ATLANTA, June 28 (UPI) -- Three Dog Night was one of the top U.S. bands in the late 1960s and 1970s, but lately it says the band gets no respect.
"We've been on a mission in a way," Three Dog Night singer Danny Hutton told CNN.com in an interview Monday to promote the band's new greatest hits album, "Three Dog Night: The Complete Hit Singles."
"We're trying to get people to realize our place in history, how popular we were -- we've kind of been buried," Hutton said.
From 1969-1974, the group had 12 straight gold LPs and by 1975 the band had sold nearly 50 million records.
Irish-born Hutton was a solo singer having little success in the 1960s until he joined Cory Wells who was singing lead for a Los Angles band, The Enemys. The two brought in Chuck Negron to try Hutton's idea of a band with three lead singers.
Their quickest recordings often turned out to be the best, "Never Been to Spain" was recorded in 45 minutes, while "Heavy Church," took 10 days "and just laid there," Hutton said.
Four original members of the band have touring for several years.
