Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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9. Their Ethos Was Based...

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.

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Three Dog Night - Eli's Coming [View all] 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