The Best Of 3 Dog Night

What's not to like about Three Dog Night? Well, their overwrought cover of Otis Redding's version of "Try a Little Tenderness," for one thing. But almost everything else on their 20-track best-of--a remarkably high percentage of which actually ended up high on the charts back in these guys' day--might remind you fondly of your teen years, or maybe the nine months you spent in third grade. Besides giving John Hiatt one of his first professional breaks (they made a hit of his "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" in 1974), the Dogs managed some truly graceful moments with the likes of "Celebrate" and "Out in the Country." --Rickey Wright