Rich here.
Yes, yes. I know. I know. You've heard the damn song a million times. "Jeremiah was a bullfrog." And you might be as sick of it as I am, particularly because that piece of fluff makes it easy to ignore what a really good band Three Dog Night was, featuring three soulful lead singers, whose gospel-influenced harmonies sometimes made you think they were "singing in the Heavy Church," as one of their album cuts put it. And, damn, the band itself was a powerhouse whose heavy arrangements always gave substance to the songs the band was covering, which were written by a virtual Who's Who of the emerging rock songwriter class of the late Sixties -- Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Clint Ballard, even Otis Redding.
And here's sonic evidence of how tight the band was when allowed to stretch out a bit on their own without the vocals -- a piece of acid-tinged heaviness with a touch of proto-funk and a middle-eight that suggests an early flirtation with prog.
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