Three Dog Night’s concerts in Dickson to air on NPT Sept. 6

Release Date: 8/6/2002. Expired: 9/6/2002

Flash back to the late 1960s and early ’70s when legendary rock group Three Dog Night takes to the airwaves with a concert filmed at and produced by The Renaissance Center on Nashville Public Television (NPT) at 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6.

NPT will air an hour-long version of Three Dog Night’s concerts with the Tennessee Symphony Orchestra from June 2000 at The Renaissance Center in Dickson.

“We look forward to airing this program on NPT,” said NPT Senior Vice President and Station Manager Beth Curley. “Considering that The Renaissance Center in Dickson and the Tennessee Symphony Orchestra were heavily involved in the production gives it the type of local flavor that we like to showcase on our station.”

Three Dog Night was the top rock group in the world 1969-74 and has sold over 90 million records. The group’s hits include “Joy to the World,” the number one song of 1971, as well as “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” “Liar,” “One,” “Old-Fashioned Love Song,” “Never Been to Spain” and many more. During that time period, nobody had more top 10 hits, moved more records or sold more concert tickets.

Three Dog Night was undoubtedly the most popular band in America in that five-year span, with 21 consecutive Top 40 hits, 18 straight Top 20s, 11 Top 10s, seven number-one songs, seven million-selling singles and 12 straight gold albums.

Some of those well-known songs are on a new CD on which Three Dog Night performs with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Larry Baird.

In June 2000 Three Dog Night made its debut live performances with a symphony in the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center. Accompanied by the 42-piece Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under Baird’s direction, the group performed 16 of its top hits as well as one new song, “Sault Ste. Marie.” The concerts were filmed by the center’s Multimedia Department and have now been released on DVD and VHS by Image Entertainment, with all of the video editing and creative direction of the program handled by The Renaissance Center.

In addition to the concert footage, the DVD and VHS also contain interviews with band founders Danny Hutton and Cory Wells, as well as Baird, who wrote the orchestration for the show.

The program to air on NPT and other PBS stations across the country has been edited to an hour and contains parts of the interviews included in the DVD and VHS versions. The DVD and VHS are available at the Virtually Unlimited Bookstore at The Renaissance Center.

“The Three Dog Night concert marks our second special to be aired on PBS stations across the country,” said Steve Hall, director of the Multimedia Department. “Kathy Mattea made her Christmas special, ‘Sounds of the Season,’ here and it aired coast-to-coast on PBS stations on Christmas Eve 2000. The difference with the Three Dog Night concert is that the majority of the post-production work also was done at The Renaissance Center. We worked with long-time Three Dog Night producers Richie Podolor and Bill Cooper at American Recording Studios on the sound mixing but all of the editing and video work was done by the staff of the center.”

The Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department has also produced a video from a performance by Whisperin’ Bill Anderson and is producing a video project on Wolf Fest 2002, a fan club event hosted by John Kay and his legendary rock group Steppenwolf.

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