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Chuck Negron, Pt. 1: Estranged Three Dog Night Voice Keeps Singing 'Joy to the World'

Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 10 June 2013

"JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG!" That odd, simple and urgent declarative sentence from Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' is one of the most famous classic-rock song openings of all time. But the man who sang it both then and now, Chuck Negron, says that what became the group's most recognizable hit almost never even made it to vinyl.

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