Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1967, founded by vocalists Chuck Negron, Cory Wells and Danny Hutton. The lineup was soon expanded with Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass guitar), Michael Allsup (guitar) and Floyd Sneed (drums). Between 1969 and 1975, the band scored 21 Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, including three No. 1 singles. Three Dog Night recorded many songs written by outside songwriters and helped introduce mainstream audiences to writers such as Harry Nilsson (“One”), Randy Newman (“Mama Told Me Not to Come”), Paul Williams (“An Old Fashioned Love Song”), Laura Nyro (“Eli’s Comin’”) and Hoyt Axton (“Joy to the World”, “Never Been to Spain”). According to the commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975, vocalist Danny Hutton’s girlfriend, actress June Fairchild (best known as the “Ajax Lady” in the 1978 Cheech & Chong film Up in Smoke), suggested the name. She had read an article about Aboriginal Australians explaining that on cold nights they would sleep while embracing a dingo, a native wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs, and on freezing nights it was a “three dog night.” Musician Van Dyke Parks, an arranger at Warner Bros. Records, disputed this story and claimed he coined the name.
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Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
Shambala
Old Fashioned Love Song
The Show Must Go On
Joy To The World
One
Pieces Of April
Never Been To Spain
Black and White
Easy To Be Hard
Out In the Country
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