Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

Pleasure and Pain
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
Makin' Love and Music (1977) Pleasure and Pain (1978) Sometimes You Win (1979)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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.

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

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" (Sam Weedman) – 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
• Marilyn Martin - backing vocals
• Nancy Nash - backing vocals

Artwork By – Michael Kanarek

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak position
1979	Australia Kent Music Report[4]	30
1979	Billboard 200[5]	66

References

1. AllMusic review
2. "Dr. Hook – Pleasure & Pain (1978, Jacksonville Press, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
3. "RIAA – Searchable Database: Dr. Hook". Retrieved January 29, 2024.
4. 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.
5. "Dr. Hook Pleasure + Pain Chart History | Billboard". Billboard. 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 31 December 2021.