Three Dog Night - Suitable For Framing [2]

Title: Three Dog Night - Suitable For Framing
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Pop Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Los Angeles, California 10/26
Matrix #: DS 50058 (Dunhill, US, gatefold, gray ABC Dunhill label); runout not legible in photo
Condition: EX (LM) | Members: Danny H (42' - ), Chuck N (42' - 26'), Cory W (41' - 15'), Jimmy G (48' - 15'), Michael A (47' - ), Joe S (46' - 02'), Floyd S (42' - 23') | Producer: Gabriel Mekler
Cultural Facts: [2]

1. Brian Wilson Passed on Them: Before they were Three Dog Night, singers Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron and Cory Wells were a trio called Redwood, and Brian Wilson cut songs with them while the Beach Boys were making Wild Honey. They nearly became one of the first acts on the Beach Boys' own Brother Records, but Wilson felt they never sang well enough for him. Mike Love later put it simply: they went off and made billions.
2. Named for a Freezing Night: The story told on the band's own box set is that Hutton's girlfriend, actress June Fairchild, read about Aboriginal Australians sleeping beside dingoes for warmth, with a three dog night being the coldest kind. Fairchild later played the Ajax Lady in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. Arranger Van Dyke Parks has insisted the name was actually his suggestion.
3. Greasepaint and the GTOs: The gatefold photo inside this sleeve shows the band in greasepaint makeup posing with the GTOs, the Los Angeles groupie troupe Frank Zappa recorded. The record also slipped in Lady Samantha by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, a year before most Americans had heard of either one, and the Chicago horn section plays on Celebrate and Feelin' Alright.