Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - Cover Of The Rolling Stone (Austrian TV, 1974)

Song starts at 1:17. Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, shortened from 1975 onwards to Dr. Hook, were an American rock band, formed in New Jersey. Their biggest hits were "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" (both 1972), "A Little Bit More" (1976), "Sharing the Night Together" (1978), and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (1979). The founding core of the band consisted of George Cummings, Ray Sawyer, and Billy Francis. Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident.
Spotlight was a music show for the youth, which was aired between 1968 and 1978 by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). It was the counterpart to the shows "Beat Club" or "Musikladen" in Germany.

[@1besieged]

I love hearing them all laugh they are rip roaring funny, they are happy, the 70's was a beautiful time to be young.

[@johngannon599]

im 63 now and i remember these songs like yesterday

[@jonathanwebb8669]

Dude... that did happen yesterday.

[@SafeTrucking]

Yeah brother.

[@danielcollins7588]

When rock and roll made sense I'm 67

[@DelLindenberg]

I'm pushing 81 and I love this song, great group.

[@glennpeacock4460]

I first heard these guys over 50 years ago on a juke box in Austria, where I visited every summer, growing up. My mother was Austrian. I still get goose bumps when ever I hear the opening riff to Sylvie's Mother. Wow fantastic !

[@Loan--Wolf]

i heard them on the radio in the 70s

[@GenLeeConcepts]

God, I suddenly felt tears at the reality it's been nearly 50 years since this song...where did all that time go. The World seemed to hold endless possibilities. All we had to do was grab for it. But, there are no do-overs...

[@olskool3967]

i got stoned and i missed it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@deloreslandeis1008]

Say it ain't so..seems like short time when I pull out my LP 's and listen to some of the best music...

[@gregoryforde7447]

Amen @GenLeeConcepts I'm Doc Hook on Guitar today. Have a great day

[@carolynalexander9704]

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[@tomfrank2919]

Some of the best music? The best music! And yes I have that same feeling I could have written what you wrote about time time going by. I guess we have to just be happy that we had it to begin with. And I know you said they are no do-overs. And in my Christian there are not. But there's a lot of Hindus and others who say that reincarnation is what happens and then there are endless do overs.. so I guess we can hope. Besides maybe somebody will do that Einstein time travel thing How good was the music then? Well there are still bands out there who are filling stadiums based on that Euro era including Bruce Springsteen and of course the rolling Stones and many others that many of us saw when they were in their twenties Speaking of The rolling Stones I remember the song time is on my But for me not longer

[@danielcorreard3746]

what i find very sad is that a lot of younger people have never even heard of dr hook and the saddest part is that they don't know what the hell they are missing they were such a great band so many great songs when your in love with a beautiful woman sylvias mother cover of the rolling stone and so many many more

[@Hamigal]

They were one of the most fun and entertaining bands of that time.

[@danielcorreard3746]

@@Hamigal i agree one of my favorites

[@Yankeeladyb17g]

Im 17 and I love it. God bless you☮️❤️😀

[@denisehedden5108]

🥀Beautiful🥀I saw them in Atlanta Ga in the 70s I was 13yrs old and they were my 1st concert I fell in love with them🥀✌🥀☝️

[@erikmunson2457]

Thats a great first show! I always play the "Who's your first concert" game with people. And ive never heard Dr. Hook, so we'll done! Mine is Hall and Oates.

[@nitwitromney]

What a blast these guys were! Sorry I missed seeing them live.

[@michaeljohn364]

These guys are fantastic . I’m 40 and I love watching them my mothers favourite band

[@tessaducek5601]

My mom loved Sylvia's Mother and Only Sixteen. She has been gone eighteen years now.

[@jackwyatt1218]

I saw Dr. Hook's Medicine Show at High Point College in the mid '70's. I remember it being GREAT!

[@kurtlonde5892]

... sind was besonderes.... köstlich... wie sie sich und die ganze Szene auf den Arm nehmen.. 😂😂... man.. I like it.... Rock n Roll....!! 😮😮🙄

[@michaelhenry550]

Who ever put these old videos up........THANK YOU!!!!

