Song · Three Dog Night
“Shambala” by Three Dog Night
From the album Cyan (1973)
“Shambala” by Three Dog Night appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 1973 on the album Cyan. Its best result is #348 on the BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,675 indie & aaa song of all time.
Daniel Moore wrote "Shambala", words and music, and Three Dog Night took it to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973, the same year it turned up on their Dunhill album Cyan. It's sunny pop rock with its eyes fixed on somewhere far away.
The title points at the mythical kingdom of Shambhala, said to lie hidden in or beyond the Himalayan peaks and named in old writings such as the Kalachakra Tantra and the scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, though Moore cited Alice Bailey's A Treatise on White Magic, which placed the original site at a mystic temple in Peru. The song pictures a place where everybody is kind and pulls together, joy and luck run over and the weight comes off your shoulders, and the road there may be less a map than a spiritual path.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 348 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) | 500 |
| 2018 | 352 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) | 500 |
| 2020 | 1535 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 516 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2025 | 397 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 1152 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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