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marble falls

(61,410 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2024, 10:54 PM 22 hrs ago

Three Dog Night - Eli's Coming

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Three Dog Night - Eli's Coming (Original Post) marble falls 22 hrs ago OP

Cory Wells was a truly great singer. dchill 22 hrs ago #1

Cory Wells was truly a great singer, and Laura Nyro wrote an amazing catalogue of songs, fer sure. marble falls 22 hrs ago #2

Written by the supremely talented Laura Nyro More_Cowbell 22 hrs ago #3

I loved that band to pieces in high school Bayard 21 hrs ago #4

Met Them ProfessorGAC 13 hrs ago #6

I salute you! Bayard 9 hrs ago #7

Great Tune ProfessorGAC 13 hrs ago #5

Me, too. But all three were good voices, in spite of some drug problems for one of them ... marble falls 9 hrs ago #8

Their Ethos Was Based... ProfessorGAC 8 hrs ago #9

Like this ... marble falls 7 hrs ago #10

dchill

(40,072 posts)

1. Cory Wells was a truly great singer.

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 10:58 PM

22 hrs ago

(And Laura Nyro was a great songwriter.)

marble falls

(61,410 posts)

2. Cory Wells was truly a great singer, and Laura Nyro wrote an amazing catalogue of songs, fer sure.

Reply to dchill (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 11:01 PM

22 hrs ago

Last edited Tue Oct 22, 2024, 11:38 PM - Edit history (1)

More_Cowbell

(2,204 posts)

3. Written by the supremely talented Laura Nyro

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 11:04 PM

22 hrs ago

I'm getting a 404 error when I try to post a list of her songs!

Bayard

(23,941 posts)

4. I loved that band to pieces in high school

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 11:27 PM

21 hrs ago

ProfessorGAC

(69,327 posts)

6. Met Them

Reply to Bayard (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:53 AM

13 hrs ago

They did a show at the big fieldhouse in the city where I grew up.
We had backstage passes (long story) and got to hang out after the show.
We were all under 18 at the time, so Floyd (drummer), Skip (extra keyboardist), and Mike (guitar) acted like big brothers to make sure we weren't drinking.
They were all really nice guys. Treated all 4 of us like we belonged there for the entire hour plus.

Bayard

(23,941 posts)

7. I salute you!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #6)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 11:29 AM

9 hrs ago

I would have been thrilled.

ProfessorGAC

(69,327 posts)

5. Great Tune

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:50 AM

13 hrs ago

Pretty sure that's Corey Wells tearing this up on lead vocal.

marble falls

(61,410 posts)

8. Me, too. But all three were good voices, in spite of some drug problems for one of them ...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 12:03 PM

9 hrs ago

... this cut made me know they weren't bubblegum.

ProfessorGAC

(69,327 posts)

9. Their Ethos Was Based...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 01:06 PM

8 hrs ago

...on an idea that Negron & Hutton had that since nine of them were very good, or prolific, songwriters, they should find songs they could cover & let the players make it their band's tune.
Eli was brought to the band by Negron, with the intention of Wells singing it.
He didn't being it in and then figure out who should sing lead. He brought it in with a plan of one of the other guys taking the lead.
They did that all the time.
Jimmy & Mike figured out how the music would go, the other 3 figured out the harmonies. (Jimmy & Mike would always wait to see what Floyd wanted to do on drums before they finalized the arrangement. The bass players were both flexible and would figure out what was needed based on what the other 3 wanted to do.)
Very egalitarian.

marble falls

(61,410 posts)

10. Like this ...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #9)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 01:30 PM

7 hrs ago

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