Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy (1969) Vinyl and similar items

Catalog Number: DS-50078-A Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Gate-fold cover looks okay; a few creases near edges; moderate scuffing and surface abrasion spots (front/back/inner-gate); noticeable abrasion at center hinge of inner-gate. Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); one seam partially split. Spine is barely readable with significant wear especially from top to center. Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge, heavier wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. Columbia House pressing from 1974. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Woman Cowboy It Ain't Easy Out In The Country Good Feeling Rock Roll Widow Mama Told Me (Not To Come) Your Song Good Time Living About The Record: It Ain't Easy, by American rock band Three Dog Night, brought the group their first No. 1 hit, a memorable version of Randy Newman's fear-of-partying song Mama Told Me (Not to Come). Although much more melodramatic than Newman's recording, Three Dog Night's rendering was cleverly orchestrated and impossible to escape. According to singer Chuck Negron's book Three Dog Nightmare, the album's working title was The Wizards of Orange, with a cover featuring the band's members wearing orange make-up and body stockings to appear as if they were posing in the nude. The band's record company, ABC/Dunhill, rejected the original album title and cover art. It Ain't Easy also included another Randy Newman composition, Cowboy, the song he'd written for Midnight Cowboy, which was rejected by the filmmakers in favor of Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin'. The Elton John classic Your Song makes its first appearance on this album as well, predating John's own recorded version by several months.