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He is a singer and producer born Daniel Anthony Hutton
in Buncrana, Ireland. When he
was still a child his family relocated to Boston. Masschusetts and later he
moved to California and carve himself out a career as a voice over artist
in Los Angeles. He branched
out into music and released several singles with his most successful being “Roses
ad Rainbows”. In 1965 he took
on the position of Head of Hanna Barbera Records and stayed there for
around a year. Around that
time he also auditioned for a part in the new group The Monkees which
proved unsuccessful. By 1968
he had already worked with the singers Chuck Negron and Cory Wells and
after having got together again they formed the singing trio Redwood and
released several songs with the production handled by Brian Wilson of The
Beach Boys. They added a
group of musicians and called themselves Three Dog Night. They became one of the most
successful groups in the US from 1969 until the mid 1970s with hits such as
“An Old Fashioned Love Song”, “Black and White”,
Easy to be Hard”, “Joy to the World”, “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)”, “Shambala” and many more that still
appear today on TV, radio and in movies. The band went into a hiatus in 1975 and he branched out
into the management of punk rock groups. At the same time he led the Danny Hutton Hitters who had
their cover of “Wouldn’t It Be Good” featured on the soundtrack of Pretty
in Pink. In 1981 Three Dog
Night decided to get back together again and from then they have
continually performed in concert and regularly toured. He has worked with many other
artists during his career such as Little Feat, Van Dyke Parks and Frank
Zappa. Appearing on numerous albums
his work has been heard on American Pastime, Coming Down Your Way, Cyan,
Golden Bisquits, Hard Labor, Harmony, It Ain’t Easy, It’s a Jungle, Joy to
the World – Their Greatest Hits, Naturally, Seven Separate Fools, 35th
Anniversary Hits Collection with the London Symphony Orchestra and Suitable
for Faming by Three Dog Night, Beck, Bogert & Appice by
Beck, Bogert & Appice and Stills and Turnin’ Back the Pages
by Stephen Stills. Today he
can still be heard singing with Three Dog Night.
Joy to the
World (Hoyt Axton )
Old Gold OG-9795-B (UK 45)
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Hutton
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fnfrxqu5ldte~T1
- http://www.whitewolfzone.co.uk/hutton.htm
- http://www.fufkin.com/columns/fufkin/whatever_hutton.htm
- http://www.threedognight.com/band.html
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fnfrxqu5ldte~T4
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