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…