ATLANTA DECEMBER 14: Ray Sawyer as well as Dennis Locorriere of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show execute throughout Z-93 & U.S. Marines Toys for Tots at The OMNI Coliseum in Atlanta Georgia, December 14, 1980 (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images Getty Images
Ron Haffkine, a Grammy-winning document manufacturer as well as supervisor recognized for his collaborate with Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, has actually passed away. He was 84.
Haffkine passed away Sunday at his residence in Mexico after a short round with leukemia as well as kidney failing, his pal of half a century, songs exec Joel Diamond, informed The Hollywood Reporter.
“Ron always had an uncanny knack of hearing a hit song in its rawest stage and the rare talent to couple it with the best musicians and then top it off with a meticulous performance by the artist,” Diamond kept in mind.
Haffkine contributed in obtaining Dr. Hook authorized by Clive Davis at Columbia Records in the 1970s, as well as the band led by Dennis Locorriere, George Cummings, the eyepatch-wearing Ray Sawyer as well as Billy Francis would certainly put together a string of hits that consisted of “Sylvia’s Mother,” “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” “Sharing the Night Together,” “When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman,” “Sexy Eyes,” “Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk” as well as “A Little Bit More.”
Haffkine generated 10 Dr. Hook workshop cds as well as 2 real-time cds as well as dealt with the similarity Waylon Jennings, Lou Rawls, Mac Davis as well as Helen Reddy, as well.
Haffkine likewise frequently teamed up with vocalist, songwriter as well as poet Shel Silverstein. He won a Grammy Award in 1985 for generating Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends” as well as got one more Grammy nom 2 years later on for his work with one more Silverstein kids’s cd, “A Light in the Attic.”
Born in New York on Dec. 13, 1938, Haffkine acquired polio when he was 12, leaving him immobilized for 2 years. Later, he as well as Silverstein came to be close friends in Greenwich Village.
Silverstein asked him to create songs he had composed for the movies Ned Kelly (1970), starring Mick Jagger, as well as Who Is Harry Kellerman as well as Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971), starring Dustin Hoffman as well as Barbara Harris.
Haffkine suggested that Dr. Hook be made use of in Harry Kellerman, however, for that to take place, the New Jersey band needed to have a document bargain. After the artists did an unplanned real-time display in Davis’ workplace as well as were authorized, Dr. Hook executed the Silverstein-composed tracks “Bunky and Lucille” as well as “Last Morning” in the motion picture.
Haffkine likewise generated Silverstein’s 1972 songs funny cd Freakin’ at the Freakers’ Ball, with Dr. Hook dealing with the title track, as well as tape-recorded the wacky Silverstein track “Do You Want to Boogie or Do You Don’t” that year also.
Haffkine as well as his spouse of 37 years, Sydney, transferred to Mexico a number of years back. She endures him.
This post initially showed up in THR.com.