[@seppokinnari6753]

yuar well come

[@MsHellcat08]

I second that! I grew up listening to Dr Hook on radio or tape...never saw clips

[@dalewhitlock9156]

Your welcome

[@tammyrenee64]

Don't get any better than this, miss them days✌️ thank you for these awesome videos

[@GetaldineWhite]

thank you so much for these beautiful photo's of the most handsome man in the world..I never get tired of looking at him

[@tatjananeville7093]

Man ļoti patīk viņu dziesmas . Jokdari . Un katru dienu klausos viņu mūziku . Supper ❤

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

Was a mid-teenage kid, living and working on a ranch and my best friend (my parents were his guardian) and I would literally be stoned every day and jam on Dr. hook…had to be stoned to move sprinkler pipe, pick rock, drive Steiger tractors, plowing, disc’ing, harrowing, planting, harvesting…being “stoned” was a much needed coping mechanism. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@GetaldineWhite]

I loved this group always have they not only sing good but they entertained us sends you back in time

[@lannlann]

These guys put a big smile on my face.

[@jimroscovius]

My first date with my now wife was in 1976. We went to a Johnny Winter concert, and the opening act was Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. Great memories!!

[@anthonymayberry323]

It has been great music all my life!

[@petragreve]

Lange her, immer noch gut ❤ damals war ich 14 Jahre alt. Eine tolle Musik👩‍🦰

[@Hamigal]

"Sharing the night together" was my husband and I's wedding song in 1980. I lost him to cancer in 08.

[@tomfrank2919]

I am sorry. My faith tells me that you will see him again. And this time there will never be another separation. It will be no more pain or tears or thirst or hunger. All things will be made new. Until that day please try to find peace and love and solace in the promises made to us.

[@BrendaMcelhenney]

I am so sorry, I lost mine in 2018, my love will always be with him in my heart.Love cannot be duplicated, companion would be nice for me 😮😂

[@dsloop3907]

My wife of 39 years was called home in 2012. I know your pain.

[@Hamigal]

@@dsloop3907 God bless you

[@GetaldineWhite]

I am sorry for your loss

[@JohnMacintyre-cl5nu]

*THIS SONG IS THE LAST MEMORY OF MY DAD WE WERE CAMPING IN MY CAR DRIVING AROUND DRUNK (SOLBER WIFE WAS DRIVING) SINGING THIS SONG AN SHORTLY AFTER HE SAVED 2 DROWNING KIDS BUT SADLY LOST HIS LIFE AFTER SAVING THEM AN I CRY EVERYTIME I HEAR THIS SONG TEARS OF JOY AN SORROW! FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS I HAD TO CHANGE THIS AN ANY DR.HOOK OR SUPERTRAMP SONG OFF BECAUSE IT BROKE ME I MISS YOU DAD SOO MUCH! GBYAA!!!!!!!!*

[@bariumenema6865]

Find those kids.

[@RickyHenry-hu7on]

Dr Hook is a classic band from way back and another one of my favorites

[@joelhoffmeier-pe2qe]

I listened to to them when I lived in Bergen Norway in 1979, love them then love them now

[@EmmPeeKay]

I was in the Navy living in N Charleston South Carolina in the very early 70’s and saw them playing in a bowling alley. Awesome band! Who would have thought that they would get this big!

[@nickthenewfie100]

RIP Ray..Thx for the memories

[@terenceturner4458]

Hey Ray tell em who we are

[@huckfin1100]

Damn I remember these songs, and still enjoy the shit out of them ! HIGHLANDTOWN !!!

[@woodstocknation1961]

Oct 22 2024. 50 years ago those were the good olde days.

[@GeraldPressey]

Ya grew up on this music my self,ya could understand it,

[@sharonnagel3384]

I wish I grew up in those years ❤❤ I'm a flowerchild at heart 😍😍✌️

[@pmccachren]

Singing to this back then with little care and plenty of abandon. (I was a teenager then). Fun!

[@rebeccaknowlton2642]

Saw them in concert at Bicentennial Park in Miami in 1978..They were backup band for Neil Young.... Great show!!

[@Tennessee_Plumbing]

my parents use to crank this album on saturday mornings.... one of my best memories as a child.

[@michellehawkins4485]

This is So Cool. Love This Bunch. I Love The Humor.

[@lindaanderson7099]

Loved this song when I was kid. Rolling Stone Stone

[@MrMarkar1959]

the First 45rpm record I ever bought. 1973? or 74. still got it. RIP Ray baby✌🏼

[@Veronica-qz7ld]

Hadn't heard you for a while 🙏✨💖 Thank you for being here

[@annettemelanson7879]

OMG haven’t heard this song in years ❣️💙💔❤️💘💕💛💓🤎💖✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🖤💚🧡🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️✌️✌️

[@MikeTssr]

They partied had fun singing awesome 😊

[@OriginalCaliKitty]

The musical partnership between the band and Shel Silverstein (who wrote so many of their songs) was a great thing.

