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The group that eventually became "Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show" was founded by four friends: George Cummings, Dennis Locorriere, Ray Sawyer, Billy Francis. They had performed along the East Coast and even into the Midwest, all winding up in the state of New Jersey one by one, with invitations from George Cummings.
Once told by a club owner that they should have a name to put on a poster in the window of his establishment, Cummings made a sign that read "Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for the Soul." The name, as one might suspect, was inspired by the traveling medicine shows of the old West. Even now, frontman Ray Sawyer is mistakenly thought of as "Dr. Hook" due to the eye patch he wears as the result of a serious auto accident in Oregon during 1967.