Cyan by Three Dog Night

Cyan, the seventh studio album from Three Dog Night, came out on Dunhill on October 9, 1973, and it very nearly went out under a far stranger name: Seven Ball, Center Pocket, a title that got swapped for a single color for reasons nobody seems to know. Richard Podolor produced, and the band's three-voice front line of Chuck Negron, Cory Wells and Danny Hutton was intact, with Jack Ryland on bass and Skip Konte on keyboards newly in the ranks.

This was a band that had built its name on other writers' songs, turning tunes by Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and Hoyt Axton into hits, and the harmonies are still the whole point. "Shambala" is the one the countdowns held on to, bright and easy-rolling, made for those three voices to pile into together.

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