Hard Labor

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)

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

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 1990's 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

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

Side 2

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

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

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: Ed Caraeff
• Design: David Larkham
• Photography: Ed Caraeff

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

v t e Three Dog Night Cory Wells Danny Hutton Jimmy Greenspoon Michael Allsup Paul Kingery Pat Bautz Chuck Negron Floyd Sneed Joe Schermie Jack Ryland Skip Konte Mickey McMeel James "Smitty" Smith Dennis Belfield Al Ciner Jay Gruska Ron Stockert Mike Seifrit Richard Grossman Mike Keely Scott Manzo Steve Ezzo Gary Moon T.J. Parker Richard Campbell Mike Cuneo 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) Three Dog Night: Live (1988) Live with the London Symphony Orchestra (2002) 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) The Complete Hit Singles (2004) Singles "Nobody" "Try a Little Tenderness" "One" "Easy to Be Hard" "Eli's Comin'" "Celebrate" "Mama Told Me Not to Come" "Out in the Country" "Joy to the World" "Liar" "One Man Band" "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" Book