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Today's CoronaVinyl category is "T," and I went with Three Dog Night's 1973 live album Around The World With Three Dog Night.
Three Dog Night was one of the most successful mainstream rock bands of the late '60s and early '70s. When they released this album, they were riding a streak of 14 consecutive Top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, nine of which were Top 10 songs, including three #1s ("Mama Told Me Not to Come" in 1970, "Joy To The World" in 1971, and "Black and White" in 1972).
Around The World With Three Dog Night is a two-LP rollicking live album that showed the band could rock hard, wail, and jam just as easily as they could play a popular pop rock song. It features many of the aforementioned Top 20 hits, along with a few deep tracks and some jam/solo tracks that have descriptive titles like "Organ Solo," "Drums Solo," and "Jam."
The album went to #18 on the Billboard album chart, which was actually their lowest-charting album (studio, live, or compilation) up to that point.
The album wasn't on Spotify -- or I should say, I found it in a search, but I couldn't play any of the songs -- but someone made a YouTube playlist with all the songs from the album, so that's what I embedded below.
Favorite Song on Side 1: "One Man Band"
The key to a good live show and a good live album is to start off with a bang, and this does that, with a song that is presumably ironic, since there were seven guys in the band.
Favorite Song on Side 2: "Eli's Coming"
The crowd calls for this one, and the band delivers. It's a fast-paced, soulful rock song with calls and responses, whipping into a frenzy, presumably because Eli normally has erectile dysfunction.
Favorite Song on Side 3: "Joy to the World"
It's hard for me to choose a song that doesn't start with "Jeremiah was a bullfrog," so I didn't not choose a song that starts with "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."
Favorite Song on Side 4: "Jam"
I love a good live '70s rock jam, and this is a good one.
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