Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

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.

Pleasure and Pain
Studio album by
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]

In September 1979 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.[3]

Track list

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  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

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Music

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Artwork By – Michael Kanarek

Charts

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

References

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  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.