Three Dog Night Brings International Tour to The Renaissance Center

Release Date: 5/1/2000. Expired: 6/9/2000

Celebrated rock group performed June 8 & 9, 2000

Joy to the World, Three Dog Night fans will sing when four of the original seven members of the legendary group will take the stage of The Renaissance Center’s Performance Hall in two highly anticipated concerts.

The 42-member Tennessee Symphony will perform with Three Dog Night members Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, Mike Allsup, Jimmy Greenspoon, Paul Kingery and Pat Bautz in the promotion of the band’s new album.

According to Billboard Magazine, Three Dog Night was the top-selling recording group in the world from 1969 - 1974, selling more than 90 million albums worldwide, recording 21 hit singles, 12 gold albums and 11 top 10 hits.

Audiences of all ages will recognize their many hit singles including “Celebrate”, “Joy to the World”, “Mama Told Me Not to Come”, “Liar”, “One Man Band”, “Pieces of April”, “Old Fashioned Love Song” and “Never Been to Spain.”

Three Dog Night toured extensively during the seventies, breaking attendance records in venues ranging from concert halls to football stadiums. In 1975, however, the rigors of non-stop roadwork caught up with the group.

“We became disenchanted,” Cory Wells says today. “We just quietly backed out of the picture. We had come on the scene quietly and we were going to leave the same way, with dignity.”

Danny Hutton who originally brought the group together in 1968 returned to his home town of Buncrana, Ireland where he formed a management/booking agency which thrived. He booked bands such as “The Go-Go’s” and recorded two songs for motion picture soundtrack albums, “Wouldn’t It Be Good” for Pretty in Pink and “Brand New Day” for American Flyers.

Cory Wells, an ardent and expert fisherman, traveled the world with his family — fishing as he went. He is currently a field editor for Outdoor Life magazine and writes articles for various sporting publications.

Unfinished business involving the original group got them together again. To their surprise, they found they all shared the same feeling, a resurgence of interest in music and a growing desire to try it all over again.

As Danny Hutton puts it, “We just had a test rehearsal and discovered the old magic was still there.”