[@danielshaw8049]

A Kentucky boy, was my friend, used to play this Song.

[@heavymachinery2843]

Good old music i love it

[@Mitzy--]

Well we’re big rock singers 🎶🎶 that sounds about right 🖤

[@denisehedden5108]

🥀Beautiful🥀I love this song and these Guy's you can't help but love them all there just being them selves lmao 👅🥀✌🥀☝️

[@movintohonobia]

These guys were so good!

[@paulhunt4690]

Yes, thank you very much!

[@MikeTssr]

Singing 🎶 and having fun 😊

[@flakedwheelie]

That acoustic version of ’Life ain’t Easy’. 💖

[@cecisplendor67]

whauuu!!!!Vengo adesso a conoscere questo gruppo!!!!!Fantastici!!!!!!Grazie per averli messi!!!!!Love from Cecilia

[@tessaducek5601]

I still listen to the CD i have of them. I giggle to hear Ten thousand for a show. 🤭 Ah. Simpler times.

[@janetdidonato9963]

Superb! Hope they're all still kicking. They used to come in all the time to a bar in Secaucus, where one of the guy's mom was a cook! Feels like no time has passed. Such great, totally down to earth boys then!

[@OriginalCaliKitty]

Sadly, Ray Sawyer died in 2018 and Billy Francis died in 2010, but George Cummings and Dennis Locorriere (the youngest in the group) are still alive and Dennis is still performing.

[@janetdidonato9963]

@@OriginalCaliKitty So sorry to hear that. What a great bunch of guys. We're losing them one after the other now. Glad Dennis is still with us.

[@OriginalCaliKitty]

@@janetdidonato9963 Looks like my info was a bit old. George Cummings died last year, but Dennis is still with us. The other three were somewhat older than Dennis (he's 75, same as me) - that Ray and George made it well into their 80s is pretty amazing.

[@leefarmer4212]

Great video as far as quality. Old days when we were free.

[@doriswhite1348]

70's were awesome. So different.

[@kimprentice8624]

Free😘

[@kimprentice8624]

Free

[@TWayneD1020]

Thank you so much !!!

[@jonahhex64]

Hey brother, never knew you were such a big Dr Hook fan! Me too...We should have done Sylvias Mother!

[@percys9427]

Ray Sawyer was born the same year as my Father , 1937 RIP Ray

[@greatdaneacdc]

I loved when he said while I don’t know ! Too funny those guys where ! 😂

[@portlavacaboy]

A dangerous band to ask to lip sync....they stayed on script for the most part. Love these guys!

[@teresagallonty6405]

I loved this group back in the day. I still do love them.

[@JOHNNYCRAIG]

You looking kinda lonely girl.. would you like someone new to talk to…😅😅😅

[@tomlehr861]

I lived in nashville,saw the dude with the eye patch walking in the, mall,also saw them in concert

[@JoeBlownmr]

Pure joy. They are great.

[@rhondawilliams5859]

DR HOOK 😎🎶😊🎶🎤 🎼 I LOVE YOU ❤️ GUYS!!!!!!🎵😁🎤🎶🎼😘😘😘

[@tanyasimonetta4995]

Dr hook songs

[@rhondawilliams5859]

@@tanyasimonetta4995 YES!!!!!DR HOOK!!!!!!!🎶💞🎵💜

[@danieltaylor7003]

Love these tunes 😄🎉😮 happy days 🎉 !! Daniel Taylor FtC -24 2025

[@resiwiesnegger2421]

Cool this Band.. 👍 😀

[@MsZoedog66]

Love the German guy doing translation. It's like he's the straight man and Ray Sawyer is the funny guy.

[@isallah1kafir196]

@Melinda Burge in case you still read this. That's *Austrian* (never make the mistake calling German Austrian, or Austrian "German" ) he was for years on the Austrian TV his name was Peter Rapp. He was on a couple of these Music shows. (BTW that about the Austrians/Germans this is just some inside joke... of us here... )

[@MarkMitchell-e2x]

Very under-rated band!

[@FenderTele]

I wish i could turn back time and go back to the Glasgow Apollo in 1976 to see Dr Hook. That must have been an amazing show that balcony would have been shakin!!!

