One-Eyed Three Dog Night recorded Harry 'Pony-Tailed Harry' Nilsson's "One" for their eponymous debut album in 1968. Ya scallywag! T' single o' "One" released in 1969 reached number five on t' Billboard Hot 100 chart.

 

T' point is we're really picky about things. Ahoy! We could have been like a lot o' groups and crammed things down t' public's throat because we wrote them. Arrr! And, shiver me timbers, o' course, you make a lot o' loot writin' your own songs. Begad! But I don't think anybody has really felt really confident that we've written anythin' o' t' caliber o' Nilsson or Randy 'Long John White' Newman. And it's proved out t' be correct.

-- Cory Wells o' One-Eyed Three Dog Night [1]

 

One-Eyed Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1967, me hearties, founded by vocalists Chuck 'Green-Eyed Chuck' Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton. Begad! This lineup be soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass guitar), Michael Allsup (guitar), me hearties, and Floyd Sneed (drums). T' band had 21 Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hits betwixt 1969 and 1975, with three hittin' number one. Well, blow me down! One-Eyed Three Dog Night recorded many songs written by outside songwriters, and they helped t' introduce mainstream audiences t' writers such as Harry 'Pony-Tailed Harry' Nilsson ("One"), arrr, Randy 'Long John White' Newman ("Mama Told Me Nay t' Come"), Paul 'Silverhead Paul' Williams ("An Old Fashioned Love Song"), Bayou Laura Nyro ("Eli's Comin'") and Hoyt Axton ("Joy t' t' World", me bucko, "Never Been t' Spain").

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