Naturally - THREE DOG NIGHT***

I Can Hear You Calling/One Man Band/I'll Be Creepin'/Fire Eater/Can't Get Enough Of It/Sunlight/Heavy Church /Liar/I've Got Enough Heartache/Joy To The World

Naturally is an uneven collection from the mostly covers rock band Three Dog Night. Includes the US chart topping single Joy To The World and the US No. 19 One Man Band. (US:14)

"By this date, they have become exceedingly inconsistent, yet somehow managed to continue to come up with a few good cuts to mix in with their excruciatingly soulful ballads. Based on this, I can't abandon them just yet."

"While they were in their heyday, each new release of Three Dog Night was better than the last one. Not many bands can claim that. And none of today's artists can come close to their output in the early and mid 70s. In my opinion this album was their high water mark."

"Very Phil Spectorish pop/rock heading in a Crosby Stills & Nash direction. This band tends to do mostly covers, but this album has a lot of originals on it. Most of the songs aren't great."

"Despite the inclusion of a little ditty entitled Joy To The World (which ended up sounding like a kiddie-anthem and prophesized uglier things to come, sadly) this isn't a shabby album. At this time in their history, covering songs by bands such as Free and Traffic, Three Dog Night still possessed a bit of a 'hip factor' in the world of music. And listening to this album today, I can see why. Although always leaning toward the pop end of music, the band could still include songs like Liar, for example, which even today has a certain power, an interesting atmosphere."

"Three Dog Night were successful at utilizing three lead singers combining soul, rock and blues into a sound that was distinctly their own. I can't think of too many groups that could harmonize as well as Three Dog Night and it's no wonder they were the early seventies most popular rock group. If there's one Three Dog Night LP you should buy, this should be it, as Naturally was released when the group was at the peak of their musical career. Highly recommended."

"Certainly dated yet by no means dead, Naturally provides the listener with a small fragment of this group's enormous talent - despite the second-rate lyrics. Driven by the incredible vocals of Hutton, Negron, and Wells, the album was a welcome change from their earlier works in both style and studio engineering."