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He is survived by his wife, Linda, and son, Cayse. In 2015, ill health forced him to give up touring. Sawyer was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2005. “Anyway, I’ve always been too crazy for anything else.”Īfter leaving the group, he toured regularly as Dr Hook Featuring Ray Sawyer, having been licensed to do so by Locorriere, who owns the Dr Hook trademark. “I decided then that music was for me,” he said. Cummings had moved to Union City, New Jersey, and brought the others there to join him, and the lineup was completed by Dennis Locorriere, a native of Union City, on lead vocals.īy now Sawyer had acquired his eye patch, having been injured in a road accident in Portland, Oregon, where he had gone to try a new career as a logger. When Dr Hook was formed in 1968, it comprised three former members of the Chocolate Papers: Sawyer, the guitarist George Cummings and the keyboards player Billy Francis. He even cut a couple of singles on the Mobile label Sandy Records and received a solitary fan letter for the first one, Bells in My Heart. I must’ve played all the clubs from Houston to Charleston and back.” I played with a lot of local black bands in Mobile. Press, volunteers and locals greet an inflatable boat carrying Syrian refugees as it arrives on the northern shore of the island of Lesbos in the evening.

“Mostly they didn’t have a name, except one was called the Chocolate Papers. “I was in a lot of bands before Dr Hook,” recalled Sawyer, who was chiefly a drummer in his early years.

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As he matured as a musician, he worked regularly in New Orleans, where he got to know Mac Rebennack (aka Dr John), and was also a familiar face on the city of Mobile’s music scene. He started playing the guitar at the age of 11, and was strongly influenced by Hank Williams and New Orleans blues and R&B artists such as Smiley Lewis and Huey Smith. He was born in Chickasaw, Alabama, “a small backwoods place,” as he put it. Sawyer, who had released a solo album (called merely Ray Sawyer) in 1976, quit the band in 1983 to pursue a solo career. However, the band once described in the Melody Maker as “possibly the most incompetent group in the history of rock’n’roll” had now evolved far from their early rootsy sound and were flirting dangerously with disco schmaltz. In 1979, they scored a No 1 hit in Britain with When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman (it reached 6 in the US), while Sexy Eyes (1980) climbed to 4 in the UK and 5 in the States. They returned to hit-making with their version of Sam Cooke’s Only Sixteen, which reached No 6 in the US in 1975, and followed up strongly with A Little Bit More (1976), which made it to No 2 in the UK. Sawyer retired in 2015 and died after a short illness, on December 31, 2018, at age 81.Subsequently, though, the band did rely increasingly on their own compositions and shortened their name to Dr Hook, though the albums Belly Up! (1973) and Bankrupt (1975) flopped.

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Hook featuring Ray Sawyer', under license from Locorriere, who tours separately and owns the Dr. Sawyer left the band in 1983, allegedly because he was no longer happy with the band's direction.įrom 1988 to October 2015, Sawyer toured the nostalgia circuit as 'Dr. Eventually, by the late 1970s, as the band found commercial success, Sawyer stepped back into a backing vocalist role behind Dennis Locorriere, occasionally playing another instrument (for example, on ' Better Love Next Time,' one of the band's later hits, he can be seen with a prominent bongo part). Sawyer was the lead vocalist on the band's breakthrough hit, ' The Cover of Rolling Stone,' as well as many of the Medicine Show's earlier songs.

When I recovered, I ran straight back to the beans and music and vowed, 'Here, I'll stay'.'

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On the way, my car slipped on the road and the accident left me with the eye patch I now wear.

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I saw a John Wayne movie and then proceeded to Portland, Oregon, to be a logger complete with plaid shirt, caulk boots, and pike pole. Sawyer said the following about his life before the time of his car accident: 'I must have played all the clubs from Houston to Charleston, until I decided I was going insane from too much beans and music, and I gave it up. Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident. He was also the uncle of Wild Fire vocalist Zack Sawyer. Though primarily a backing vocalist and occasional percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit song ' The Cover of Rolling Stone' and was a recognizable presence in the band owing to the eyepatch and cowboy hat he wore. Ray Sawyer (Febru– December 31, 2018) was an American percussionist and vocalist with the 1970s rock band Dr.

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