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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 the years 1969 through 1974, no other group has achieved more top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets than Three Dog Night, according to press materials.
"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.
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