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.

Pleasure and Pain
Studio album by
Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
ReleasedOctober 6, 1978
Recorded1978
StudioMuscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama
GenreCountry rock, soft rock
Length32:45
LabelCapitol
ProducerRon Haffkine
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show chronology
Makin' Love and Music
(1977)		 Pleasure and Pain
(1978)		 Sometimes You Win
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

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
  1. "Sharing the Night Together" (Ava Aldridge, Eddie Struzick) – 2:58
  2. "Sweetest of All" (Shel Silverstein) – 2:42
  3. "Storms Never Last" (Jessi Colter) – 3:25
  4. "I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight" (Silverstein) – 3:30
  5. "Knowing She's There" (Silverstein, Dennis Locorriere) – 3:26
  6. "Clyde" (J. J. Cale) – 4:38
  7. "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (Even Stevens) – 3:02
  8. "Dooley Jones" (Hazel Smith, Walter Carter) – 3:48
  9. "I Gave Her Comfort" (Silverstein, Locorriere) – 3:15
  10. "You Make My Pants Want to Get up and Dance" (Silverstein, Stevens) – 3:07

Personnel

Music

Artwork By – Michael Kanarek

Charts
YearChartPeak
position
1979 Billboard 200[3] 66

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. https://www.discogs.com/Dr-Hook-Pleasure-Pain/release/1672796
  3. Billboard Charts - Doctor Hook - Pleasure And Pain
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