Oh I love Dr.Hook they are sooo awesome love ❤️ their music 🎶 🎶🎵🎼🎶🥰songs love Dennis his voice beautiful voice I listen to Dr.Hook CD always I love all the songs but my favorite one is Sharing The Night Together 🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I never really saw Dr Hook until I found them here and I have been playing their songs over and over. I LOVE watching Ray!!! And Dennis has such a beautiful voice. I love the whole group. They are so real and down to earth and they look like their having so much fun onstage. I love it! Im so sad that Ray isnt alive to see how many people loved him. I hope we hear more from Dennis.
🥀Beautiful🥀These Guy's were always so involved in everything that they felt close to and so creative in the music industry with us the fans and people in need. I love these Guy's so much they've been here for me and we've never met but my 1st Concert was Dr Hook I was 13yrs old in the 70s in Atlanta Ga!🥀✌🥀☝️
Love these guys. RIP Ray. By the way, the Australian song he's talking about is "Wild Colonial Boy" which they sang on The Don Lane Show, it's on CZcams.
this is around the time dennis stopped writing fun songs and started going radio. The fin onstage stopped as well and that's why I liked them. The 70s dr hook is the best and they had so much fun onstage. One of the main reason why ray left the band.
ust watched the band's video of "Cover of the Rolling Stone" after watching this...and, whoa, in just a mere 7 years every band member looked so different, the long hair, bushy mustaches, hippie clothes, bell-bottoms, etc...were all replaced with a much more clean cut look. They were still a bunch of fun-loving, humble guys though....different on the outside but still the same on the inside.
I like how they said they work with "retarded" kids and no one freaked out. We have become way too afraid of WORDS in this country. People insist upon fixing the WORDS, yet continue to ignore the CONDITIONS. Like Carlin said (paraphrasing) "If we stop calling it PTSD and go back to SHELL SHOCK maybe the vets would get the help they need."
Never forget hearing them interviewed on (I think) London's Capital Radio c1976. They told how Alice Cooper once cancelled a show because his guillotine had gone missing, then of how almost all their own gear had gone astray once, bar one guitar, but they somehow did the gig anyway. Real troupers, born showmen.
My Uncle Rustle, more Tar; my Mom don't worry about it. Just fill the hole with Frosting. But as I wake up every morning I love the sound of the Bird's Picking @ my brain ...
:-) I never knew that a young Robin Williams was in Dr Hook! (see 01:02) - kind of a career synergy with his later appearance in the Peter Pan movie battling Captain Hook! ;-)
Cover of the Rolling Stone ,funny song,on a Dr Hook interview it was said that song was banned,it must be a petty deal,I still hear it on the radio,sound effects,too.
It's Me Again Margaret you took the time to Leave Me Lucille they finally found someone to George Jones who's gonna take their place and it's called Midland and public keys and Kid Rock and George Strait and does this and we'll get to the lightning Taylor. Strike that she's gone Hollywood hope I don't go Grove on the Rio Grande River I got to go or Thanks 🎇🎇🏆🎑🎈🎗️🎊🎃🎃🎁02+2+27=/1..=4+4=8080*65%
Excellent band...too bad the Quality of their performances got a bit Sloppy when they got carried away with the drugs! a few Favorites - Medley, A lil bit More, Sharing the Nite together
Tony DeArco. Their performances never got sloppy when they smoked a bit of weed or did a few lines of coke or whatever they took. It made them funnier to watch and they in turn had fun. Can you imagine being on the road going from country to country for 300 days of the year for 13 years? Youd need to have somethin to “get ya thru the day”. It was more the drinking before the gigs that got them a little merry. A coupla bourbons in the hotel then standing under red hot spotlights makes anyone sweat. Alot of it was part of the act as well. Alot of it depended on the type of audience and even what country they were playing in. Sloppy, No f en way. And remember, everyone smoked a bit of gunga back in the seventies, and a hell of alot of performers were using a lot of smack too. These blokes as far as i know didnt. A bit of weed, a coupla uppers and a bit of grog. Good on em. They will always rock. And ill always be a fan. I always wonder if Dennis watches and reads any of these comments. Would be great if he wrote a story of the bands life from the beginning to now. Would love it he replied to my ten cents worth of comments. Come back down under, so we can hear one of the, if not the best singing voices and performers the world has ever seen/heard.
Dennis says as 'cliche as it sounds' we are all FRIENDS...but always fails to mention names from the band as it moves along through the years...sounds like money and legal shit wedged itself in between these Friends...sucks a bit in a way
Billy was your dad? Wow you must have some great stories. He looked like such a character . Well you would have to be to be in Dr Hook @@clavesseptem7223
One of the best band of all times Dr Hook
I never knew who Dr. Hook was until 2022. What an amazing band!
