Three Dog Night

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Three Dog Night was an American rock and roll band active from 1968 to 1975. Their first gold record was "One" in 1969, followed by "Easy To Be Hard" from the musical Hair. They had three number one songs: "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Joy to the World", and "Black and White".

The band included three lead vocalists — Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells — and Michael Allsup on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie (from the Cory Wells Blues Band) on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards.

The band was the protegé of Beach Boys producer, composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist Brian Wilson, and initially went by the name Redwood. The band changed their name based on an article describing how Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three-dog night."

Three Dog Night collected no fewer than fourteen gold albums and recorded twenty-one Billboard Top 40 hits, nine of which went gold. Dunhill, their record company, claimed 40 million units sold by them.

Their use of songs by Randy Newman ("Mama Told Me Not to Come", their only Top 10 hit in the UK), Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming"), Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World"), Elton John & Bernie Taupin ("Lady Samantha"), Leo Sayer ("The Show Must Go On"), and Harry Nilsson ("One") were the first major hits for songs by these singer/songwriters.

Joe Schermie quit in 1973 and was replaced by Jack Ryland. The band then became an eight-piece with the induction of another keyboards player, Skip Konte. However, by this time the band had stopped recording and they broke up in 1975.

In the mid-1980s Three Dog Night began appearing again, and as of 2006 they are still touring actively. The current lineup features founding members Wells and Hutton on lead vocals, keyboardist Greenspoon and guitarist Allsup, with new members Paul Kingery on bass & vocals and Pat Bautz on drums.

Chuck Negron is no longer with the band, but on March 26, 2006 he was featured on an episode of the A&E reality show, Intervention. His son, also named Chuck, was heavily addicted to heroin.

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Discography

  • "One" (US chart #5)
  • "Try a Little Tenderness" (#29)
  • "Eli's Coming" (#10)
  • "Easy to Be Hard" (#4)
  • "Celebrate" (#15)
  • "One Man Band" (#19)
  • "Liar" (#7)
  • "Joy to the World" (#1)
  • "Never Been to Spain" (#5)
  • "The Family of Man" (#12)
  • "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (#4)
  • "Black and White" (#1)
  • "Pieces of April" (#19)
  • "Shambala" (#3)
  • "Let Me Serenade You" (#17)
  • "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (#16)
  • "The Show Must Go On" (#4)
  • "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (#33)
  • "Til The World Ends" (#32)
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