Album Of The Week: Three Dog Night's, Seven Separate Fools

Combining Hollywood pizazz with soulful swagger, Three Dog Night sounded big and brassy even in their quietest moments. The bold, colorful blend of show biz savvy, punchy horns, and gutsy vocals gave Three Dog Night a remarkable string of Top Ten singles in the early 1970s, hits that helped define the dawning of post-hippie pop music.

A creation with three lead singers, Three Dog Night didn't write their own material, choosing instead to bring attention to emerging songwriters of their era.

Seven Separate Fools is the eighth studio album by American rock band Three Dog Night. Released in 1972, the album reached number six on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest-charting album. The LP version of the album was released with seven large playing cards (each nearly 12 inches in height) as an extra bonus.

Danny Hutton formed Three Dog Night in 1968 with Cory Wells, a veteran of the rock band the Enemys. They soon expanded into a trio with the addition of Chuck Negron.

It took a few months for Three Dog Night's nominative debut to find an audience. For musicians that set out to influence music for generations to come, typically the intial reception is met with skepticism. At a radical pace, that skepticism was inevitably forgotten about just as quickly.