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Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show - "Sharing The Night Together"Album: Pleasure and Pain
Utgitt: 1978
Låtskrivere: Ava Aldridge / Edward H. Struzick
Label: Capitol
Producer: Ron Haffkine

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
Artwork By – Michael Kanarek


Pleasure and Pain is the eighth 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
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"Sharing the Night Together" is a popular song written by Ava Aldridge and Eddie Struzick. Originally recorded by Lenny LeBlanc and then Arthur Alexander in 1976, the song was later a single produced by Ron Haffkine and performed by Dr. Hook from their album Pleasure & Pain. "Sharing the Night Together" also appeared on most of Dr. Hook's following albums including Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits (And More).[2] It reached #6 in the U.S. and #3 in Canada in 1978, and #43 in the UK in 1980.


Dr. Hook (shortened from Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show in 1975) was an American rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" (both 1972), "Only Sixteen" (1975), "A Little Bit More" (1976), "Sharing the Night Together" (1978), "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (1979), "Better Love Next Time" (1979), and "Sexy Eyes" (1980). In addition to their own material, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show performed songs written by the poet Shel Silverstein.

The band had eight years of regular chart hits, in the United States, where their music was played on top-40, easy listening, and country music outlets, and throughout the English-speaking world including the UK, Canada and South Africa. Their music spanned several genres, mostly novelty songs and acoustic ballads in their early years, though their greatest success came with their later material, mostly consisting of disco-influenced soft rock, which the band recorded under the shortened name, Dr. Hook.

History
Founding of the band
The founding core of the band consisted of three Southerners, George Cummings, Ray Sawyer (from Alabama)[1], and Billy Francis, who had worked together in a band called The Chocolate Papers. They had played the South, up and down the East Coast, and into the Midwest before breaking up. Cummings, who moved to New Jersey with the plan of forming a new band, brought back Sawyer to rejoin him. They then took on future primary vocalist, New Jersey native Dennis Locorriere, at first as a bass player. Francis, who had returned south after the Chocolate Papers broke up, returned to be the new band's keyboardist. #DrHookandTheMedicineShow #DrHook #SharingTheNightTogether #RonjasCountryMusic #Ronja2H2 #Lyrics #RonjasDrHookChannel