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A better-known cover version, recorded by Three Dog Night, reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [4] in 1969 and number four in Canada. In 1969, the song was also recorded by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, reaching number four on the Go-Set National Top 40 Chart. [5]
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 ...
Three Dog Night (also known as One) is the debut album by American rock band Three Dog Night. The album was originally released by Dunhill Records on October 16, 1968. [1] The album is known for featuring the band's Top 5 hit single, their cover of Harry Nilsson's song "One". The album made the Top 20 on the albums charts in the United States ...
Three Dog Nightmare, Chuck Negron. Renaissance Books 1st edition (June 1999); ISBN 1-58063-040-5; One Is the Loneliest Number: On the Road and Behind the Scenes With the Legendary Rock Band Three Dog Night, Greenspoon, Jimmy and Bago, Mark. Pharos Books (January 1991); ISBN 0-88687-647-8
James Boyd Greenspoon (February 7, 1948 – March 11, 2015) was an American keyboard player and composer, best known as a member of the band Three Dog Night.. Greenspoon performed and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, America, The Beach Boys, Beck, Bogert & Appice, Nils Lofgren, Lowell George, Kim Fowley, Donovan, Buddy Miles, Stephen Stills, Jeff Beck, Chris Hillman ...
The Best of 3 Dog Night: Released: 1982; Label: MCA (6018) Format: stereo LP/cassette/CD — — — RIAA: Gold [4] Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975: Released: December 7, 1993; Label: MCA (MCAD/C2-10956) Format: double CD/double Cassette — — — 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Three Dog ...
Highlights: the hit version of Randy Newman's 'Mama Told Me Not to Come,' with just the right admixture of high-spirited schlock to turn it into the AM giant it deserves to be, and a departure from pre-Beatles times called "Good Feeling (1957)."
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 ...