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Hard Labor

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Released
  
March 6, 1974

Length
  
35:51

Producer
  
Jimmy Ienner

Genre
  
Pop, rock

Label
  
Dunhill DSD-50168

Hard Labor (1974)
  
Joy to the World Their Greatest Hits (1974)

Hard Labor is the eleventh album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1974.

Contents

Cover Artwork

The original album cover, depicting the birth of a record album (shown at right), was deemed too controversial and was soon reworked with a huge bandage covering the "birth". The cover also includes an attached "birth record sheet" of the album. The label shown on the original cover's album is the same custom label used on the actual album. The CD reissue by MCA Records in the 1990s restored the cover to its original look showing the record. Albums that had already been produced had a bandage attached to them. Subsequent albums had the bandage printed on.

Side 1

  1. "Prelude" – 1:00
  2. "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (John Hiatt) – 4:46
  3. "Anytime Babe" (Larry Weiss) – 3:07
  4. "Interlude I" – 0:19
  5. "Put Out the Light" (Daniel Moore) – 3:06
  6. "Sitting in Limbo" (Gully Bright, Jimmy Cliff) – 4:56

Side 2

  1. "I'd Be So Happy" (Skip Prokop) – 4:48
  2. "Interlude II" – 0:21
  3. "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:48
  4. "On the Way Back Home" (Moore) – 4:16
  5. "The Show Must Go On" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer) – 4:24

Personnel

  • Mike Allsup - banjo, guitar
  • Jimmy Greenspoon - keyboard
  • Danny Hutton - background vocals
  • Jimmy Iovine
  • Skip Konte - keyboard, ARP, chamberlin
  • Chuck Negron - lead vocals (track B5), background vocals
  • Jack Ryland - bass
  • Joe Schermie - bass
  • Floyd Sneed - percussion, drums
  • Cory Wells - lead vocals (tracks A2, B3), background vocals

    • Production

  • Producer: Jimmy Ienner
  • Engineers: Greg Calbi, Roy Cicala, Dennis Ferrante, Jimmy Ienner, Jay Messina, Tom Rabstenek, John Stronach
  • Assistant engineers: Corky Stasiak
  • Remixing: Roy Cicala, Jay Messina
  • Arranger: Three Dog Night
  • Art direction and photography: Ed Caraeff
  • Design: David Larkham

    • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    References

    Hard Labor Wikipedia
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