Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits

Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Three Dog Night
Released	November 1974
Recorded	1968-74
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	47:15
Label	Dunhill DSD-50178
Producer	Jimmy Ienner, Gabriel Mekler, Richard Podolor
Three Dog Night chronology
Hard Labor (1974) Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits (1974) Coming Down Your Way (1975)

Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits is the twelfth album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1974. It is the follow-up compilation to Golden Bisquits, consisting of eleven (out of twelve) charted hits from the group's previous four studio albums (the top 20 hit "Pieces of April" was left off for reasons unknown), two charted hits that already appeared on their first greatest hits compilation ("One" and "One Man Band"), and non-charting B-side "I'd Be So Happy".

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Track listing

Side one

1. "Joy to the World" (Hoyt Axton) – 3:50
2. "One" (Harry Nilsson) - 3:04
3. "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (John Hiatt) - 3:06
4. "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (Paul Williams) - 3:21
5. "Let Me Serenade You" (John Finley) - 3:04
6. "Shambala" (Daniel Moore) - 3:22
7. "Black and White" (David I. Arkin, Earl Robinson) - 3:47

Side two

1. "Never Been to Spain" (Axton) - 3:43
2. "One Man Band" (Billy Fox, January Tyme, Tommy Kaye) - 2:49
3. "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (Allen Toussaint) - 3:34
4. "I'd Be So Happy" (Skip Prokop) - 3:44
5. "Liar" (Russ Ballard) - 3:04
6. "The Family of Man" (Jack Conrad, Williams) - 3:10
7. "The Show Must Go On" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer) - 3:37

Personnel

• Mike Allsup - banjo, guitar
• Jimmy Greenspoon - keyboards
• Danny Hutton - vocals
• Skip Konte - keyboards on "The Show Must Go On", "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", "Play Something Sweet" and "I'd Be So Happy"
• Chuck Negron - vocals
• Joe Schermie - bass guitar except as indicated below
• Jack Ryland - bass guitar on "Shambala", "Let Me Serenade You", "The Show Must Go On", "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", "Play Something Sweet" and "I'd Be So Happy"
• Floyd Sneed - drums, percussion
• Cory Wells - vocals

Production

• Producers: Jimmy Ienner, Gabriel Mekler, Richard Podolor

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

References

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 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 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" Book