakin' At the Freakers Ball
18. All About You
19. Don't Give a Dose To the One You Love Most
20. The Peace Proposal
21. Masochistic Baby
22. Liberated Lady 1999
23. The Man Who Got No Sign

Label: Floating World | Origin: Holland