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This song has appeared in several films, but the one that I took it from is Forrest Gump. It's one of my favorite movies, and this is a great song. There are a couple of interesting stories to tell with this song. What the heck is the song about, and where did the name Three Dog Night come from?
First, the band's name comes from a June Fairchild, Danny Hutton's (lead vocalist) girlfriend of the time. She had apparently been reading an article about Australia. In it, she had learned that on the coldest of nights sleeping in the outback, people indigenous to the country would sleep in a hole with dingos (a breed of local, wild dog), three of them, actually, hence, Three Dog Night.
As far as the song goes, it was released on the group's fourth studio album. It's one of the group's three number one hits of twenty-one singles that made the Billboard Charts. The lyrics from the song were kind of just made up on the spot. The song's writer, Hoyt Axton, had a song he wanted to convince his label to pick up for a group. They asked him to play the song (which didn't have lyrics); he just made them up on the spot. The first line was originally "Jeremiah was a prophet", but that didn't take with the band. Two out of the three main vocalists didn't even want to record the song, but Chuck Negron insisted the band needed something fun and silly.
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