I finally got the DVD about a week ago so I could get up to speed with the rest of you. Initially I didn't think twice about Sylvia's Mother, since it was a cover. I just don't usually get excited about covers...though on several occasions when I do finally hear them I wind up liking them.

For the most part when Bon Jovi's does covers..I have to admit I've liked them. The Animals covers on "An Evening With..." were excellent. I much prefered the Bon Jovi version of Brother Louie. Well, Sylvia's Mother, though I've never heard it before...gets added to the list. It's one of the best performances in the show.

What I haven't seen here.....is somewhat similar to the lack of any mention of who Olivia D'abo was and how many of us best remember her from The Wonder Years. The tradition of childhood association continues here.

The song is attributed to Dr. Hook. I've honestly never heard of him. But the person who wrote the song is Shel Silverstein.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who laughed his ass off at the poems found in his books like "Where The Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light In The Attic" as my elementary school teachers would read from them. He wrote the heart-wrenching "The Giving Tree," another childrens book that chronicles the relationship between a boy and a tree as the boy groes into a man and onto old age...the tree gives everything it's got to the man out of love until nothing remains but a stump.

He has done adult work...been the cartoonist for Playboy magazine, but I was unaware of that until I looked up more info. He died in 1999 of a heart attack.