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Three Dog Night: Underappreciated Hitmakers
Classic rock History.com ^ | Michael Miller

Posted on 07/30/2023 8:25:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Three Dog Night was huge during the late 1960s and early 1970s, but underappreciated today. Too many younger listeners have never heard of the group and many older listeners have forgotten about them. Classic hits radio plays precious few of their many hits and they seldom show up on Spotify playlists. They simply don’t have the continuing legacy of other big groups of that era.

The reality is that there were few groups bigger than Three Dog Night in their prime and the group deserves more recognition today. What happened to that talented group of hitmakers—and why have they faded from our collective memory? It’s an interesting story

(Excerpt) Read more at classicrockhistory.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; threedognight
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To: clashfan

Hoyt also wrote Never Been to Spain. They had to change the lyrics though. They went from “in Oklahoma or a coma” to “in Oklahoma or Arizona, what does it matter “.


21 posted on 07/30/2023 9:35:03 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: willarryk

Name one of their hits that they wrote.


22 posted on 07/30/2023 9:35:52 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

Name one Frank Sinatra wrote.


23 posted on 07/30/2023 9:41:04 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: DallasBiff

You sent me down a bunnyhole for 3 hours.

Great time-warp.

Thanks for posting.


24 posted on 07/30/2023 10:03:01 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Right Brother

“Name one of their hits that they wrote.”

What difference does that make? Either you enjoy the music or you don’t. Its personal taste.


25 posted on 07/30/2023 10:03:06 PM PDT by willarryk
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To: DallasBiff

They blew it all on drugs.


26 posted on 07/30/2023 10:58:57 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: willarryk

Mama Told Me Not To Come ... but here I am on Free Republic at 2:30 in the morning 😆


27 posted on 07/30/2023 11:48:38 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: DallasBiff

Greatest 5:01 in TV history ...

https://youtu.be/O3fl2ENXITQ


28 posted on 07/31/2023 12:46:30 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If y ...a wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: DallasBiff

TDN’s Harmony album was the first album I ever owned. Man, I played that thing to death.


29 posted on 07/31/2023 1:27:03 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yea well ,I thought John Lennon was crap .


30 posted on 07/31/2023 2:41:33 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Classic studio-funded, earworm kind of band.

Yuck!


31 posted on 07/31/2023 2:46:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: willarryk

Or lack thereof.


32 posted on 07/31/2023 2:47:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DallasBiff

In 1990 I was dating a guy quite a bit younger than I was — a co-worker. One day when I got to the office he said that on his way to work he had heard a really good “new group — Three Dog Night”.

I figured the age difference was going to be a problem, so broke it off.


33 posted on 07/31/2023 2:52:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Repeal The 17th

“1970-Mama Told Me Not To Come
1975-Try A Little Tenderness”

My favorites of their pieces.


34 posted on 07/31/2023 2:56:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: SeekAndFind
Why did they name the Bullfrog, Jeremiah ?

Chuck didn't fit the rhythm of the song

35 posted on 07/31/2023 2:59:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Manic_Episode

Their music was fun! I was a kid, 12 or so when Joy to the World came out, and I loved their songs. Those were the days when WABC NY (later went to WCBS) played all the hits of the day.


36 posted on 07/31/2023 3:30:02 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: DIRTYSECRET; Chad C. Mulligan

So did I.

Catchy toonage but way overplayed and treachle-y.


37 posted on 07/31/2023 3:45:31 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: DallasBiff

Not by me.

I liked them.


38 posted on 07/31/2023 4:11:43 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Brandonmark

A fun favorite song.

They had scope.


39 posted on 07/31/2023 4:12:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Because Robert wasn’t a bullfrog.


40 posted on 07/31/2023 4:14:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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