Three Dog Night

However, by this time, the band had stopped recording and broke up not long afterwards. Among computing circles, she is known for her song Tom's Diner being used as the reference track for the MP3 compression system. The band then became an eight-piece with the induction of another keyboards player, Skip Konte. Vega has a daughter, Ruby Froom. Joe Schermie quit in 1973 and was replaced by Jack Ryland. (The UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing twelve songs.). Their use of songs by Randy Newman ("Mama Told Me Not To Come", their sole British hit), Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming"), Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World"), Elton John & Bernie Taupin ("Lady Samantha"), and Harry Nilsson ("One") were the first major hits for songs by these singer/songwriters. In 2003, the twenty-one-song greatest hits compilation Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released.

Three Dog Night collected no less than fourteen gold albums and recorded twenty-one Billboard Top 40 hits, nine of which went gold. Dunhill, their record company, claimed 40 million units sold by them. The subject matter deals with Vega's divorce from her ex-husband, record producer Mitchell Froom. The name of the band came from an article describing how Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three-dog night.". September 2001 saw the release of a new album, Songs In Red and Grey. The band included three lead vocalists — Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells — and Michael Alsup on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie (from the Cory Wells Blues Band) on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and "Dead Man Walking", a song from the soundtrack of a movie of the same name. Their hits included; "Joy to the World", "Easy To Be Hard" from the musical Hair, and "Black and White". The music varies between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of 99.9F°.

Three Dog Night was an American rock and roll band active from 1968 to 1975. The fifth album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released in 1996. Live with the Tennessee Symphony Orchestra [DVD] (2002). The songs are short and the lyric style compressed. Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 (1993). This gives a sunny quality to the work in contrast to the previous album. It's a Jungle (1983). It consists of an eclectic mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music.

The Best of 3 Dog Night (1982). 1992 saw the release of the album 99.9F° ("ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit degrees"). American Pastime (1976). The album lacked hit single material and is best considered as a whole. Coming Down Your Way (1975). Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand (1990) signified a change in style: the music became more experimental and the lyrics expressed greater emotion. Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits (1974). The music is more strongly pop-oriented compared with her first album.

Hard Labor (1974). "Luka" is written from the point of view of an abused child—uncommon for a pop hit. Around the World With Three Dog Night (1973). Her sophomore effort, Solitude Standing (1987), contained two successful singles: "Tom's Diner" (a hit later remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, not to be confused with the no wave band DNA) and "Luka". Cyan (1973). The songs are straightforward and oppose the 'bigger is better' slogan of the mid-1980s. They are not typical protest songs, but are introspective, in the manner of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s. Seven Separate Fools (1972). Suzanne's eponymous debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics.

Harmony (1971). In 1984 she received a major label record contract. Golden Bisquits (1971). While she was an English literature major at Columbia University's Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village. Naturally (1970). Music, however, was her first love. It Ain't Easy (1970). Later she attended the New York High School of Performing Arts (the school seen in the film and musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.

Captured Live at the Forum (1969). At the age of nine she began to write poems; she wrote her first song at 14. Suitable for Framing (1969). She was born in Santa Monica, California, but, at the age of one, moved with her mother and her stepfather to New York City, where she grew up in a socially problematic area. Three Dog Night (1969). Suzanne Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer.