[1] More Like The Movies (Shel Silverstein) - 3:43
[2] A Little Bit More (Bobby Gosh) - 3:14
[3] The Radio (Locorriere/Elswit/Silverstein) - 3:28
[4] Up On The Mountain (J.Comanor/S.Silverstein) - 2:38
[5] If Not You (Sam Cooke) - 2:44
[6] Jungle To The Zoo (Shel Silverstein) - 3:22
[7] Bad Eye Bill (Hazel Smith) - 2:22
[8] What About You (J.Anglin/J.Wright) - 2:50
[9] I Need The High (Dennis Locorriere) - 3:15
[10] A Couple More Years (D.Locorriere/S.Silverstein) - 3:07
Billy Francis - Keyboards
Ray Sawyer - Vocals, Guitar
George Cummings - Lead & Steel Guitars, Vocals
Dennis Locorriere - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Harmonica,
Rik Elswit - Lead Guitar
Jance Garfat - Bass
John Wolters - Drums
Bob 'Willard' Henke - Guitar
Warren Hartman - String & Horns Arrangement
Ron Haffkine - Producer
Waylon Jennings - Producer on [6]
Kyle Lehning - Engineer, Remixing
Wally Traugott - Mastering
Ron Treat - Assistant Engineer
Roy Kohara - Art Direction
Bonnie Phippins - Album Cover Concept
Ron Haffkine - Musical Director
Ted Mayer - Illustration, Album Design
Bonnie Phippins - Album Design
Switching from Columbia to Capitol, Dr. Hook also drop the Medicine Show
from their name and, along with it, a good deal of their lingering
hippie ties. They still pledge allegiance to Shel Silverstein, who
contributes almost half of the songs here, but they'd rather be slick
hucksters than accidental hitmakers, favoring disco beats and SoCal
slickness to earthy bar band boogie. There is still a bit of funk for
the freaks -- "Up on the Mountain," "Jungle to the Zoo," "Bad Eye Bill"
-- but these are basically sweet, slick, saccharine tunes that Dr. Hook
pull off remarkably well. They believe their BS, that's why it works:
they're happy to sell you a line as long as it satisfies you for the
night. And while it might leave you with doubts in the morning, it's
hard not to succumb to their charms when the lights go down.
