Three Dog Night was an American rock and roll band active from 1968 to 1975. Their first gold record was "One" in
1969, followed by "Easy To Be Hard" from the musical Hair. They had three number one songs: "Mama Told Me Not to
Come," "Joy to the World", and "Black and White". The band included three lead vocalists — Danny Hutton, Chuck
Negron, and Cory Wells — and Michael Allsup on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie (from the Cory Wells Blues
Band) on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards. The band was the protegé of Beach Boys producer, composer,
vocalist, and instrumentalist Brian Wilson, and initially went by the name Redwood. The band changed their name based
on an article describing how Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a
"three-dog night." Three Dog Night collected no fewer than fourteen gold albums and recorded twenty-one Billboard Top
40 hits, nine of which went gold. Dunhill, their record company, claimed 40 million units sold by them.
In the mid-1980s Three Dog Night began appearing again, and as of 2006 they are still touring actively. The current lineup
features founding members Wells and Hutton on lead vocals, keyboardist Greenspoon and guitarist Allsup, with new
members Paul Kingery on bass & vocals and Pat Bautz on drums. Source: Wikipedia
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