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Greatest Hits Live | 
 enlarge | Artist: Three Dog Night
Label: Shout Factory
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 14965
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 10969
UPC: 826663109696
EAN: 0826663109696
ASIN: B001CITRCQ
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | One Man Band - Three Dog Night, Fox, Billy [1] | | • | The Family of Man - Three Dog Night, Conrad, Jack | | • | Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night, MacDermot, Galt | | • | Never Been to Spain - Three Dog Night, Axton, Hoyt | | • | Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night, Newman, Randy | | • | An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night, Williams, Paul | | • | Eli's Coming - Three Dog Night, Nyro, Laura | | • | Liar - Three Dog Night, Ballard, Russ | | • | Celebrate - Three Dog Night, Bonner, Gary | | • | Try a Little Tenderness - Three Dog Night, Campbell, Jimmy [Fi | | • | One - Three Dog Night, Nilsson, Harry | | • | Joy to the World - Three Dog Night, Axton, Hoyt |
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Album Description
In 1972 Three Dog Night was truly a golden animal. Singers Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton and Cory Wells had already led their group into the Top 20 no less than 14 times since their 1968 debut, earning three #1 Billboard singles along the way. The tracks included on this album were recorded during the group's 1972/'73 world tour, an ambitious jaunt that took them from North America to Europe, Japan and Australia. By that time Three Dog Night had racked up such now-classic hits as "One," "Easy To Be Hard," "Celebrate," "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" and "Joy To The World".
Album Description
Three Dog Night's Greatest Hits Live with Never-Released Live Performances From 1972-1973 recorded at the peak of their career! This CD contains 8 Top 10 hit songs performed live and features never-before-released live versions of the #1 hits 'Joy to The World', 'Mama Told Me (Not To Come)' and 'An Old Fashioned Love Song'. In 1972 Three Dog Night was truly a golden animal. Singers Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton and Cory Wells had already led their group into the Top 20 no less than 14 times since their 1968 debut, earning three #1 Billboard singles along the way. The tracks included on this album were recorded during the group's 1972/'73 world tour, an ambitious jaunt that took them from North America to Europe, Japan and Australia. By that time Three Dog Night had racked up such now-classic hits as 'One', 'Easy To Be Hard', 'Celebrate', 'Mama Told Me (Not To Come)' and 'Joy To The World'.
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 A Great Live Album December 3, 2008
I won't rewrite what others have already said, but this a major release from a great band. The band is in top form on all of the cuts, and the quality of the recording is fantastic--it sounds like you're right there at the concert. Danny, Chuck, Cory--if any of you read this: you only live once, how about one more tour with the original band? You all still sound amazing live, it would no doubt be a huge success!
 A Great Addition!! November 6, 2008
This is a "must have" for all Three Dog Night fans. This addition to the Around The World disc now gives you just about every hit and favorite in a live version from the TDN catalog. However, missing from this live cd, as well as just about every other live cd from TDN is Chest Fever. Any TDN concert going fan knows that the band likes Chest Fever and Spooner loves it, but for some reason it is left out of every live cd (except Live at the Forum). For me, no TDN Live CD will ever be complete without the addition of Chest Fever.
Wonderful Surprise for 2008 October 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So who'da thunk we, the fans, would be so surprised by a release like this in 2008? Surely not I. But they (Chuck?) did it to us, and we're better off for it, I can assure you. There was no expectation of anything sonically spectacular this time around, given the fact that I own both of their live recordings on vinyl and CD. Nothing sonically impressive with those, believe me. But at least the older recordings captured 3DN live, reminding us of the reactions from those of us fortunate enough to have spent the big bucks back then to see and hear and experience them in concert ($7.50 - I still have my 2 different concert stubs from 1969 and 1970).
But THIS ONE was done soooo right. Yes, it is a bit too short (ergo only 4 stars), but what we DO get is fabulous! And the liner notes (make that a great 12-page booklet) reveal the mixdown studio, engineer, and producers: non other than Chuck Negron and Carlos Murguia. Wow! They got it! Full credits are given for the new work as well as the original recording credits.
And listing facts like "Reconstruction..aligning, cleaning all open tracks and guideline mixes" are just some of the issues addressed in the credit section. Together, they cleaned up the tapes and got the sound to come closer to the ears of 2008 than of those/ours of 1969 or 1973. Listen to the upgraded killer bass and kick drum sound coming from Joe Schermie and Floyd Sneed, too.
And to see really well printed pictures in the booklet, group and individual, makes it so enjoyable after all these years. It really makes you miss Joe though, knowing that his passing in 2002 is a reminder that with every year that passes we stand to lose more than our good hearing and our hair. We also run the risk that we may never see a campaign by the record companies that still remain do a good job of getting their catalogue out in upgraded form...let alone a box set on the level of a band so successful and so unique as Three Dog Night.
