The Best of Three Dog Night

Three Dog Night | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MCA
• ASIN: B000002O4I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Track: 10: Never Been To Spain,

Track: 11: Black And White,

Track: 12: Pieces Of April,

Track: 13: Liar,

Track: 14: Out In The Country,

Track: 15: Show Must Go On,

Track: 16: Eli's Coming,

Track: 17: One Man Band,

Track: 18: One,

Track: 19: Play Something Sweet ( Brickyard Blues),

Track: 1: Joy To The World,

Track: 20: Celebrate,

Track: 2: Easy To Be Hard,

Track: 3: Family Of Man,

Track: 4: Sure As I'm Sittin' Here,

Track: 5: Old Fashioned Love Song,

Track: 6: Mama Told Me ( Not To Come),

Track: 7: Try A Little Tenderness,

Track: 8: Shambala,

Track: 9: Let Me Serenade You
Media Type: CD
Artist: THREE DOG NIGHT
Title: BEST OF THREE DOG NIGHT
Street Release Date: 11/09/2004
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Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

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80 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music (Skimpy Packaging), April 21, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Three Dog Night (Audio CD)

From 1969 to 1974 you couldn't turn on the radio without being bombarded by the latest Three Dog Night hit--and they're all here from "Try a Little Tenderness" to "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)." The only missing single is their final Top 40 "Til the World Ends" (No. 32) from 1975. If your a completist you'll have to spring for the double-disc "Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story," which includes that song as well as some album tracks and a few pre-Three Dog Night songs.

What you get on "The Best of Three Dog Night" is just that--all the hits, no filler. Over a five-year period they had twenty Top 40 hits, seven million-sellers, and three No. 1 hits. They didn't write their own hits, but they picked from among the best songwriters of the period: Randy Newman ("Mama Told Me Not To Come"), John Hiatt ("Sure As I'm Sittin' Here"), Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World," "Never Been to Spain"), Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming"), Paul Williams ("Family of Man," "Out in the Country"), and Harry Nilsson ("One").

The emphasis was on the trio of vocalists--Cory Wells, Chuck Negron and Danny Hutton--but the band provided more than adequate instrumental support in their mixture of pop, rock and soul. While they were never the critics' darlings, their radio-friendly pop are enjoyable reminders of the period.

My only complaint with this release is the skimpy packaging. No liner notes. No band history. No recording information. (By the way, the songs are not presented chronologically.) But the music is excellent. This is everything you'd ever want to hear from Three Dog Night. Buy and enjoy (before MCA decides to replace it with one of their 10-track 20th Century Masters rip-offs)! RECOMMENDED

43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent, but flawed, collection, June 24, 2001

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rockland6674 (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Three Dog Night (Audio CD)

"The Best of Three Dog Night" is a decent, single-disc T.D.N. collection. Only their final top-40 hit, "'Til The World Ends," is missing. There are some shortcomings, however, which make me limit my rating to three stars: First, there is the packaging, with a colorized cover photo and no liner notes. Second, the sound quality is a little tinny when compared to other Three Dog Night CDs. Third, if you're looking for the 45 versions you remember, you won't find them here. These are the LP versions ("Liar" and "Family of Man" are edited, but they're not the 45 mixes.) Finally, "Shambala" is presented here in a fake-stereo version which sounds like two synchronized mono tapes, each with different equalization (This song first appeared as a mono 45, and the mono master was electronically rigged into fake-stereo several months later for the "Cyan" LP. An authentic stereo version of this song has never been released.)

In spite of this CD's drawbacks, it's still the title to get for the casual T.D.N. fan who's looking for a single-CD collection with (almost) all the hits, and no filler.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just an excellent 3 Dog Night anthology compilation!, June 25, 1999

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This review is from: The Best of Three Dog Night (Audio CD)

I enjoy this anthology collection by Three Dog Night. They sing every hit song from the seventies era that I remember like "Joy To The World", "Liar", "Eli's Coming", "Mama Told Me Not To Come" and "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song". Which these are my favorite tunes and I recommend this CD even though if your 3 dog night fan you'll enjoy listening to this one. It's even way better than Celebrate The Three Dog Night Story ultimate collection 2 CD set.