Hard Labor

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Hard Labor

Studio album by Three Dog Night

Released

March 6, 1974

Genre

Pop, rock

Length

35:51

Label

Dunhill DSD-50168

Producer

Jimmy Ienner

Three Dog Night chronology

Cyan
(1973)

Hard Labor
(1974)

Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits
(1974)

Singles from Hard Labor

"The Show Must Go On"
Released: 1974
"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here"
Released: 1974
"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)"
Released: 1974

Hard Labor is the eleventh album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1974.

Cover Artwork

The original album cover, depicting the birth of a record album (shown at right), was deemed too controversial and was soon reworked with a huge bandage covering the "birth". The cover also includes an attached "birth record sheet" of the album. The label shown on the original cover's album is the same custom label used on the actual album. The CD reissue by MCA Records in the 1990s restored the cover to its original look showing the record. Albums that had already been produced had a bandage attached to them. Subsequent albums had the bandage printed on.

Track listing

Side 1

"Prelude" – 1:00
"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (John Hiatt) – 4:46
"Anytime Babe" (Larry Weiss) – 3:07
"Interlude I" – 0:19
"Put Out the Light" (Daniel Moore) – 3:06
"Sitting in Limbo" (Gully Bright, Jimmy Cliff) – 4:56

Side 2

"I'd Be So Happy" (Skip Prokop) – 4:48
"Interlude II" – 0:21
"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:48
"On the Way Back Home" (Moore) – 4:16
"The Show Must Go On" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer) – 4:24

Personnel

Mike Allsup - banjo, guitar
Jimmy Greenspoon - keyboard
Danny Hutton - background vocals
Jimmy Iovine
Skip Konte - keyboard, ARP, chamberlin
Chuck Negron - lead vocals (track B5), background vocals
Jack Ryland - bass
Joe Schermie - bass
Floyd Sneed - percussion, drums
Cory Wells - lead vocals (tracks A2, B3), background vocals

Production

Producer: Jimmy Ienner
Engineers: Greg Calbi, Roy Cicala, Dennis Ferrante, Jimmy Ienner, Jay Messina, Tom Rabstenek, John Stronach
Assistant engineers: Corky Stasiak
Remixing: Roy Cicala, Jay Messina
Arranger: Three Dog Night
Art direction and photography: Ed Caraeff
Design: David Larkham

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	20^[1]

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1974	"The Show Must Go On"	Pop Singles	4^[2]
	"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here"	Pop Singles	16^[3]
	"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)"	Pop Singles	33^[4]

References

↑ Three Dog Night, Hard Labor Chart Position Retrieved February 16, 2015
↑ Three Dog Night, "The Show Must Go On" Chart Position Retrieved February 16, 2015
↑ Three Dog Night, "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" Chart Position Retrieved February 16, 2015
↑ Three Dog Night, "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" Chart Position Retrieved February 16, 2015

Three Dog Night

Danny Hutton Michael Allsup Paul Kingery Pat Bautz Eddie Reasoner David Morgan Cory Wells Chuck Negron Jimmy Greenspoon Floyd Sneed Joe Schermie Skip Konte Al Ciner Gary Moon Richard Campbell

Studio albums	Three Dog Night (1968) Suitable for Framing (1969) It Ain't Easy (1970) Naturally (1970) Harmony (1971) Seven Separate Fools (1972) Cyan (1973) Hard Labor (1974) Coming Down Your Way (1975) American Pastime (1976) It's a Jungle (1983)

Live albums	Captured Live at the Forum (1969) Around the World with Three Dog Night (1973)

Compilations	Golden Bisquits (1971) Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits (1975) The Best of 3 Dog Night (1982) Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975 (1993) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Three Dog Night (1999)

Singles	"Nobody" "Try a Little Tenderness" "One" "Easy to Be Hard" "Eli's Coming" "Celebrate" "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" "Out in the Country" "One Man Band" "Joy to the World" "Liar" "An Old Fashioned Love Song" "Never Been to Spain" "The Family of Man" "Black & White" "Pieces of April" "Shambala" "Let Me Serenade You" "The Show Must Go On" "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" "Til the World Ends" "Everybody Is a Masterpiece" "It's a Jungle Out There"

Discography Book

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