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"Celebrate" is a song written by Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon and performed by Three Dog Night. It was featured on their 1969 album, Suitable for Framing [1] and was produced by Gabriel Mekler. [2] In the US, "Celebrate" peaked at #15 on the Billboard chart in 1970. [3] Outside the US, "Celebrate" reached #8 in Canada. [4]
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 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.
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 ...
Now in its fifth decade, legendary band Three Dog Night, is coming to Columbus on March 9 to play in Mershon Auditorium on the Ohio State University campus.. In the years 1969 through 1974, no ...
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 ...