Hard Labor

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Hard Labor
Studio album by Three Dog Night
Released	March 1974
Recorded	???
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	35:51
Label	Dunhill DSD-50168
Producer	Jimmy Ienner
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (2/5) link Rolling Stone (not rated) link
Three Dog Night chronology
Cyan (1973) Hard Labor (1974) Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits (1974)

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

The original album cover, depicting of 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.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "Prelude" – 1:00
2. "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (John Hiatt) – 4:46
3. "Anytime Babe" (Larry Weiss) – 3:07
4. "Interlude I" – 0:19
5. "Put out the Light" (Daniel Moore) – 3:06
6. "Sitting in Limbo" (Gully Bright, Jimmy Cliff, Plummer) – 4:56
7. "I'd Be So Happy" (Skip Prokop) – 4:48
8. "Interlude II" – 0:21
9. "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:48
10. "On the Way Back Home" (Moore) – 4:16
11. "The Show Must Go On" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer) – 4:24

[edit] Personnel

• Mike Allsup - banjo, guitar
• Jimmy Greenspoon - keyboard
• Danny Hutton - vocals
• Jimmy Iovine
• Skip Konte - keyboard, ARP, chamberlain
• Chuck Negron - vocals
• Jack Ryland - bass
• Joe Schermie - bass
• Floyd Sneed - percussion, drums
• Cory Wells - vocals

[edit] Production

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

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	20

Singles - Billboard (North America)

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