Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

Pleasure and Pain
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

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[edit]

"Sharing the Night Together" (Ava Aldridge, Eddie Struzick) – 2:58
"Sweetest of All" (Shel Silverstein) – 2:42
"Storms Never Last" (Jessi Colter) – 3:25
"I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight" (Silverstein) – 3:30
"Knowing She's There" (Silverstein, Dennis Locorriere) – 3:26
"Clyde" (J. J. Cale) – 4:38
"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (Even Stevens) – 3:02
"Dooley Jones" (Hazel Smith, Walter Carter) – 3:48
"I Gave Her Comfort" (Silverstein, Locorriere) – 3:15
"You Make My Pants Want to Get up and Dance" (Sam Weedman) – 3:07

Personnel[edit]

Music[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

[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.

[aus-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.

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v t e Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Billy Francis Ray Sawyer George Cummings Bobby Dominguez Jimmy Allen Dennis Locorriere Popeye Phillips Joseph Oliver John David Rik Elswit Jance Garfat John Wolters Bob "Willard" Henke Rod Smarr Walter Hartman
Studio albums	Doctor Hook (1972) Sloppy Seconds (1972) Pleasure and Pain (1978) Sometimes You Win (1979)
Compilations	Dr. Hook Revisited (1976) Greatest Hits (1980) The Essential Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (2003)
Singles	"Sylvia's Mother" "Carry Me Carrie "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" "Only Sixteen" "A Little Bit More" "Walk Right In" "Sharing the Night Together" "All the Time in the World" "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" "Better Love Next Time" "Sexy Eyes"