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The album Three Dog Night was a success with its hit songs "Nobody", "Try A Little Tenderness", and "One" and helped the band gain recognition and become one of the top-drawing concert acts of their time. [14] Between 1969 and 1972 they had 13 songs in a row reach the Top 10 on the Canadian RPM charts.
"Never Been to Spain" is a song written by Hoyt Axton, [1] originally released on his 1971 LP Joy to the World and later that year performed by Three Dog Night, with Cory Wells on lead vocal. [2] It was featured on their 1971 album Harmony. [3] The recording was produced by Richard Podolor. [4]
The final Top 40 hit for Three Dog Night, "Til the World Ends" reached #32 on the Hot 100 in Billboard also ranking on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart with a #11 peak. [3] Outside of the US, "Til the World Ends" went to #26 on the Canadian pop chart in 1975, [ 4 ] and reached #9 on the Canadian adult contemporary chart .
A member of Three Dog Night said that the original lyrics to the song were "Jeremiah was a prophet" but no one liked it. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When Hoyt Axton performed the song to the group, two of the three main vocalists – Danny Hutton and Cory Wells – rejected the song, but Chuck Negron felt that the band needed a "silly song" to help bring the ...
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 ...
The song's composer Dave Loggins had recorded "Pieces of April" for his 1972 debut album Personal Belongings from which it was single-released in January 1973. That was the same month the Three Dog Night version reached the Top 20, with Loggins' single release evidently being an attempt to generate a C&W hit.
"Shambala" is a song written by Daniel Moore and made famous by two near-simultaneous releases in 1973: the better-known but slightly later recording by Three Dog Night, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a version by B. W. Stevenson. Its title derives from a mythical place-name also spelled Shamballa or Shambhala.
Released in the first year of Earth Day, "Out in the Country" was an early environmental advocacy song. The lyrics are about finding solace outside the city, "before the breathing air is gone..." Cash Box described the song as having "Attractive material and an exciting TDN delivery [that] give the team another top forty blockbuster." [7]