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Pleasure Train (album)

album by Teri DeSario

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ17066274 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pleasure Train is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter, producer, and composer Teri DeSario, released in October 1978 by Casablanca (NBLP 7115).

The album includes the disco hit "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" version. Also included was "You're the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of", which peaked at number forty-one on the disco chart.

CD release

Gold Legion released Pleasure Train on CD in early June 2012 as an expanded edition. The track listing included the extended 12" versions of "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You" and "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of".

Editorial summary

“Pleasure Train (album)” enters the record as album by Teri DeSario. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pleasure, Train and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pleasure, Train and album.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17066274. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pleasure Train (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.