Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

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Pleasure and Pain
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ReleasedOctober 6, 1978
Recorded1978
Studio Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama
Genre Country rock, soft rock
Length32:45
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
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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.

Contents

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

Artwork By – Michael Kanarek

Charts

YearChartPeak
position
1979Australia Kent Music Report [4] 30
1979 Billboard 200 [5] 66

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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.