Thursday, June 9, 2022

Three Dog Night - BBC in Concert, London, Britain, 12-7-1972

Here's yet another BBC TV show concert bootleg from the early 1970s.

Generally speaking, the US band Three Dog Night has had a respect problem. From 1969 to 1974, they had 15 top twenty hits in the US (and two big hits in Britain), and that popularity led some people to criticize them for being too commercial. They also didn't write many songs on their own, and their hits were written by others. But I just listened to this concert for the first time the other day, and it struck me that they were a good, rocking band. Yeah, it would have been nice if they wrote all their own stuff, but all of these are excellent songs that might not have been hits otherwise. 

This concert took place at the end of 1972, at a time when the band still had all seven of its original members. They were in the middle of their run of chart hits, but they already had so many that virtually every song here was a hit, with the exception of "Midnight Runaway," and they had even more big hits they didn't have time to play, like "One," "Easy to Be Hard," "Liar," and "Never Been to Spain." 

I have to admit that up until now I'd only thought of this group for their singles. But they impressed me with their talent playing these songs in this concert.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 One Man Band (Three Dog Night)
02 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Three Dog Night)
03 It's for You (Three Dog Night)
04 An Old Fashioned Love Song (Three Dog Night)
05 talk (Three Dog Night)
06 Midnight Runaway (Three Dog Night)
07 Try a Little Tenderness (Three Dog Night)
08 talk (Three Dog Night)
09 Black and White (Three Dog Night)
10 Eli's Coming (Three Dog Night)
11 Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)
12 Celebrate (Three Dog Night)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4J8wSFFF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/q61dzScbG1MkDek/file

A video of this concert is available on YouTube, at least when I checked. However, the video that I saw didn't have the band's name at the beginning, as that part was probably cut off. So I used the same font as the others from the same TV show, but I had to guess on the colors of the letters.

In April 2025, I improved the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

1 comment:

  1. This is a good show in high quality sound, typical of BBC live shows. I notice that no edits were necessary for this show to improve the sound, for example. I compiled this show myself several years ago from two different YT videos; one was the whole show, but missing the first song's beginning, and the other was thr complete first song, standing alone. Those Who enjoyed the 2975 SOUNDSTAGE concert should also grab this one.
    Sax and Guitar

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