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.

Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)

Track list

"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

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

References

1978 albums

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show albums

Capitol Records albums

Albums produced by Ron Haffkine

Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)