This song has a extremely strong connection with me coming out of the Army in 1970 when I was 22 years old. I literally felt like a old man next to my college classmates. One of the many bands that transports me back fifty years to what seens like another universe.
I am 70 yrs old and saw this in concert. Possible this very show in person . It gets me so excited and full of happiness joy even now. I could just jump up and down while love live love these great singers and band. They were and are my favorite ❤❤❤🎉😊
Written by Laura Nyro, released on the 1969 album, " Suitable For Framing", this live version by Three Dog Night is a glowing masterpiece. The vocals alone are mind blowing and the instruments absolutely take on a new life in this exquisite rendition and are so explosive in a giant Rock love in. Fantastic time. 🎶🎶 Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Henry. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
This great song, Easy to be Hard, and Try a Little Tenderness are my favorites plus others are very very good. Yes, 3 great singers. Very successful band from 68 to probably 75 One of my favorite groups ever!!!!
Rip Corey . Such a soulful and kind looking individual. I followed them from day 1. The impression is hard to describe that they made on us teens way back then. Great reaction. Ty. Melissa Ward here.
Cory Wells also sang the track you liked, Try a little tenderness! This entire concert on Soundstage 1975 was fire! All 3 can sing! They start the concert with FAMILY OF AND MAN. The harmony, OMGOSH! Shows why they are in the Vocal Hall of Fame.Thank you, Harry, for this reaction! It was bomb!❤
An Incredible group, and still not given the accolades they surely deserved. Maybe their antics put people off recognizing how superb they were. I certainly respect them more than many rock and roll hall of famers!!!
Almost 50 years after this show was done and I still get chills. I can name on 2 hands Three Dog Nights greatest songs, with more to spare. The idea was rather unique, having three virtuoso singers, pushing each other to get the best sound. If you were alive in the late 1960s you knew Three Dog Night.
I like the original and 3DN versions, but my favorite is the instrumental jazz version by trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson from the M.F. Horn album. IT’s energy always reminded me of this live with the dynamic contrasts of the original. Still, one cannot be disappointed by the remarkable vocals like we hear here. Another wonderful selection and reaction! 👍🏻
I too prefer Laura Nyro. She was well known as a songwriter in her day, and many artists covered her - Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Fifth Dimension, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul & Mary - and Three Dog Night.
Actually, preferred the live version (Around the World with Three Dog Night) of this song over the studio version. Mainly because the original was only around 2 minutes running time. Great reaction as always.
😮 Tr m mcgraw Tim McGraw has to say I like it. I love it. I want some more of it. I may too. I'll say that a lot. I like it. I love it and I'll talk to beller of it
What a wonderful selection Henry. This performance is outstanding. Gotta love those bell bottoms. Such a great band. Nice reaction. Thanks Harri and Henry 🌺✌️
3 Dog Night is so good, such a part of my teen years and early adult hood. 3 lead singers who blend so well together yet all unique in their talent so rare in today's music. Got to see them live twice, what a GREAT show. Thank you for reacting to this great song. Imagine being in that audience, everyone got taken to church!! Digging those bell bottoms, I remember back in the day when I PROUDLY wore them. lol
I'm 53 and somehow had never heard of these guys until last night. I saw a documentary about them then went and checked out the Eli's Comin' performance right after and it floored me.
If you have not covered it yet I would highly recommend Laura Nyro’s version of the song, which she wrote. By layering her own voice, she manages to capture the whole harmony of the grou. It’s fantastic.
I remember, as a child in the late 1960s, listening to the studio version of this song on the AM radio in my mom's car. This live version is simply incredible. Thanks for sharing & reacting!
Just started watching 3DN reactions - yours is the 2nd. :-) Thanks for sharing it. I listened to 3DN when they were new (had several of their albums) but I never realized how influenced they were by Gospel Music until now. It's a revelation to those of us who were young suburbanite kids who hadn't heard Gospel yet. :-)
They are legendary!!! I so enjoyed your reaction! You have then most pleasant voice...I could listen to you all da long! They were all vocalists. They took turns with lead. That's why they were called Three Dog Night :)
Laura Nyro, I am a huge fan of hers songs, wherever they show up. I went to a Tiny High School..75 of us in my graduating class..in 1972! Someone heard me singing this song..and the next thing I knew, I was intrinsically intertwined with this song. Didn't know I was so popular or infamous that anyone cared what song I liked. Small towns are home....but they are weird. Try Feelin' Alright or In The Country or...Celebrate. For your personal enjoyment "Live at the Forum" sometimes when you have an hour to kill.
So many performances at Woodstock were fabulous. Try Country Joe and the Fish, and Santana, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. So many more. I was 16 when this happened. It is deep in me.
Saw Church in the late 90's when he was going by Chuck Negron formerly of TDN . He still had that wonderful voice. Got to sell merch after the show and meet him. He signed everything he could for me.
Three Dog Night is still my favorite group of all time. Whenever I want to be 16 again I just put on my TDN music and I am gone. Thanks for playing this Harri.
Eli’s Coming was written by Laura Nyro. She wrote the music and the lyrics. She never got the fame and recognition she deserved. She had extreme stage fright. You should listen to her version.
She’s one of my favorite singer/songwriters! Her first few albums contained so many hits- for other artists, anyway. She was really creative , ahead of her time. Yes, she had terrible stage fright. My sister saw her perform in the mid 70s. She only played for a half hour. Yes, I recommend that people listen to her version, as well as other hit songs she wrote. Thanks very much for mentioning her- and for being a fan.
If you ever get the chance to hear TDN Live at The Forum in LA 1969 in the vinyl record get it, it is a stunning album. Even if you go to the vintage record store and listen through the headphones it will be worth the effort.
I so agree with you Harri. There is no better way to watch it live to me. Its gritty and real and fun! TY so much! Next from this same venue..." Liar" and Junkyard Blues!!!
Seen them twice on this tour. 6 months apart in Vancouver. 2nd show only 3000 people showed up cause so close together. Pacific Coliseum looked empty with lights on. The show was unreal, Pink Floydish at times. The crowd although small sounded like 100,000 people you could feel the place shake (a concrete hockey arena) with the stomping wanting encore. And did we get it.
Just imagine how we felt hearing it for the first time in 1969! The band essentially had 3 lead singers. I think the original studio recording is superior to this version, and I'm sure there are other, better live versions out there, too.
Harri, please react to "Roses and Rainbows" written and sung by Danny Hutton one of the singers of Three Dog Night released in 1965 and was a big hit in Los Angeles I used to hear it a lot on AM radio, Kind of an early psychedelic song before it was a thing and a forgotten song.
You really should listen to the Laura Niro version from Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968). Many great songs off that album, including Luckie, Poverty Train and Stoned Soul Picnic.
My Favorite 3 Dog Night Song.... By the great Laura Lyro a great singer in her own right ..... PS. Do you know what a 3 dog Night is ? It is a saying by aboriginal people.... It for a really cold night when you need to sleep with 3 dogs to stay warm
