Pleasure and Pain is the seventh 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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| 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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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| 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]
In September 1979 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.[3]
Track list
edit- "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" (Sam Weedman) – 3:07
Personnel
editMusic
edit- 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
- Marilyn Martin - backing vocals
- Nancy Nash - backing vocals
Artwork By – Michael Kanarek
Charts
edit| Year | Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Australia Kent Music Report[4] | 30 |
| 1979 | Billboard 200[5] | 66 |
References
edit- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ "Dr. Hook – Pleasure & Pain (1978, Jacksonville Press, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "RIAA – Searchable Database: Dr. Hook". Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 94. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Dr. Hook Pleasure + Pain Chart History | Billboard". Billboard. 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 31 December 2021.