Ray Sawyer, the Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show member who sang the 1973 Shel Silverstein-penned hit “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,'” has died at the age of 81. Page Six first reported Friday ...

Other hit songs Silverstein wrote include “One’s on the Way” for Loretta Lynn and Seventies’ pop smashes “Sylvia’s Mother” and “The Cover of Rolling Stone” for Dr. Hook.

Blame it on Shel Silverstein, perhaps, but the Rolling Stone‘s cover is news. Silverstein penned “The Cover of the Rolling Stone” in 1972, and it was such a hit when it was recorded by Dr ...

From Playboy cartoonist to children’s book author (A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends) to hit songwriter, Shel Silverstein ... and “The Cover of Rolling Stone,” a Top Ten smash ...

The collection of songs, penned by Bare’s late friend, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein ... including “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’ ” a Top Ten pop smash in 1973.

“He ignited my creativity,” Janson told the crowd before launching into a slingshot version of Silverstein’s biggest hits, “A Boy Named Sue” and “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” made ...

Shel Silverstein is known for his whimsical ... feature new parody lyrics based on the Silverstein-penned "The Cover of Rolling Stone," which was a pop hit for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show ...

Shel Talmy, the producer behind hits including ... a representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 87. Born in Chicago in 1937, Talmy first started working in the music industry in the late ...

But we also endorse the works of Shel Silverstein ... banned airplay of their most famous hit, Silverstein’s “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” because it mentioned a commercial product ...

(The label of the original single gave the title as “The Cover of Rolling Stone,” though the lyrics ... and caught fire after it joined with Shel Silverstein, the cartoonist and sometime ...

The allure of gracing the front of Rolling Stone (forever immortalized by Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook’s 1972 singalong, “The Cover of The Rolling Stone”) might have diminished along with ...

Silverstein was a cartoonist, songwriter (“A Boy Named Sue”; Dr. Hook’s self-parody, “The Cover of the Rolling Stone”), and children’s-book author. He also dabbled in short ...