Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album) explained

Pleasure and Pain
Type:	studio
Artist:	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
Cover:	Pleasure_and_Pain_(Dr._Hook_album).jpg
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
Chronology:	Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Prev Title:	Makin' Love and Music
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Sometimes You Win
Next Year:	1979

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.^[1]

In September 1979 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.^[2]

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^[3]	30
1979	Billboard 200^[4]	66

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Hook – Pleasure & Pain (1978, Jacksonville Press, Vinyl). 31 December 2021. Discogs.com.
2. Web site: January 29, 2024. RIAA – Searchable Database: Dr. Hook.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 94.
4. Dr. Hook Pleasure + Pain Chart History | Billboard. Billboard. 6 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190106012221/https://www.billboard.com/music/dr-hook/chart-history/billboard-200/song/365768. 31 December 2021. 2019-01-06.