Music Appreciation

marble falls

(62,052 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2024, 09:54 PM Oct 22

Three Dog Night - Eli's Coming

?si=avcxbzUMQLSt1iNI

10 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

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

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

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

Written by the supremely talented Laura Nyro More_Cowbell Oct 22 #3

I loved that band to pieces in high school Bayard Oct 22 #4

Met Them ProfessorGAC Oct 23 #6

I salute you! Bayard Oct 23 #7

Great Tune ProfessorGAC Oct 23 #5

Me, too. But all three were good voices, in spite of some drug problems for one of them ... marble falls Oct 23 #8

Their Ethos Was Based... ProfessorGAC Oct 23 #9

Like this ... marble falls Oct 23 #10

dchill

(40,470 posts)

1. Cory Wells was a truly great singer.

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 09:58 PM

Oct 22

(And Laura Nyro was a great songwriter.)

marble falls

(62,052 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, 10:01 PM

Oct 22

Last edited Tue Oct 22, 2024, 10:38 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, 10:04 PM

Oct 22

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

Bayard

(24,145 posts)

4. I loved that band to pieces in high school

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 10:27 PM

Oct 22

ProfessorGAC

(69,879 posts)

6. Met Them

Reply to Bayard (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:53 AM

Oct 23

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

(24,145 posts)

7. I salute you!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #6)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 10:29 AM

Oct 23

I would have been thrilled.

ProfessorGAC

(69,879 posts)

5. Great Tune

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:50 AM

Oct 23

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

marble falls

(62,052 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, 11:03 AM

Oct 23

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

ProfessorGAC

(69,879 posts)

9. Their Ethos Was Based...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 12:06 PM

Oct 23

...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

(62,052 posts)

10. Like this ...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #9)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 12:30 PM

Oct 23

?si=ylm4gbzP89j99ayN

Reply to this discussion