Pleasure Train

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Pleasure Train
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1978
RecordedFebruary, late summer, 1978
Studio Criteria, Miami ("Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You")
Muscle Shoals Sound, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Genre Disco
Label Casablanca
Producer Ron Albert & Howard Albert, Denny Randall, Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Teri DeSario chronology
Pleasure Train
(1978)
Moonlight Madness
(1979)

Pleasure Train is the first album by singer, songwriter, producer and composer Teri DeSario, released in 1978 by Casablanca (NBLP 7115). [1]

Contents

The album includes the disco hit "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You", which was written and co-produced by Barry Gibb. The version featured on this album is different from the 12" version. [2] Also included was "You're the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of", which peaked at number forty-one on the disco chart. [3]

CD release

Gold Legion released Pleasure Train on CD in early June 2012 as an expanded edition. The track listing included the extended 12" versions of "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You" and "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of". [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of" (Joey Carbone, Lenny Lambert) – 3:25
  2. "Back in Your Arms Again" (Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer) – 3:15
  3. "Pleasure Train" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) – 4:24
  4. "It Takes a Man and a Woman" (Denny Randell, Letty Jo Randell) – 3:52
  5. "Save Me, Save Me" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) – 3:30

Side two

  1. "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You" (Barry Gibb) – 3:52
  2. "Just Another Song and Dance Man" (Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer) – 3:01
  3. "Someone Kind of Thing" (Betty Wright, Clay Cropper, Elise Kratish) – 2:44
  4. "Baby, I Don't Want Your Love" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) – 3:08
  5. "Loving You the First Time" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) – 3:45

Personnel

On "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You":

The Boneroo Horns:

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References

  1. Disco Music.com
  2. Disco Hits.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 76.
  4. "Teri DeSario: Pleasure Train". GoldLegion.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.