[@AlwaysHalloween000]

Godspeed R.I.P Ray

[@jackallen3732]

Ray was so groovy on that. He captured it. My poor old Grey haired daddy. At least we were cooler than these millennial kids. They have no spirit. We ridiculed our parents. But we really didn't HATE them like this generatiion does.

[@MikeTssr]

They were funny and cool 😎 down to earth 🌎 hippies 😊

[@annettemelanson7879]

It’s beautiful

[@dukecraig2402]

I hope they put his picture on the cover of the next Rolling Stone, that'd be fitting, RIP Ray Sawyer.

[@isaiahfields3583]

They did after that song

[@isaiahfields3583]

But people today have NO taste in music

[@isaiahfields3583]

I'm 12

[@isaiahfields3583]

And LOVE THIS MUSIC

[@rebeccabrown122]

@@isaiahfields3583 Good for you! You know good music when you hear it.

[@bnegs521]

March 29th 1973 DR. HOOK On the COVER!!

[@jannasholm7223]

Min favorit ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lynnaTN]

I remember my mother playing Dr.Hook when I was little!

[@allenbrownsr474]

L Hurd 707

[@johnlamb2754]

Loads of fun and fooling around before it all went commercial.

[@kimberleyhollyman90]

Missing you Mum.♡

[@floydshirley4290]

Thanks man

[@Chanta-nh8et]

I bet they were a blast to go on tour with.😂

[@TheresaStout-gs3hw]

My FAVORITE!!!!!

[@DaveBailey-p1n]

Amazing

[@BradleyCarroll-c7o]

I love you all brother man

[@stratusboubou]

727 of UNITED . we were young .

[@sharpfocus87]

What we ned to do is keep the music going

[@cheypam]

I had always wondered what the covo was that led to the beginning of this song on the album!

[@PirateRadioPodcasts]

Kyyyaaaarrr! Pretty reasonable job LIP-SYNCHING. #RIP Ray Sawyer

[@rahulmax9580]

I'm Still Hippie....!👍🏻🏁

[@MikeTssr]

They partied and sang and had fun 😅

[@JenniferPeterson-m5n]

I love you guys!!!!!!!!!!! It took me forever to find you I was searching KZbin kids until my dad said that it wasn't on there cuz it's not a child song but now that I got my mom's tablet I can actually go on KZbin music and I finally found it!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤#😍😍😻😻🤩🤩🥰😸😘🥰😺🤩🤩😸🥰💚🖤😁🦄😁🦄😁😁😍😍😁😁😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@daveclifton8366]

A little Rock n roll never anybody. A lot on the other hand can become an issue

[@howarddowling3849]

Did you miss these triggers 👋👋👋✅🎱🎱🎱✅😈😈😈🧹🧹🧹🪄🪄🪄👍👍👍

[@ChristyBeck-ys1dw]

Awesome song can you talk beside send lyrics would love to get know you

[@jimclarke1108]

Legends

[@debbiewilkinson914]

Loved their music! But can we say high😳🤣

[@exentr]

We got all the friends money can buy

[@billyarnold3145]

Godspeed Ray!

[@samgibson684]

Greatest guitar solo eva...,.

[@Лариса-ы2р5ч]

Очень круто ❤

[@carolynkalisch7128]

Love it

[@michellefrazier1253]

rock n Roll Heaven too another one home and Ray will never be forgotten. someday we'll all be up there, young and smiling - beautiful! does anyone notice that of ALL the live versions of Rolling Stone you'll find on KZbin THIS ONE is THE ONE - the one we actually heard played on the radio and still do. if u listen u will notice it's the exact version, funny they went all the way to Austria to record the one that would end up being the radio version. I like it cuz it's even got George Cummings IT'S THE ORIGINAL! godspeed Ray'eyepatch'Sawyer I was hoping u would make it to see the band to this year but - "if there's a rock n Roll Heaven, u know they got a helluva band!

[@beastwishes]

that's because the studio version is overdubbed over them miming, it's not live at all - which is what they did on a lot of TV show performances during this era.

[@highdadd6526]

@@beastwishes There are several videos of them doing this song and this is the only one that is lip synced. The rest are all truly live as you can tell by the banter and difference in the singing and music.

[@marshallallensmith]

They sorta made it on the March 29, 1973 cover

[@danielshaw8049]

A genuine southern band.

[@uglyjoe3721]

wie geil waren die 70 er. schade das ich bwi dieser aufnahme erst 3 jahre alt war. peter rapp legende.