Your favorite Three Dog Night song?

[ForrestGump]

I think these versatile dudes really pumped out some good music....

My vote's for "Mama Told Me," though I love everything I've yet heard of theirs.

[Aristus]

1. I love "Old Fashioned Love Song" but I had to go with

"Joy to the World" 'cause it's such a happy song!

[kmla]

2. You didn't include "Shambala"!

My all-time fave 3DN song!

Such a happy, sunny day kinda tune!

[terryg11]

6. two fer Shambala

it's sweet.

[MrBenchley]

10. three for Shambala

How does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala?

[mac56]

11. Make it four for "Shambala".

nt

[Best_man23]

15. Another vote for Shambala

This is a great song.

Wash away my trouble, wash away my pain
With the rain of Shambala
Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame
With the rain of Shambala

[displacedvermoter]

3. They did a great cover of "Chest Fever"

which I really liked!

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Out In The Country

Had this hippie environmentalist song on a 45 when I was 4 or 5, and even then I loved the song......

Out In The Country

(Paul Williams/Roger Nichols)

Whenever I need to leave it all behind
Or feel the need to get away
I find a quiet place, far from the human race
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Whenever I feel them closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast, I find relief at last
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime...

I stand alone...

[GOPisEvil]

5. I'm with you Forrest!

Mama Told Me (Not To Come) is a great song! :D

[FlashHarry]

8. I like the Stereophonics/Tom Jones version...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Me too ! I love the entire RELOAD CD!

[Papa]

7. I once sang Joy to the World once...

I was in 1st grade and decided for some reason to sing Joy to the World to a classmate who was having a birthday. I got two of my friends and we got in front of the class and I sang it. I knew about 3/4ths of the lyrics including the "help him to drink his wine" part.

I wonder what my teacher was thinking....

Papa

[Bake]

9. Out in the Country

My fave too, although it was close with Celebrate (which brings back memories of high school formals).

Bake

[cmd]

12. I keep frogs in my backyard pond

Everyone of them is named Jeremiah. A few of them get a special designation like Jeremiah the Big One, or Jeremiah the Dead, or Jeremiah the Living. My daughter just brought me a wooden frog that croaks when you rub a stick across his back. His name? Jeremiah. Have you figured out how I voted yet?

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. I named my son Jeremy after Jeremiah

Hubby vetoed Jeremiah

Jeremy loved that song. I lost him in 1988 , and I am righ now shedding tears just thinking about it

Joy to the World

and joy to you and me

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Whaaaaa...no Easy to be Hard????

[SiobhanClancy]

17. My thoughts exactly..

I kept reading the poll,thinking SURELY I'd just missed it. My vote is clearly for that one:)

[Bake]

19. Easy To Be Hard: Oh man that's a GREAT one!!

They were a quite talented group. Other than doing that PBS special a while back, does anybody know what they're doing these days?

Bake

[ForrestGump]

21. It's pretty easy,

I find. :D

[AlabamaYankee]

18. "King Soloman's Mines"

An all percussion piece that is a small gem.

[Robb]

20. As a sled dog owner...

...I feel compelled to inform those who don't know that the term "three dog night" is known to mushers as a night in a tent/igloo that's so cold, you don't want the added warmth of any less than three dogs cuddling yer feets.

So there. :)

[ForrestGump]

22. Three dawgs

I believe that they got the name from a reference that Australian aborigines make to how cool the night is, adding and subtracting dogs as appropriate in the same time-honored way as do your friendly-neighborhood mushers.

More fascinating factoids!.....

Country-singer Hoyt Axton wrote both "Never Been To Spain" and "Joy to the World" (maybe others that Three Dog Night recorded). Hoyt was the son of Mae Axton, who wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."

Elvis Presley performed "Never Been To Spain" live during 1972 - immortalized on the gold LP "Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden" and in the Golden Globe-winning film "Elvis On Tour" - and I think that makes the Axtons the only parent-offspring songwriters to have been recorded by Elvis. I like Elvis' versions of "Never Been To Spain" better than Three Dog Night's, but my boy Chuck Negron sure could belt out a song, too. He's got to have one of the more powerful and far-ranging voices of the '60s-'70s era groups (not that power and range have since been seen much on the pop music landscape).

[Lindsey]

23. Out in the Country and Easy to be Hard

two really great songs!