{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sometimes You Win | type = studio | artist = Dr. Hook | cover = Sometimes_You_Win.jpg | alt = | released = October 5, 1979 | recorded = 1978, March–July 1979 | venue = | studio = Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Alabama; The Sound Lab, Nashville, Tennessee | genre = Soft rock, disco<ref name=AM>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sometimes-you-win-mw0000656917|title = Sometimes You Win - Dr. Hook | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website = AllMusic}}</ref> | length = 32:31 | label = Capitol | producer = Ron Haffkine | chronology = Dr. Hook | prev_title = Pleasure and Pain | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = Rising | next_year = 1980 }} '''''Sometimes You Win''''' is a studio album by the American band Dr. Hook, released in 1979. It was produced by Ron Haffkine.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carmack |first1=Michael |title=Dr. Hook: Just wild and crazy musicians |work=The Globe and Mail |date=5 July 1980 |page=E3}}</ref>
The album contains three of the band's most commercially successful singles: "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (also included on their previous album ''Pleasure and Pain''), "Better Love Next Time" and "Sexy Eyes."
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=AM/> }} ''The Boston Globe'' noted that the "seven-piece aggregation has sweetened its sound with strings and delves into disco with a selection of strong material that should appeal to dancers and listeners alike."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Long |first1=Tom |title=Dr. Hook Sometimes You Win |work=The Boston Globe |date=10 Jan 1980 |department=Calendar |page=1}}</ref>
AllMusic deemed the album "something close to a soft rock-disco masterpiece."<ref name=AM/>
==Track listing== #"Better Love Next Time" (Johnny Slate, Larry Keith, Steve Pippin) – 2:59 #"In Over My Head" (Dan Tyler, Eddie Rabbitt, Even Stevens) – 3:40 #"Sexy Eyes" (Bob Mather, Chris Waters, Keith Stegall) – 3:30 #"Oh! Jesse" (Sam Weedman) – 2:54 #"Years From Now" (Charles Cochran, Roger Cook) – 3:14 #"I Don't Feel Much Like Smilin'" (Dennis Locorriere, Ray Sawyer) - 2:41 #"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (Even Stevens) - 3:00 #"What Do You Want?" (Eddie Rabbitt, Even Stevens) – 3:08 #"Love Monster" (Sam Weedman) – 3:10 #"Mountain Mary" (Ray Sawyer, Shel Silverstein) – 2:37 #"Help Me Mama" (Ray Sawyer, Shel Silverstein) – 4:02
==Personnel== ;Dr. Hook * Ray Sawyer - Guitar, Vocals * Dennis Locorriere - Guitar, Vocals * Billy Francis - Keyboards, Vocals * John Wolters - Drums, Vocals * Rik Elswit - Guitar, Vocals * Jance Garfat - Bass * Bob "Willard" Henke - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals ;Additional musicians *Barry Beckett, Billy Puett, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Carr (guitar), Jon Goin, Larry Byrom, Mickey Buckins, Randy McCormick, Rod Smarr, Roger Hawkins, Shane Keister *Diane Tidwell, Lisa Silver, Sheri Kramer, The Cherry Sisters - backing vocals *The Nashville Horns - horns *The Shelly Kurland Strings - strings
;Production * Pat Holt - Engineer * James Cotton - Engineer *Michael Kanarek - front cover design and illustration
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Chart !! Peak<br>position |- | rowspan="2"|1979 |Australia Kent Music Report<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=94}}</ref> |align="center"|50 |- |''Billboard'' 200<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190106124634/https://www.billboard.com/music/dr-hook/chart-history/billboard-200/song/314656 Billboard Charts - Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win]</ref> |align="center"|71 |}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show}}
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