Seven Separate Fools
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Seven Separate Fools is the eighth album
Album
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 by American
United States
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 rock
Rock music
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 band Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...

, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music
1972 in music
-Events:*January 17 – Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Boulevard"*January 20 – The début of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties,...

).

Track listing

  1. "Black and White
    Black and White (Three Dog Night song)
    "Black and White" is a song written in 1954 by David I. Arkin and Earl Robinson.The most successful recording of the song was the pop version by Three Dog Night in 1972, when it reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Easy Listening charts...

    " (David I. Arkin
    David I. Arkin
    David I. Arkin was a teacher, painter, writer, and lyricist, and is the father of actor Alan Arkin.Arkin was born in the United States. In 1945, Arkin moved his family to Los Angeles, California to take a teaching job. Arkin attempted to obtain work in the entertainment industry, but was...

    , Earl Robinson
    Earl Robinson
    Earl Hawley Robinson was a singer-songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-leaning political views as he is for his music, including the songs "Joe Hill", "Black and White", and the cantata "Ballad for Americans"...

    ) – 3:51
  2. "My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)" (Randy Newman
    Randy Newman
    Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

    ) – 3:08
  3. "Prelude to Morning" (Greenspoon) – 2:04
  4. "Pieces of April" (Dave Loggins
    Dave Loggins
    David Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame...

    ) – 4:10
  5. "Going In Circles" (Jaiananda, Ted Myers) – 3:06
  6. "Chained" (Russ Ballard
    Russ Ballard
    Russell Glyn Ballard is an English singer, songwriter and musician.-Career:Ballard was initially a guitarist with Buster Meikle & The Day Breakers in 1961, together with Roy Ballard, Russ's older brother on piano and Bob Henrit on drums...

    ) – 5:14
  7. "Tulsa Turnaround" (Larry Collins, Alex Harvey) – 3:41
  8. "In Bed" (Tom Baird, Lynn Henderson, Wes Henderson) – 3:58
  9. "Freedom for the Stallion" (Allen Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet ", "Southern...

    ) – 3:41
  10. "The Writing's on the Wall" (Domenic Troiano) – 3:17
  11. "Midnight Runaway" (Gary Itri) – 5:28

Personnel

  • Mike Allsup - guitar
    Guitar
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  • Jimmy Greenspoon
    Jimmy Greenspoon
    Jimmy Greenspoon is an American keyboard player, best known as a member of the band, Three Dog Night. He currently lives in Montgomery County, Maryland....

     - keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Danny Hutton
    Danny Hutton
    Daniel Anthony Hutton , is an Irish-American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band, Three Dog Night. Hutton was the head of Hanna Barbera Records from 1965-1966...

     - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Chuck Negron
    Chuck Negron
    Charles "Chuck" Negron is an American singer-songwriter, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night, which he helped to form in 1968.-Biography:...

     - vocals
  • Joe Schermie
    Joe Schermie
    Joe Schermie was an American musician, best known as the bass player for the 1970s American rock-pop group Three Dog Night.-Biography:Schermetzler was born in Madison, Wisconsin....

     - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Floyd Sneed
    Floyd Sneed
    Floyd Sneed is a black Canadian drummer, best known for his work with the band Three Dog Night....

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Cory Wells
    Cory Wells
    Cory Wells is an American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night.-Life and career:...

     - vocals

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1972 Pop Albums 6


Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1972 "Black & White" (3:24 edit) Pop Singles 1
"Black & White" (3:24 edit) Adult Contemporary 1
"Pieces of April" Pop Singles 19
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