Three Dog Night - 20 Greatest Hits [Import]

Three Dog Night | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mpg [Movieplay Gold]
• ASIN: B00000G6PV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Imports > Classic Rock
  • #34 in Music > Imports > Rock

Track Listings

1. Try a Little Tenderness

2. One

3. Easy to Be Hard

4. Eli's Coming

5. Celebrate

6. Mama Told Me (Not to Come)

7. Out in the Country

8. One Man Band

9. Joy to the World

10. Liar

11. An Old Fashioned Love Song

12. Never Been to Spain

13. The Family of Man

14. Black and White

15. Pieces of April

16. Shambala

17. Let Me Serenade You

18. The Show Must Go On

19. Sure As I'm Sittin' Here

20. Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)

Editorial Reviews

Import only 20-track collection. Includes the hits, 'Mama Told Me (Not to Come), 'One', 'Try a Little Tenderness', 'Joy to the World', 'Never Been to Spain', 'Shambala' and many more. MPG Records. 2006.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Hits for the Greatest Price, September 30, 2002

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R. Barnes "Music Collector/Science Fiction Re... (Greenwood, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Three Dog Night - 20 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I will take this from the GREATEST HITS perspective. We have the Millenium Collection, a few multi-disk anthologies, GOLDEN BISQUITS, and this import. This is by far the best deal for those who just want the hits, and not all the album tracks, (and there are quite a few good ones).

All of the singles are here, from the biggest (Joy To The World) to personal favorites like "Out In The Country". It would be redundant to go track by track, since like Creedence Clearwater in the same time frame, they were Single Machines who also put out great albums as well.

If you want just the best for a good price, this is it. If you want a completist collection, go for the multi disk anthology.

You can't go wrong with the music, for one of the best Vocal Bands of the era, with the tightest backup band since Booker T's MG's.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historical Sequence of TDN's Greatest Hits, November 23, 2007

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Plastic Salmon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Dog Night - 20 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Here is a compilation of hits by the super group "Three Dog Night", who released a string of pop radio hits from the late 60's to the mid 70's. This collection includes their most noteworthy radio hits from eight of their studio albums. These songs were played extensively on the airwaves, and all of them have a sound characteristic of TDN, which cannot be described in words, but simply have that essence which unmistakably belongs to this band.

There are 20 songs to be found on this album. From their first album, the self-titled "Three Dog Night", is the lonely song "One" and the romantic "Try A Little Tenderness". Three songs were derived from their second album, "Suitable For Framing": these include "Eli's Coming", a fast-paced, frantic sounding act; "Easy To Be Hard", a gentle piece originally found in the 60's soundtrack and Off-Broadway play "Hair"; and "Celebrate", a lively party song. Two tracks are extracted from their third studio album "It Ain't Easy". These include "Mama Told Me Not To Come", and the laid-back "Out In The Country". Three hits come from their fourth album "Naturally": "Liar", about dishonesty in a relationship; the high-energy "One Man Band", and the super hit "Joy To The World", perhaps the group's biggest hit.

From the fifth studio album, "Harmony", comes the heartfelt "An Old Fashioned Love Song", the memory-laden traveling song "Never Been To Spain", and the description of modern conditions (in 1971) "Family Of Man". (This song could be relevant today, over 35 years later). Out of their sixth studio album "Seven Separate Fools", comes a prosocial song "Black And White", about racial harmony; and the tender-sounding "Pieces Of April". Two hits are taken from their seventh studio album, "Cyan". These are the joyous "Shambala", and the piano-driven romantic "Let Me Serenade You". Three hits march out of their last great studio album "Hard Labor": "The Show Must Go On", a track which begins and ends with the familiar circus theme; "Sure As I'm Sitting Here", another piano-laden romantic piece; and "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)".

These great songs, with their wonderful creativeness, artistry, and tremendous popularity, make up an outstanding collection which deserves seven stars out of five on the five-point scale here. It would have been great if this band had continued making hits and albums beyond the mid 1970s, for they would likely have been just as good.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No dogs here, February 28, 2011

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Mr. Brad C. Vanzyl - See all my reviews
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Didn't know which of 3-Dog Night CDs to purchase when replacing my old Albums with new technology.... the Greatest Hits decision hit a home run. Every track rocks and brings back the 70's and 80's... I'm lovin' it.