I cannot figure this song out!

[failsafe]

Has anyone seen the latest Micheloeb beer commercial? Towards the end of it as the commercial fades a chorus of a song I believe is from the 70's goes :
" Aaahaaaaawhooooooooooooooooooo.............yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah "

No it's not 'Werewolf of London'.

I can't get that chorus out of my head! Anyone know the song?

 

[RicoGregg]

Methinks that you may be thinking of Shambala by Three Dog Night. Lyrics:

http://www.threedognight.com/l_sham.html

 

[failsafe]

Yessir that's it. Just played a YouTube video of it. Thank you.

 

[rickradio]

Yeah, "Shambala" seems to be enjoying a resurgence of sorts in popularity...35 years after it was initially released. A knock-off of it is also on another commercial touting "FreeMedsNow.com," I think. The spot has a yellow background, whereas the beer commercial has the real song. And isn't it Bud Light, not Michelob?

Kinda sounds to me like some kid at an ad agency who wasn't yet born in 1973 just discovered the song and decided to use it.

 

[landtuna]

Three Dog Night was an Australian band and got their name from a common phrase Down Under to mean "a very cold night".

 

[rickradio]

From the "If Anyone Cares" Department:

CORRECTION: The commercial is for FreeStyleLite.com blood glucose monitoring systems, not FreeMedsNow.

Three Dog Night was an Australian band and got their name from a common phrase Down Under to mean "a very cold night".

Yup. As opposed to a one dog night, for example, which wasn't as cold as a two dog night. Aussies apparently take their dogs to bed on cold nights to help keep warm.

 

[RicoGregg]

Three Dog Night did one of the most deceptive things in Rock and Roll, ever.

Around 1971, they released a live album. The covers had all the pretty trimmings, i.e.-

LOS ANGELES FORUM

20,000 PEOPLE WERE THERE

3 DOG NIGHT ROCKED THEM

THE CROWD WAS KNOCKED OVER

HEAR THE EXCITEMENT

yada, yada. You get the idea. As true as all that might have been, there was one little detail that they left out:

The 20,000 people at the Forum were there to see Led Zeppelin! Three Dog Night was on the undercard.

As big as they might have been, I don't think that 3 Dog Night could have drawn 20,000 people as headliners.

Other acts have had the honesty and integrity to mention being supporting acts on their albums.

 

[azumanga]

Three Dog Night was an Australian band and got their name from a common phrase Down Under to mean "a very cold night".

While the phrase was Australian, the band wasn't -- they're American:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night

 

[LKellerIII]

Three Dog Night did one of the most deceptive things in Rock and Roll, ever.

Around 1971, they released a live album. The covers had all the pretty trimmings, i.e.-
LOS ANGELES FORUM. 20,000 PEOPLE WERE THERE. 3 DOG NIGHT ROCKED THEM. THE CROWD WAS KNOCKED OVER
HEAR THE EXCITEMENT. yada, yada. You get the idea. As true as all that might have been, there was one little detail that they left out:

The 20,000 people at the Forum were there to see Led Zeppelin! Three Dog Night was on the undercard. As big as they might have been, I don't think that 3 Dog Night could have drawn 20,000 people as headliners. Other acts have had the honesty and integrity to mention being supporting acts on their albums.

Well...it's not really deceptive - they didn't claim to be the headliner, and they may well have "rocked the crowd"...who knows.

Regardless, they were primarily a Pop-rock band, and got more air play on Top 40 radio than the Album rock stations that were playing Zeppelin. I don't remember every hearing their songs on KMET, for example - but they were all over Boss Radio.

 

[1069_KIFR]

Shambala: Any relation to the song from the movie 'Animal House'?

Otis Redding sings 'Sham a lama ding dong'

 

[LKellerIII]

"Shambala: Any relation to the song from the movie 'Animal House'? Otis Redding sings 'Sham a lama ding dong' "

C'mon KIFR, at your age, you should know the difference between a Bala and a Lama Ding Dong.

 

[1069_KIFR]

That was a special remark in rememberance to Bay Meadows Race Track... a s t r e c t c h !
"And they're coming down the strectch1"

 

[MichaelLAX]

That's Otis Day & the Knights in "Animal House" played by DeWayne Jessie in the movie (apparently briefly in The Coasters as a youth in 1957 according to IMDB).

Three Dog Night was a hugely popular group in the late '60s and early '70s. It was not uncommon in that era for two "super" groups to appear together at the Forum. I saw them at the Forum with Steppenwolf also on the bill.

Drugs took their toll on the group and they have never forgiven Chuck Negron for his drug-induced abuses and to this day, they do not let him tour with the reconstituted group and they successfully sued him from touring under any form of the Three Dog Night name.

 

[RicoGregg]

Three Dog Night was a hugely popular group in the late '60s and early '70s. It was not uncommon in that era for two "super" groups to appear together at the Forum. I saw them at the Forum with Steppenwolf also on the bill.

Drugs took their toll on the group and they have never forgiven Chuck Negron for his drug-induced abuses and to this day, they do not let him tour with the reconstituted group and they successfully sued him from touring under any form of the Three Dog Night name.

That certainly would explain why Jeremiah was a bullfrog!

 

[failsafe]

Three Dog Night was a hugely popular group in the late '60s and early '70s. It was not uncommon in that era for two "super" groups to appear together at the Forum. I saw them at the Forum with Steppenwolf also on the bill.

Drugs took their toll on the group and they have never forgiven Chuck Negron for his drug-induced abuses and to this day, they do not let him tour with the reconstituted group and they successfully sued him from touring under any form of the Three Dog Night name.

That certainly would explain why Jeremiah was a bullfrog!

One is the lonliest number that you'll ever feel......................