Three Dog Night

Iconic American band THREE DOG NIGHT, now celebrating its 6th decade, boasts some of the most astonishing chart statistics in popular music with 21 consecutive Billboard Top 40 hits, including 3 #1 singles and 12 straight RIAA Certified Gold LPs.

Created in 1968 by Irish-born Danny Hutton, the group was conceived to feature three strong vocalists who shared leads and blended together in three-part harmony, complemented by four instrumentalists to create a self-contained unit. This became Three Dog Night’s signature sound in the studio and live on the road.

Working with the studio duo of Richie Podolor and Bill Cooper at American Recording, they resurrected and recreated songs by songwriters of the time including Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Elton John, Laura Nyro, Paul Williams, and Hoyt Axton. The band’s eclectic taste and arranging talents, combined with the ability to recognize and record hits in a distinctive style, resulted in Three Dog Night dominating the charts for years, earning a Grammy nomination, performing at two Super Bowls, and becoming ubiquitous on radio and in film and television.

From their debut eponymous album, Three Dog Night went on to release 12 gold albums and by 1975, driven by chart-topping songs like “One,” “Easy to Be Hard,” “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” “Joy to the World,” “Black and White,” and “Shambala,” the band had sold over 50 million records. During that time they toured relentlessly, quickly moving from smaller venues to selling out stadiums, helping to establish the modern concept of a stadium tour.

Hutton, a denizen of the Laurel Canyon and Sunset Blvd music scenes, was established as a songwriter, producer, and recording artist. He worked as a writer/producer for the label established by the Hanna-Barbera animation studio and was immortalized as a character on The Flintstones. Hutton had several regional hits as a solo artist, was invited to join the Sonny and Cher tour where he met Cory Wells, and they recruited Chuck Negron to complete the original sound.

Initially the trio planned to work with Brian Wilson and record for the Beach Boys' Brother Records; Wilson had christened them “Redwood” and they began work on several tunes, but that project was abandoned. After a showcase at Hollywood’s Troubadour and attracting label interest, Hutton signed the group to ABC Dunhill records. They assembled talented musicians to form a self-contained band for both touring and recording, allowing them to hone a specific sound and remain independent of the era’s studio-only musicians.

The band’s name derives from the tale of outback hunters who sleep with their dingoes on cold nights—the coldest being a "three dog night." Three Dog Night continues to perform over 80 shows a year, thrilling multigenerational audiences by delivering those larger-than-life songs with customary impeccable harmonies over a hard-driving rock and roll foundation.

This year, Three Dog Night will release Enter, its first studio album in nearly 40 years. Again working with Bill Cooper from the original production team, Hutton and the band present a body of eclectic material, including songs penned by Hutton. The project was recorded at Canyon Hut studios, adjacent to the house in Laurel Canyon that Danny purchased from Alice Cooper over four decades ago.

THREE DOG NIGHT’s Top 40 hits include:
- "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"
- "Joy to the World"
- "Black and White"
- "Shambala"
- "Easy to Be Hard"
- "An Old Fashioned Love Song"
- "One"
- "The Show Must Go On"
- "Never Been to Spain"
- "Eli’s Coming"
- "The Family of Man"
- "Liar"
- "Celebrate"
- "Out in the Country"
- "Pieces of April"
- "One Man Band"

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