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Dr. Hook with Shel Silverstein - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 1-14-1979

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Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one primarily features the American band Dr. Hook. But it also has a significant solo spot for singer-songwriter Shel Silverstein.

From 1972 until 1980, Dr. Hook had quite a few hits in the U.S. So this was a good time for this episode, coming near the end of their hit-making era. Few bands are as closely tied to an outside songwriter as this band was with Shel Silverstein, so it's fitting that he was a part of this concert. In fact, all the songs for their first two albums consisted of songs written by Silverstein, and they covered many more of his songs from the rest of the 1970s.

Silverstein had an extremely varied and fascinating career as a writer, poet, songwriter, and author of children's books. But with so many interests, it seems he almost never performed his songs in concerts, although he put out many albums. So his appearance in this concert is probably the most prominent public performance that's available.

This concert is split into four parts. At the start and the end are sections featuring Dr. Hook. In the middle are two sections featuring Silverstein. Silverstein wrote many different types of songs, but he was particularly well known for both lewd songs and children's songs. Those two styles aren't meant to go together, for obvious reasons. So Silverstein did one of his lewd songs, "Show It at the Beach" about nude beaches, to an adult audience. But the rest of his songs here consisted of children's songs and were performed for a small audience made up entirely of little children, with some audience interaction. 

By the way, I already have two albums of Silverstein's songs ready for my Covered series. It's just a matter of getting around to posting them, since there's a big backlog of those albums. 

The last song, "Happy Trails," originally ended without any applause at the end, just silence. I thought that was strange. So I copied and pasted in some applause from earlier in the concert, to give it a satisfying ending. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Walk Right In (Dr. Hook)
02 talk (Dr. Hook)
03 Ray's Yodel (Dr. Hook)
04 Only Sixteen (Dr. Hook)
05 What a Way to Go (Dr. Hook)
06 talk (Dr. Hook & Shel Silverstein)
07 Show It at the Beach (Shel Silverstein)
08 Boa Constrictor (Shel Silverstein)
09 talk (Shel Silverstein)
10 Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (Shel Silverstein)
11 talk (Shel Silverstein)
12 Unicorn (Shel Silverstein)
13 A Little Bit More (Dr. Hook)
14 Red Winged Blackbird (Dr. Hook)
15 Everybody's Making It Big but Me (Dr. Hook)
16 Sharing the Night Together (Dr. Hook)
17 The Cover of 'Rolling Stone' (Dr. Hook)
18 Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Dr. Hook)
19 Happy Trails [Edit] (Dr. Hook)

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The cover photo of Ray Sawyer, one of the band's two lead singers, is a screenshot from this exact concert. The video the screenshot came from was pretty low-res, so I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.



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