BestSongsEver.com: Three Dog Night

Genre: Rock
Year: 1971

"Joy to the World" is a song written by Hoyt Axton, and made famous by the band Three Dog Night. The song is also popularly known by its opening words, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog". Some of the words are nonsensical. Axton wanted to convince his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune. A member of Three Dog Night said that the original lyrics to the song was "Jeremiah was a prophet" but "no one liked that". Three Dog Nights version with lead vocal by Chuck Negron went to number one on the pop music charts in February 1971 and was the top single of the year in Billboard Magazine for 1971. The song was released on the bands album Naturally. It was also released on their albums Around the World With Three Dog Night Read full article at wikipedia.org