Pleasure Train

Pleasure Train
Studio album by Teri DeSario
Released	October 21, 1978
Recorded	February, late summer 1978 Criteria Studios, Miami ("Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You") Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Genre	Disco
Label	Casablanca
Producer	Ron Albert & Howard Albert, Denny Randall, Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Teri DeSario chronology
n/a Pleasure Train (1978) Moonlight Madness (1979)

Pleasure Train (Casablanca NBLP 7115)^[1] is the first album from singer, songwriter, producer and composer Teri DeSario.

The album includes the disco hits: "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" which was written and co-produced by Barry Gibb. The version featured on this album is different from the 12 inch version.^[2] Also included was, "You're the Stuff Dreams are Made Of" which peaked at number forty-one on the disco chart.^[3]

Credits

• Produced by: Ron Albert, Howard Albert and Denny Randall escept on "Sometime Kind of Thing" by Ron and Howarld Albert and on "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You" by Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson
• Engineered by: Bill Fair and David Yates
• Label: Casablanca
• Release date: October 21, 1978

Track listing

Side one

• 1. "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of" (Joey Carbone, Lenny Lambert) - 3:25
  2. "Back In Your Arms Again" (Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer) - 3:15
  3. "Pleasure Train" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) - 4:24
  4. "It Takes a Man and A Woman" (Denny Randell, Letty Jo Randell) - 3:52
  5. "Save Me, Save Me" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten) - 3:30

Side two

• 1. "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" (Barry Gibb) - 3:52
  2. "Just Another Song And Dance Man" (Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer) - 3:01
  3. "Someone Kind Of Thing" (Betty Wright, Clay Cropper, Elise Kratish) - 2:44
  4. "Baby, I Don't Want Your Love" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) - 3:08
  5. "Loving You The First Time" (Bill Purse, Teri DeSario) - 3:45

Personnel

• Teri DeSario: lead and backing vocals
• Ken Bell: guitar
• Mickey Buckins: percussion
• Paul Harris: keyboards
• Roger Hawkins: drums
• David Hood: bass guitar
• Jimmy Johnson: guitar
• Randy McCormick: keyboards
• Bill Purse: horn & string arrangements (on Baby I Don't Want Your Love and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of),keyboards
• George Terry: guitar (overdubs)
• Laura Taylor: backing vocals
• Bobby Caldwell: backing vocals
• BRANDEY (Donna Davis, Cynthia Douglas, Pam Vincent): backing vocals
• Mike Lewis: horn and string arrangements
• Bill Fair: recording engineer (at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios)
• David Yates: recording engineer (at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios)
• Bruce Hensel: recording engineer (at Criteria Studios)
• Jerry Masters: recording engineer (at Criteria Studios)
• Don Gehman: recording engineer (at Criteria Studios)

On Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You:

• Teri DeSario: lead and backing vocals
• Barry Gibb: backing vocals
• Albhy Galuten: synthesizer
• Joey Murcia: guitar
• George Terry: guitar
• George Bitzer: keyboards
• Paul Harris: keyboards
• George Perry: bass
• Stan Kipper: drums
• Butch Polvermo: percussion

The Boneroo Horns

• Peter Graves
• Whit Sidener
• Ken Faulk
• Neil Bonsanti
• Vinnie Tianno
• Chris Colclesser
• Mike Lewis
• Karl Richardson - recording engineer

CD release

Gold Legion released Pleasure Train on CD in early June, 2012 as an expanded edition. The tracklisting included the extended 12" versions of Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You and The Stuff Dreams are Made of.^[4]

Cover versions

"It Takes a Man and A Woman" was revived by Filipina singer Sharon Cuneta under her 2006 album Isn't It Romantic and Iya Villania under her 2008 album Finally!.^[5] In March 2013, it was covered by singer and actress Sarah Geronimo as the main title track for the movie of the same name for which she also starred in.^[6] It was later included in Geronimo's tenth studio album, Expressions.

References

1. Disco Music.com
2. Disco Hits.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 76.
4. "Teri DeSario: Pleasure Train". GoldLegion.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
5. Archived December 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
6. "Long lines for 'It Takes a Man and a Woman' opening". 30 March 2013. ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

External links

• Teri DeSario Facebook Site