Oh I love Dr.Hook they are sooo awesome love ❤️ their music 🎶 🎶🎵🎼🎶🥰songs love Dennis his voice beautiful voice I listen to Dr.Hook CD always I love all the songs but my favorite one is Sharing The Night Together 🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I never really saw Dr Hook until I found them here and I have been playing their songs over and over. I LOVE watching Ray!!! And Dennis has such a beautiful voice. I love the whole group. They are so real and down to earth and they look like their having so much fun onstage. I love it! Im so sad that Ray isnt alive to see how many people loved him. I hope we hear more from Dennis.
They were the best
Plays still in the uk
@@victoriarachelle89 😮😅0o😅0ļokk9pp
I miss this show. Dick Clark was The guy for soooo long. The Barry Manilow theme song is hilarious.
I've loved Dr. Hook since i was very young, and ill always love hearing Dennis sing.
betty shelton Me too!
He had a great voice and sang with such emotion
They are so talented ... I am glad they were given to us ... ❤🌷❤
I soooo miss Dick Clark.😢😢
I love these Guy's!
They're real people that's so awesome
Great band too
lolol Some1 payin attention over here 🤓 giggle.
Most people are real people
They said they just came back from Australia. I saw them in concert on that tour. They were the best live act I've seen. They were fanstastic.
Loved them as. a kid,love them now!!
Dick Clark was easily the nicest person I ever met as a child growing up in Hollywood....
Dick Clark always made sure everyone in the band
received their recognition
🥀Beautiful🥀These Guy's were always so involved in everything that they felt close to and so creative in the music industry with us the fans and people in need. I love these Guy's so much they've been here for me and we've never met but my 1st Concert was Dr Hook I was 13yrs old in the 70s in Atlanta Ga!🥀✌🥀☝️
We saw Dennis in Manchester in September. I'm in 😍
WOW!!!!DR HOOK 🎵🎼🎤😍🎶ON BANDSTAND!!!!!l! I REMEMBER THIS!!!!!!!🎵🎼🎤😍🎶
Dennis was so handsome and kind-hearted!
Don't ever recall Dennis looking like he was taken back a little and in awe of someone. He was like OMG Im talking with Dick Clark.
@@buddyrogers1353 True, Dennis is such a sweetheart! :)
Love Dr hook
❤ his voice great memories
🥀Beautiful🥀I love these Guy's so much🥀✌🥀☝️
I first saw Dr. Hook American bandstand in 1972
🥀Amazing🥀I love Dr Hook & all of there song's🥀✌🥀☝️
Dick Clark was such a gentleman, treating the sidemen with the same respect as the stars. Nothing in it for him, he was just a classy guy,
John Richard's he really did treat them like they were the lead singer. Dick Clark had a reputation of being a really nice person.
I think he was condescending at times
Ray Sawyer has one highly professional aura ..
Love these guys. RIP Ray. By the way, the Australian song he's talking about is "Wild Colonial Boy" which they sang on The Don Lane Show, it's on CZcams.
AcAc
Thank You Coop Cooster! Excellant info 🤝 (scratches head & shrugs wat a strange moniker)
Thank you! He was dropping a plug that didn’t follow through!
Cheers for the info magic stuff
Wasn’t he born and raised in Ireland 🇮🇪 in a place called / near Castle Main ?
this is around the time dennis stopped writing fun songs and started going radio. The fin onstage stopped as well and that's why I liked them. The 70s dr hook is the best and they had so much fun onstage. One of the main reason why ray left the band.
Dr hook the best of the world
DR HOOK!!!! NUMBER 1 BAND!!!!!!! NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!!😁🎵🎼🎤😍🎶😍😍😍😍😍😍
ust watched the band's video of "Cover of the Rolling Stone" after watching this...and, whoa, in just a mere 7 years every band member looked so different, the long hair, bushy mustaches, hippie clothes, bell-bottoms, etc...were all replaced with a much more clean cut look.
They were still a bunch of fun-loving, humble guys though....different on the outside but still the same on the inside.
I always loved ya’ll
the best singer ever Dennis
Speechless!
Such a cool band dr hook is they always had nice songs
I like how they said they work with "retarded" kids and no one freaked out. We have become way too afraid of WORDS in this country. People insist upon fixing the WORDS, yet continue to ignore the CONDITIONS. Like Carlin said (paraphrasing) "If we stop calling it PTSD and go back to SHELL SHOCK maybe the vets would get the help they need."
I work with people like that. That word is stricken.
