Three Dog Night - any fans?

[Buried Alien]

Spent part of tonight listening to one of their compilations. I didn't know they had that many hits.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[howyadoin]

I don't have many of their tunes, but I love "Black and White", "An Old Fashioned Love Song", "One is the Loneliest Number", and especially "Shambala".

[Buried Alien]

I don't have many of their tunes, but I love "Black and White", "An Old Fashioned Love Song", "One is the Loneliest Number", and especially "Shambala".

I gave them all a spin tonight. Three Dog Night has never been a critics' favorite, but the band recorded good pop.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[K'Nort]

Joy to the World was the top single for the year I was born.

[E. Spears]

My dad listens to Three Dog Night all the time. Their name has been in my musical vocabulary before I even listened to music.

[Poka Lola Luau]

My Dad had Suitable for Framing. When you opened the album there was a picture of a lot of hippies in colorful clothes surrounded by watermelons and other fruit. Eli's Coming used to scare me when I was a little kid.

I turn the radio up whenever I hear Mama Told Me Not To Come, Celebrate, or Joy To The World.

[K'Nort]

Wolfgang Press did an awesome cover of Mama Told Me Not to Come. The original is excellent too, however.

[Expletive Deleted]

I have nothing against Three Dog Night, but I can't stand "Joy to the World."

Every [expletive] music teacher, every [expletive] camp counsellor, every [expletive] youth group leader . . . I've heard it and been forced to sing it so many times that even the faintest strains of it set my teeth on edge.

[Michael P]

I can't stand "One Is The Loneliest Number." I love the rest of their stuff though.

[Poka Lola Luau]

Wolfgang Press did an awesome cover of Mama Told Me Not to Come. The original is excellent too, however.

I'm not a musician, but if I were, I'd see what I could do with that song. The original is great but I'm thinking it could be taken slower or faster, add strange sound effacts, give it more of a blues feel, hip hop it, punk it out. Seems like it could be taken in a lot of directions and I'd like it.

[Neil]

I can't stand "One Is The Loneliest Number." I love the rest of their stuff though.
I completely agree.

Noting here since there's an implicit feel that Three Dog's Night record is the "original" version of "Mama Told Me Not To Come", I'm compelled to note that the original is by Randy Newman and was on his album "12 Songs". They did, however, originate the "That ain't no way to have fun, son." hook.

I like Three Dog Night a lot. I think they're one of those bands that fits in a weird place in the musical world where they're a little too deep to be a put-upon band that the fans love, but too hit-centric to be a critical darling, so they're just a band with a number of hits we all know.

I saw them live a few years back. They opened for The Beach Boys. They were very good, and unlike the headliner, still clearly interested in putting on a full-blown rock & roll show.

[Adam Crocker]

Every [expletive] music teacher, every [expletive] camp counsellor, every [expletive] youth group leader . . . I've heard it and been forced to sing it so many times that even the faintest strains of it set my teeth on edge.

Hmmmm with the power of camp councillor, I would make the children sing "I'm Waiting For the Man." Accompanied by a detuned guitar no less!

[Jonathan Bogart]

Noting here since there's an implicit feel that Three Dog's Night record is the "original" version of "Mama Told Me Not To Come", I'm compelled to note that the original is by Randy Newman and was on his album "12 Songs".
Thank you.

I'm more interested in the artists Three Dog Night covered than in Three Dog Night themselves. It feels weird to say (this is a big Abba fan talking), but they just aren't cool enough.

[Core]

I saw them live a few years back. They opened for The Beach Boys. They were very good, and unlike the headliner, still clearly interested in putting on a full-blown rock & roll show.

They are good live. My dad and I saw them do a show last summer, and we were both quite impressed with the energy of their performance. The live version of "Liar," in particular, stands out in my mind as one of the coolest concert experiences I've had.

[K'Nort]

I have nothing against Three Dog Night, but I can't stand "Joy to the World."

Every [expletive] music teacher, every [expletive] camp counsellor, every [expletive] youth group leader . . . I've heard it and been forced to sing it so many times that even the faintest strains of it set my teeth on edge.

On an autoharp?