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Local History

Three Dog Night (7/29/1975)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Three Dog Night w/ Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Date: 29 July 1975
Tickets: $6.50 in advance, $7.50 day of the show (reserved and general admission)
Attendance: 7,000 (sellout)
Notes: Members of the band ‘Rufus’ filled in for absent band members.

Setlist (Three Dog Night*): Coming Down Your Way, The Family of Man, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Liar, Eli’s Coming, An Old Fashioned Love Song, Black and White, One, Pieces of April, Mind Over Matter, Try a Little Tenderness, Celebrate, (others).

Setlist (Dr. Hook*): I Got Stoned and I Missed It, The Cover of Rolling Stone, (others).

*based on a documented setlists, although incomplete and not necessarily in the correct order.

Return to the Wings Stadium Concert History page >

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 7 June 1975, (top right) 29 June 1975, (bottom right) 30 June 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 5 July 1975, (right) 27 July 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 July 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 13 July 1975, (right) 27 July 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top) 30 July 1975, (bottom left) 29 July 1975, (bottom right) 24 September 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 September 1975, (inset right) 6 August 1975. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“‘Three Dog Night’ added to Wings Stadium schedule”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 June 1975, page A-7

“Tickets moving”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 29 June 1975, page D-2

“Why Three Dog?”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 June 1975, page C-7

“Singer arrested”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 5 July 1975, page B-4

“Three Dog Night here on July 29”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 July 1975, page C-11

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 July 1975, page C-14

“Three Dog Night expected to draw capacity audience”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 July 1975, page C-14

Display ad
Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 July 1975, page C-17

“Three Dog Night’s oldies still getting the acclaim”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 July 1975, page C-8

“Questions, answers about Wings Stadium”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 August 1975, page A-7

“Singer freed of drug charges”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 24 September 1975, page D-8

“Three Dog Night has a good day’s fishing”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 September 1975, page F-3

Websites

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: Three Dog Night setlist, 29 July 1975, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (incomplete)

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: Dr. Hook setlist, 29 July 1975, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (incomplete)