I remember seeing them on solid gold
R.I.P. RAY
Great interview. These guys!!,
Never forget hearing them interviewed on (I think) London's Capital Radio c1976. They told how Alice Cooper once cancelled a show because his guillotine had gone missing, then of how almost all their own gear had gone astray once, bar one guitar, but they somehow did the gig anyway. Real troupers, born showmen.
Great guys
My Uncle Rustle, more Tar; my Mom don't worry about it. Just fill the hole with Frosting. But as I wake up every morning I love the sound of the Bird's Picking @ my brain ...
RIP Ray
Dennis was lead singer
I can't talk on the rest of the worlds behalf but Australia will always have a place for Dr Hook
Dude, loved in the US as well. Need to get them in the Rock N Roll HOF. How are rap groups in before these guys? Cleveland sucks
You reciprocated by giving us John Farnham.
I was just being born this year in time March 21, 1981
❤szeretem❤
:-) I never knew that a young Robin Williams was in Dr Hook! (see 01:02) - kind of a career synergy with his later appearance in the Peter Pan movie battling Captain Hook! ;-)
RIP RAY SAWYER 😭
So sad about Ray x
ANN-MARIE BARMBY he was a joy to watch ❣️
Cover of the Rolling Stone ,funny song,on a Dr Hook interview it was said that song was banned,it must be a petty deal,I still hear it on the radio,sound effects,too.
Wish could see the rest
In 2019, five of the eight on stage here(including Dick Clark, Billy, John, Rod, Ray) are no longer with us
Make that six .... Jance was killed in a road accident in 2006.
Louder!
Dennis is brill
What show was month in 81. Would love to see the performance by Dr hook before interview
This aired April 25, 1981. I looked it up at imdb.com.
So will the UK
Why do you have the dial up sound for 1981? Doesn’t make sense😂
2:50 Lol ;)
2:40
Just because I've got money doesn't mean I'm here to spend it ???
Ray left when Dr. Hook started to be the Hallmark card of pop music.
😅
Music industry before Satan took over
Before he became more than obvious, anyway. Now, it's right in your face where it was primarily in the background before.
Where's George??
It's Me Again Margaret you took the time to Leave Me Lucille they finally found someone to George Jones who's gonna take their place and it's called Midland and public keys and Kid Rock and George Strait and does this and we'll get to the lightning Taylor. Strike that she's gone Hollywood hope I don't go Grove on the Rio Grande River I got to go or
Thanks 🎇🎇🏆🎑🎈🎗️🎊🎃🎃🎁02+2+27=/1..=4+4=8080*65%
Real people on great musicians
Is it just me or is Dick Clark condescending at times, like saying they went thru good and bad and went broke.
Does it really matter? ✨💜✨
Yep, very much so.
Excellent band...too bad the Quality of their performances got a bit Sloppy when they got carried away with the drugs! a few Favorites - Medley, A lil bit More, Sharing the Nite together
Rip ray
Tony DeArco. Their performances never got sloppy when they smoked a bit of weed or did a few lines of coke or whatever they took. It made them funnier to watch and they in turn had fun. Can you imagine being on the road going from country to country for 300 days of the year for 13 years? Youd need to have somethin to “get ya thru the day”. It was more the drinking before the gigs that got them a little merry. A coupla bourbons in the hotel then standing under red hot spotlights makes anyone sweat. Alot of it was part of the act as well. Alot of it depended on the type of audience and even what country they were playing in. Sloppy, No f en way. And remember, everyone smoked a bit of gunga back in the seventies, and a hell of alot of performers were using a lot of smack too. These blokes as far as i know didnt. A bit of weed, a coupla uppers and a bit of grog. Good on em. They will always rock. And ill always be a fan. I always wonder if Dennis watches and reads any of these comments. Would be great if he wrote a story of the bands life from the beginning to now. Would love it he replied to my ten cents worth of comments. Come back down under, so we can hear one of the, if not the best singing voices and performers the world has ever seen/heard.
Dennis says as 'cliche as it sounds' we are all FRIENDS...but always fails to mention names from the band as it moves along through the years...sounds like money and legal shit wedged itself in between these Friends...sucks a bit in a way
What kind of video is this. I wanted to see Dr. Hook and you failed.
He said the word retarded at 2:50 I guess you can't say that today lol
Silly presenter forgot to speak to the guitarist on the back how rude
“ working with re- tarted kids “ The lefties cringe .
Guy with the patch always seems to take over, dennis was the star, not him
That was Ray Sawyer, the lead singer. The dark-haired guy on the keys was my father, Billy Francis. Sadly both have now passed away
Billy was your dad? Wow you must have some great stories. He looked like such a character . Well you would have to be to be in Dr Hook
@@clavesseptem7223
So will the UK