Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)
Pleasure and Pain is the eighth album from the country rock band Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. It featured two U.S. Top 10 hits, "Sharing the Night Together" and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman." Both songs also became chart hits in the UK, Canada and Australia.
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| Studio album by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show | ||||
| Released | October 6, 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Studio | Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama | |||
| Genre | Country rock, soft rock | |||
| Length | 32:45 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Ron Haffkine | |||
| Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |    |
This particular Dr. Hook album was pressed with two different track line-ups. The first pressing, whose track listing is below, didn't include the song "All the Time in the World", as subsequent re-pressings did.[2]
Track list
- "Sharing the Night Together" (Ava Aldridge, Eddie Struzick) – 2:58
- "Sweetest of All" (Shel Silverstein) – 2:42
- "Storms Never Last" (Jessi Colter) – 3:25
- "I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight" (Silverstein) – 3:30
- "Knowing She's There" (Silverstein, Dennis Locorriere) – 3:26
- "Clyde" (J. J. Cale) – 4:38
- "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (Even Stevens) – 3:02
- "Dooley Jones" (Hazel Smith, Walter Carter) – 3:48
- "I Gave Her Comfort" (Silverstein, Locorriere) – 3:15
- "You Make My Pants Want to Get up and Dance" (Silverstein, Stevens) – 3:07
Personnel
Music
- Ray Sawyer – lead vocals
- Dennis Locorriere – lead guitar, lead vocals, bass, harmonica
- Rik Elswit – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Billy Francis – keyboards, backing vocals
- Jance Garfat – bass
- John Wolters - drums, percussion, vocals
- Bob "Willard" Henke - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Artwork By – Michael Kanarek
Charts
| Year | Chart | Peak position |
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| 1979 | Billboard 200[3] | 66 |
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