
Artist
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night is a classic rock artist from Los Angeles, CA formed in 1968. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Classic Rock · Los Angeles, CA · Best classic rock albums
- 51
- Releases
- 1969–2025
- Active years
- 1968
- Formed

Artist
Three Dog Night is a classic rock artist from Los Angeles, CA formed in 1968. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Classic Rock · Los Angeles, CA · Best classic rock albums

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The Best of 3 Dog Night
1982 · 20 tracks

It Ain't Easy
1970

Naturally
1970

Suitable for Framing
1969

Three Dog Night
1969

Hard Labor
2011

Cyan
1973

Harmony
1971

Coming Down Your Way
1975

American Pastime
1976
Naturally / Golden Biscuits
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With the London Symphony Orchestra
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Super Hits Live
2025

35th Anniversary Hits Collection
2025

Comin' Down (Live London '72)
2025

Three Dog Night with the London Symphony Orchestra
2025

It's A Jungle Out There
2025

Live in Concert
2020

Around The World With Three Dog Night
2014

Captured Live At The Forum
2009

Greatest Hits Live
2008

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Three Dog Night
2007

Three Dog Night - The Complete Hit Singles
2004
Three Dog Night / Suitable for Framing
2004
Harmony / Cyan
2001
Suitable for Framing / Seven Separate Fools
2001
It Ain't Easy / Captured Live at the Forum
2001
Hard Labor / Coming Down Your Way
2001
Three Dog Night / American Pastime
2001
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Three Dog Night
2000

Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975
1993
Seven Separate Fools
1972

Mama Told Me Not to Come (Billboard Hot 100 - No 1)
Single · 2020

The Show Must Go On (Billboard Hot 100 - No 4)
Single · 2020

Pieces of April (Billboard Hot 100 - No 19)
Single · 2020

Joy
Single · 2020

Til the World Ends (Billboard Hot 100 - No 32)
Single · 2020

Liar (Billboard Hot 100 - No 7)
Single · 2020

Shambala (Billboard Hot 100 - No 3)
Single · 2020

An Old Fashioned Love Song
Single · 2020

Black and White (Billboard Hot 100 - No 1)
Single · 2020

Joy to the World (UK Chart Top 40 - No. 24)
Single · 2020

Joy to the World (Billboard Hot 100 - No 1)
Single · 2020

Eli's Coming (Billboard Hot 100 - No 10)
Single · 2020

Mama Told Me Not to Come (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 3)
Single · 2020

One (Billboard Hot 100 - No 5)
Single · 2020

Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) (Billboard Hot 100 - No 33)
Single · 2020

One Man Band (Billboard Hot 100 - No 19)
Single · 2020

Try a Little Tenderness (Billboard Hot 100 - No 29)
Single · 2020

The Family of Man (Billboard Hot 100 - No 12)
Single · 2020

Never Been to Spain (Billboard Hot 100 - No 5)
Single · 2020
Three Dog Night scored a succession of 21 hit singles, including eleven Top Tens, and twelve consecutive gold albums from 1969 to 1975, thanks to the slick, sometimes soulful vocal harmonies of singers Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells and an excellent ear for quality material. While often criticized as commercial, the band was noted for its creative arrangements and interpretations, and their cover choices gave exposure (and royalties) to several talented songwriters: Nilsson ("One"), Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming"), Randy Newman ("Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"), Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World"), Argent's Russ Ballard ("Liar"), and Leo Sayer ("The Show Must Go On"). Wells and Hutton met in the '60s while the former was the lead singer of the Enemies and the latter, a writer/producer for Hanna Barbera Records who had recorded several singles, served as producer. In 1967, Hutton conceived the idea of a three-vocalist group, and he and Wells enlisted mutual friend Negron. They took their name from an Australian expression describing low nocturnal temperatures in the outback (the colder the night, the more dogs needed to keep warm while sleeping). The three cut a few unsuccessful si…