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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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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Music Break - "The Bells" - 2 Great Versions In One RadioDazz Visit

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Take some time for yourself and savor the flavor of The Originals' version of this soul classic (1970) -- "The Bells." The harmony is delicious and rich. You'll absolutely hear the bells. There will be moments when you'll even think about another song - Wildflower - ("let her cry/ For she's a lady/ Let her dream...). This is pure soul.

Then, listen to a version done by the writer, Laura Nyro. She is outstanding. She was so prolific. She wrote for Barbara Streisand, The 5th Dimension, Patti LaBelle, Three Dog Night, Asford and Simpson, and countless other artists. Every song was a hit. When Laura sings and plays her piano (that's right...HER piano), she fills an auditorium with so much pure, unbridled passion and delicacy that it becomes a church, or a holy shrine. When I listen to her, sometimes (this is a secret) I catch myself tearing up over some woman whom I've never met. The term "musician" is, by itself, inadequate -- "Magician" is more like it.

Listen here. Listen to two versions of "The Bells". One after the next. The first one is fabulous -- but I'll confess (amen) that it is really just a teaser, an appetizer for the second.

-DZ http://radiodazz.blogspot.com/

Here you are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BtyxQj2NMM&feature=related





And Now: Laura and Patti Labelle's Version.
-- There might actually be angels after all, kids. Please don't watch the rather explicit and frightfully tasteless video though. Close your eyes and just listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_Z56rtdRw&feature=related



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DENIECE WILLIAMS - Music Break - It's Gonna Take A Miracle - 1982

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This is a wonderful arrangement of It's Gonna Take A Miracle, which was written by Laura Nyro (on of the finest songwriters of the 1960s and the 1970s. Deniece Williams does it justice, indeed. Full orchestration..no synth. She does a fabulous job with the bridge of the song, which takes a turn into a very different key and and whole secondary, unique feel -- like a song within a song.

As good as it was, the second track is one (far less played, far less viewed...) of Laura Nyro at the keyboard and singing her own beautiful song. Her voice is so empassioned, yet so frail. When she writes music, she means every lyric, and feels every note. When she sings, she becomes the song. She is downright soulful.

Take a RadioDAZZ music break. Listen to both versions. If you get back to your desk, cubicle or cubby hole a bit late, Dazz will write a note to your boss. No kidding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7KtpDagIY&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJfeoqNI4ZM



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