Three Dog Night Is An American Rock Band From Los Angeles California Best Known For Their Music From 1968 To 1975 During Which Time They Achieved Twenty-One Consecutive Billboard Top 40 Hits And 12 Consecutive Gold Albums. Three Dog Night Are Still Active In 2012 Touring And Recording 43 Years After Their First Album Was Released. The First Of The Band's 7 Million-Selling Singles Was One In 1969. They Scored Three Number One Singles Mama Told Me Not To Come Joy To The World And Black And White. The Original Lineup Included Three Lead Vocalists — Danny Hutton Chuck Negron And Cory Wells — Along With Michael Allsup On Guitar Jimmy Greenspoon On Keyboards Floyd Sneed On Drums And Joe Schermie from The Cory Wells Blues Band On Bass. Three Dog Night Recorded Some Tracks With Beach Boys Producer Composer Vocalist And Instrumentalist Brian Wilson Before Signing With Dunhill Records And At The Time Went Under The Name Redwood. The Band Changed Their Name Based On An Article Describing How Australian Aborigines Slept With Their Dogs For Warmth On Cold Nights The Coldest Being A "three-Dog Night." Read More On Last.Fm. User-Contributed Text Is Available Under The Creative Commons By-SA License Additional Terms May Apply.
"The Show Must Go On" Is A Song Co-Written By Leo Sayer And David Courtney And First Recorded By Sayer. It Was Released In The United Kingdom In 1973 Becoming Sayer's First Hit Record Reaching Its Chart Peak Of #2 In Early 1974 In The UK Singles Chart 1 And Was Included On Sayer's Debut Album Silverbird. The Song Was Covered By Three Dog Night Whose Version Was Released In 1974 Becoming A Hit In The United States Peaking At #4 On The Billboard Hot 100 And Sung By Chuck Negron. It Uses A Circus Theme As A Metaphor For Dealing With The Difficulties And Wrong Choices Of Life. When Sayer Performed The Song When It Was A Hit He Performed It Dressed As A Pierrot Clown. The Opening Motif Quotes Julius Fucik's "Entrance Of The Gladiators" Which Is Commonly Associated With Circus Clowns.