[EXCLUSIVE]
First Time Available on CD. Originally Released in 1976. Produced by Richard Podolor. Features Mike Allsup (Guitar/Vocals), Floyd Sneed (Percussion/Drums), and Bobby Kimball (Keyboards/Vocals).
In 1976, the legendary Three Dog Night imploded after a mostly stellar career. Some of the guys had already abandoned ship and moved on and what was left in the ashheap was more like 2 Dog Night with a bunch of pedestrian studio musicians.
First, a little detailed latter day history of Three Dog Night:
Years of infighting and drug abuse took their toll on the group and the once proud band went out like a dog with its tail between its legs. The last two 3DN albums (Coming Down Your Way & American Pastime) were, well……dogs. Embarrassingly bad, they both bombed on the charts. Especially the latter Bob Monaco produced effort – by which time most of the band had bailed. Of the 3 singers, Danny Hutton was out – only Chuck and Cory remained (still talking in those days!) All but one of the original guys in the band were gone.
The music? Dreadful. The song choices were pathetic, the spirit and the passion were gone, and the Dog basically chucked the sound that made them famous.
Meantime the core of the original musicians Mike Alsup, Joe Shermie and Floyd Sneed soldiered on, picked up a couple of other guys and formed a new group that actually sounded more at times like the original band than did the latter day so called “3 Dog Night”.
1. First Things First
2. Desert Dancin’
3. Tearbanks
4. Baby’s Callin’ Me Home
5. Fool Hard-e
6. I Just Love The Feelin’
7. Sunnyridge
8. Whatever Happend To America
9. Why Can’t You