Three Dog Night - Fabulous Hits - RadioDAZZ Picks

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Three Dog Night had some fabulous hits in the mid-1970s. With their full vocal harmonies, excellent songwriting and arranging, and simple instrumental production, they had a fresh, real rock sound. String-bending guitar solos (with distortion as necessary), simple backbone electric bass and the awe-inspiring Hammond B3 organ and Leslie Speaker system, they were portable and powerful. The music was (and still is all upbeat, bright, live and fresh.

Her on The RadioDAZZ Blog, we've decided to showcase several of their most iconic, classic songs. Some of the videos are of live performances, while some are just amateur space savers. But understand this: The music, the sound, the burst of adrenalin and endorphins you'll experience when you listen to this music at a respectable volume level (get your bass boost on).

The song links follow. Click on each, crank up the volume and savor the 1970s brightness. Then come back and click on the next.


MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4


ONE (IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER)  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU&feature=fvwrel


OUT IN THE COUNTRY (A RadioDAZZ Favorite)* 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1tF6LgB40


EASY TO BE HARD (From The Broadway Musical, "Hair")  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXcaRYNlSQ&feature=related


ELI'S COMING (Written by songstress Laura Nyro)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CuNBengxaQ&feature=related


*Lyrics to OUT IN THE COUNTRY


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...
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SQUEEZE - Fabulous Energy Boost - MusiDAZZical

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The truth be told, SQUEEZE is an amazingly prolific, sophisticated British rock band. Great sound, great catalog of hits ("Tempted," "Pulling Muscles From A Shell," "Black Coffee In Bed"). They brough a fresh, clean sound and an hysterical lyric wit to the 1980s and a chunk of the 1990s.

They were perpetually jilted fellows, and they loved to sing about it with sarcasm and stoicism. My absolute favorite of all time was "Another Nail In My Heart," which brought to mind a sound to rival the Monroes. Great horse-kickin' drums, powerful shouting harmonies and a sound that made you want to dance.

Their instrumentation (love that Hammond organ with a Leslie speaker sound), great guitar work, and steady power cadence drumming. Hit makers

My friend and musical advisor, Jay, brought a song of theirs to my attention that just knocked me out. It haunted me. It badgered me. I couldn't get the sound out of my head. It was pure 1970s rock n roll with a serious SQUEEZE refacing and upgrade. The song never got enough airplay!!! What were we doing in 1993? Look what we were missing!

It is called "Everything In The World," and it is a fabulous, fabulous tune. It's got love, loss, sarcasm, stoicism, visual lyrics (?), and a damned guy in love waiting at the airport for a lover who never arrives. Great beat. Great vocal. Great lyrics. Super story.

Do your Uncle DAZZ a major favor. Play this song. Twice. Loud. Let your feet boogie a bit.

Then, send this article out to everyone in the world you know by email, text, and through every social media channel that hasn't banned you. These guys deserve it. This song is nothing less than unappreciated, underplayed genius. Let's make it GO VIRAL.

Spread the word. It's about "Everything In The World" by SQUEEZE! 

Please! (And Thanks!)

From the album Some Fantastic Place released in 1993.
Another great tune by the song writing duo of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.
Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUZTaQijGYw


Friends: Remember! The group's SQUEEZE. The buried treasure is Called "EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD." Spread it around. Talk it up. Pay it forward. Play it on. Forget the video.

Just close your eyes and listen!!! Let's get circulatin' here!

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Freeze Frame - J Geils Band - RadioDAZZ Rocks

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Composite showing J. Geils, Magic Dick and Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band performing in concert (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"Freeze Frame" - One of the best offerings of the transitional early 1980's. The J Geils Band knocked me out with this straight-ahead, hand-clapping piece of purebred rock n' roll.

From the captivating, biting Hammond organ (with Leslie speaker system float around sound) riff intro (and throughout), to the brass instrumental in the middle, to the unpretentious, enthusiastic vocals and harmony, this song was begging to be played at top volume through one of the old Seeburg jukeboxes.

This song was incredibly energetic, with a powerful, positive charge.

Kick it loud and proud. Boost your bass. Let those tensions out. RD, if you're out there, give me a holler. This is for you and all the cerebrotonic, staid well-behaved young men who found true release in head-banging, eardrum-splitting music.

Click on either the the link below or the video player (which is shy when you get the RSS feed for RadioDAZZ) and get knocked right over. You'll have to play it several times in a row. The beginning gets your blood racing afresh every single time you hear it. If you don't get a shiver, you're probably dead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHo43B6nu60&ob=av3e

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Mama Told Me Not To Come -- IMMORTAL/ IMMORAL?

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Three Dog Night had an amazingly bright 70s sound, with tenor harmonies, incredible energy (better living through chemistry perhaps?), great songwriting and arranging, rich Hammond organ and those wonderful  Leslie Speaker Systems, musical, polished wood carpentry which spun sounds all over the place in a three-dimensional, full-immersion, heaven-like experience. Plain guitar, horse-kickin' drums, and memorable sing-along party songs.

This live performance of "Mama Told Me Not To Come" is a true classic, replete with spooky guitar sound effects and video fog...the verses are dreamlike, but the refrain pops out like a fast left-hook, in a solid, tight wall of wailing harmony.

Enjoy it. The video's every superb, and is truly representative of this prolific group of performers who graced a fabulously rich and revolutionary musical era. Then again, they also performed "Joy to the World," but we won't talk about that here...

Click!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaQzQAlNn4&feature=related
 






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WAR - "Slippin' Into Darkness"

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The pride of of South Central LA - WAR. Great soul, great harmony, amazingly unique instrumentation. Churchy Hammond organ, guitar riffs, wild, winding, haunting organ and harmonica themes interwoven thoughout. A totally powerful, unique and genuine sound. Crazy minor sixths. Mournful. Irresistible.

It took me many years before I actually listened to all of the lyrics and learned what the song was truly about. So real. So deep. It pulls at you, like a ghostly reminder of your past sins. Beautiful. Big harmony chords. Pure, uncut product.

Click below to pull the trigger on this amazing sound...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFSWW4O6QNM&feature=related








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