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When “Eli” actually came
Responding quickly to Pierce McIntyre and his latest Plethora of Pop writing challenge, the live album that will always “live” for me in recorded history is Three Dog Night’s Captured Live at the Forum, an LP I bought in 1970 with lawn-mowing money for $3.69 at K-Mart not too long after I saw the band live in concert in Birmingham, AL for a mere $4.00 a ticket. I wrote about that concert here:
The record itself felt almost like my live show experience had been reproduced just for me (Such things would come full circle when Neil Young released his Tuscaloosa Live LP, 45 years after actually playing the show — a show I attended and wrote about, too, and I still don’t understand why he left “Cinnamon Girl” off that live record).
Back to the Dogs, though.
Three Dog Night had grabbed me the previous fall with their big hit “Easy To Be Hard” (sung by Chuck Negron, written by Laura Nyro), and then followed it up with another: “Eli’s Coming.” The hits kept on coming, though the others would be after the Live album was released. Of course…