Yes, he is alive and well and on tour internationally through March of this year.
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Dr. Hook is actually the name of the Band. However, Ray Sawyer has always been identified as "Dr. Hook". He is alive and well and has just put out a new album.
During their run from 1968 to 1985, there were altogether 12 members of the Band. Four have died: Popeye Phillips, Billy Francis, Jance Garfat and John Wolters. The other 8 members are still with us: George Cummings, Ray Sawyer, Dennis Locorriere, Jay David, Rik Elswit, Willard Henke, Rod Smarr and Walter Hartman.
I believe he has children but was divorced in 2001. He is still hot too.
I'm afraid there's not enough room here to list ALL of the songs that Dr. Hook recorded. However, here are their 10 Top-40 singles: Sylvia's Mother, Cover of the Rolling Stone, Only 16, A Little Bit More, Sharing the Night Together, When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Better Love Next Time, Sexy Eyes, Girls Can Get It, Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk.
Hooks: repeated melodic, lyrical and rhythmic devices that are usually the most memorable part of most pop songs. These include:melodic hook: hook based on the instruments and the singersrhythmic hook: hook based on the patterns in the drums and bass partsverbal hook: hook based on the rhyming and/or repeated words of the chorusI take it that the harmony he created to the main hook resulted in a sound like brass instruments.(I often use 'brass' to refer to money - usually in the negative - 'I haven't got any brass, have you'?)