To say nothing of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame...I know, I said to say nothing...so I won't....again. What a waste of an institution. But I digress.
Then again, if Chuck had this recording up his sleeve, does he/they have more surprises? And were they simply floating this disc out there to see what the response in sales might be? The clue may lie in the packaging copyrights that list "Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, & Danny Hutton under exclusive license to...". Do they have rights to their original recordings. Oh, dear Lord I hope so....
A Hard Night's Dog October 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Three Dog Night was one of those Groups that had serious Crossover appeal.
They performed great pop songs by top writers, arranged everything to a Rock beat, had three fantasic singers, a crack foursome of instrumentalists to back them, mixed their Rock music with Pop and Soul stylings, had a Live Act that nobody came close to besting. All of this made Three Dog Night a huge success between 1968-1974.
This new release of Live Dog from the World Tours of 1972 & 1973 finds our Heroes in Germany and England performing their Hits to sold-out venues packed with thousands of Fans. All the right stuff is indeed here; "One", "Easy To Be Hard", Mama Told Me {Not To Come}, "Eli's Coming", "Liar", "Celebrate", "Never Been To Spain", "Old Fashioned Love Song", "One Man Band" and the Encore/Singalong of: "Joy To The World".
Singers: Cory Wells, Danny Hutton and Chuck Negron are in top-form and doing what they do best, Singin' up a storm, Joking and Vamping for the girls and entertaining like the Seasoned Veterans they are. Behind the Three "Singing" Dogs, was one of the best Bands of players in the Business. Floyd Sneed: on Drums, Joe Schermie: playing Bass, Mike Allsup: Guitars and Jimmy Greenspoon: on all manner of Keyboards. These Four instrumental players are the secret Weapon of Three Dog Night, they deliver Hard Rock when needed and can lay back and play softly during the Ballads, adding just the right touches of Tone and Color that brings The Show up by more than just a few notches. This is about the most under-rated Group of it's day, a First Rate Rock Band that played Second-Fiddle to nobody else during their Heyday.
There are 2 other live CD's available by Three Dog Night: "Captured Live At The Forum" {1969} & "Around The World" {1973}, both of those Albums are very good and well worth owning. This one called: "Greatest Hits Live", is the Best of the Bunch. The Sound Quality is far better than the 1969 Set, and contains all the Tunes you want to hear from this Group {The 73 Lp's contained more Album Selections, this one is ALL Hit Songs, one after the next.}
Three Dog Night was known for their Top-40 sucess of Classic Songs. This CD shows just how good they were as a Performing Band that pleased the Fans from Tulsa to Tokyo. It's hard to listen to this and not smile all the way through. Three Dog Night, playing their Greatest Hits Live.
Four Stars !!!
Not Just Another "Hits" Collection October 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well, it took over 20 yrs. for "Around the World with Three Dog Night" to make it's CD debut (thanks to the UK's Edsel label), and now just 2 years later we get a more concise live collection from the same tour. The reason I don't give this a 5 Star rating is that two of the tracks (Family of Man, Liar) are the same performances as on "Around..." (although remixed to change the dynamic between vocals and band). They also missed the chance to rectify the fact that two other songs on the original release (Black & White, Out in the Country) were actually the original studio recordings edited in reasonably well (at least by 1973 standards). It would have been nice to hear how those sounded live back then. I guess they only recorded a small number of shows, and they weren't happy with the results. The only other negative with this release is that the crowd noise is somewhat muddy and "added on" in spots.
As far as the good news.... while the first reviewer here stated there was "no filler", I actually love the fact that there are three separate intros/interludes spread across the disc, from a 25 sec. drum lead-in to "Family of Man" to a 2 min. "mini-jam" just before "Liar". I just think these give a much better feel for what it was like to be at one of these shows, as far as focusing on the musicians as much as the vocalists. Then of course there are the four tunes that weren't included on the original double-LP.... "Easy to Be Hard", "Celebrate", "Try a Little Tenderness", and "One"... all excellent versions. The sound quality in general is very good, and there are no complaints here regarding the editing from track to track.
Some Comparisons to ATW Versions: I'm not sure what Randy Newman's original lyrics were, but this is the first time I've heard Cory sing "she's OD'd on the floor", as opposed to "passed out", in "Mama Told Me".... "Eli's Coming" is a more straightforward version here, without the extended "comic" intro.... Chuck gets a little screechy at the end of "Never Been to Spain".... there's some good audience sing-along stuff in "Joy to the World" that wasn't in the earlier version.
I don't know what it would take to get Chuck and Floyd back with the other four surviving original members at this point (will the Hall of Fame ever get it? Should anybody care anymore?).... but in the event that that never happens (and it probably doesn't help that Chuck refers to himself in the liner notes this way - "the fans called him their star"), hopefully it won't be long until some company steps in and gives us a quality box-set to dig into. None of us are getting any younger.... though collections like this can let us forget that once in a while.
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