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Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in 1967, founded by vocalists Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton. This lineup was soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass), Michael Allsup (guitar), and Floyd Sneed (drums).
"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 ...
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 ...
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.
The song was recorded by Three Dog Night in 1969, [3] on their 1969 albums Suitable for Framing (for which see note on piano outro) and Captured Live at the Forum.Their studio version reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 [4] and number 4 in Canada's RPM Magazine charts.
Three Dog Night's version is used to great effect in the 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson film Boogie Nights, playing as Eddie Adams first arrives at Jack Horner's home after Eddie's fight with his mother. It would also later appear in Terry Gilliam's 1998 movie adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 1972 gonzo novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Due to ...