Three Dog Night/Suitable for Framing

by Three Dog Night

Overview

Anyone waiting for MCA to upgrade the Three Dog Night album catalog -- and it needs doing, the American CD versions having been mastered two decades ago -- need look no further than this excellent two-LP-on-one-CD collection. From the opening piano on "One," it's like several layers of hiss have been removed, and the transfer has resolution sufficient so that the playing on everything from the rhythm section out forward is crystal clear, just like the nuances of the singing throughout come through in vivid detail -- and the volume has been pushed a lot harder as well. Not only does the sound make this CD truly "suitable for framing," but the annotation gives a pretty good account of the coalescing of the group and the making of the two albums, albeit from the British perspective, which is a little strange -- yes, Gott Discs is a British company, so it's not odd in that regard that they should tell the story that way, only in that, except for one brief moment in their history a little later than this, Three Dog Night wasn't a fraction as successful in England as they were in the United States, so their story is told here once-removed, so to speak. Still, the account is good and no one can argue about the merits of the music, or Gott Discs finally doing what MCA should have done a long time ago with these two albums. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	05/12/2009
Label:	Beat Goes On
UPC:	5017261208651
Rank:	32844

Tracks

1. One
2. Nobody
3. Heaven Is in Your Mind
4. It's for You
5. Let Me Go
6. Chest Fever
7. Find Someone to Love
8. Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad
9. Don't Make Promises
10. The Loner
11. Try a Little Tenderness
12. Feelin' Alright
13. Lady Samantha
14. Dreaming Isn't Good for You
15. A Change Is Gonna Come
16. Eli's Coming
17. Easy to Be Hard
18. Ain't That a Lot of Love
19. King Solomon's Mines
20. Circle for a Landing
21. Celebrate

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Three Dog Night   Primary Artist
Mike Allsup   Guitar
Floyd Sneed   Drums
Chuck Negron   Guitar
Cory Wells   Guitar
Danny Hutton   Guitar
Jimmy Greenspoon   Keyboards
Joe Schermie   Bass

Technical Credits

Bill Cooper   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Richard Podolor   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Gabriel Mekler   Audio Production,Producer
Don Preston   Composer
Ernie Shelby   Composer
Wayne Kimbell   Art Direction
Winwood Smith, Robyn   Composer
Ed Caraeff   Photography
Chris Wood   Composer
Shelby   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Steve Winwood   Composer
Mike Allsup   Group Member
Floyd Sneed   Composer,Group Member
John Tobler   Liner Notes
Chuck Negron   Group Member
Laura Nyro   Composer
Galt MacDermot   Composer
Doc Watson   Composer
James Rado   Composer
Garry Bonner   Composer
Cory Wells   Group Member
John Lennon   Composer
Sam Cooke   Composer
Johnny "Guitar" Watson   Composer
Hutton   Composer
Robbie Robertson   Composer
Jimmy Campbell   Composer
Robertson   Composer
Preston   Composer
Mason   Composer
Bernie Taupin   Composer
Neil Young   Composer
Randy Newman   Composer
Newman   Composer
Tim Hardin   Composer
Harry Connelly   Composer
Harry Nilsson   Composer
Danny Whitten   Composer
Danny Hutton   Composer,Group Member
Gerome Ragni   Composer
Harry Woods   Composer
Jimmy Greenspoon   Group Member
Cooper   Composer
Parker   Composer
Elton John   Composer
Joe Schermie   Group Member
Jim Capaldi   Composer
Alan Gordon   Composer
Hardin   Composer
Dave Mason   Composer
Whitten   Composer
Banks   Composer
Beatty   Composer
Sneed   Composer
Gary Burden   Cover Design
Dick Cooper   Composer