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The commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton's girlfriend, actress June Fairchild (best known as the "Ajax Lady" from the Cheech and Chong movie Up In Smoke) suggested the name after reading a magazine article about Aboriginal Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep ...
"An Old Fashioned Love Song" is a 1971 song written by Paul Williams and performed by the American pop-rock band Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron performed the lead vocal on this track. Taken as the first single from their 1971 album, Harmony , the song peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1971, becoming the band's seventh ...
"Easy to Be Hard" is a song from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot , James Rado , and Gerome Ragni , who put the musical together in the mid-1960s. The original recording of the musical featuring the song was released in May 1968 with the song being sung by Lynn Kellogg , who performed the role of Sheila on stage in ...
Three Dog Night. While the expectation of seeing Three Dog Night was a baby boomerfest, the band's set at Summerfest's Uline Warehouse Thursday night was not. Every age was represented in the ...
On colder nights, they would sleep with two dogs; and if the night was freezing, it was called a "three-dog night". [6] Musician Van Dyke Parks has disputed this claim, however, and says he, not Fairchild, came up with the name from the magazine. The band's first Top Ten hit was "One" in 1969. "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" reached #1 a year later.
In 1967, singer Danny Hutton invited Negron to join him and Cory Wells to found the band Three Dog Night.The group became one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, selling approximately 60 million records and earning gold records for singles that featured Negron as lead singer, including "One," "Easy To Be Hard," "Joy to the World," "Old Fashioned Love Song" and "The ...
Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975 is a two-CD anthology of Three Dog Night recordings released in 1993 which includes some pre-3DN material from co-lead singers Danny Hutton and Cory Wells (none from Chuck Negron), as well as an unreleased track "Time to Get Alone", penned and produced by Brian Wilson from the band's brief "Redwood" incarnation.
It was most famously performed by Three Dog Night and featured on their 1971 album, Harmony. [2] In the US, "The Family of Man" reached #12 on the Hot 100 and #27 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart. [3] Outside of the US, "The Family of Man" peaked at #5 in Canada. [4]