Editing Seven Separate Fools

{{Infobox album
| name       = Seven Separate Fools
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Three Dog Night]]
| cover      = Three Dog Night - Seven Separate Fools.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = July 1972<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCgEAAAAMBAJ&q=seven+separate+fools&pg=PA33|title=Billboard|date=July 22, 1972}}</ref>
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     = [[American Recording Co.]], [[Studio City, Los Angeles|Studio City]], California
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[rock music|rock]]
| length     = 41:07
| label      = [[Dunhill Records|Dunhill]]
| producer   = [[Richard Podolor]]
| prev_title = [[Harmony (Three Dog Night album)|Harmony]]
| prev_year  = 1971
| next_title = [[Around the World With Three Dog Night]]
| next_year  = 1973
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Seven Separate Fools
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Black and White (Three Dog Night song)|Black and White]]
 | single1date = August 1972
 | single2     = [[Pieces of April (song)|Pieces of April]]
 | single2date = November 1972
}}
}}

'''''Seven Separate Fools''''' is the eighth studio album by American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Three Dog Night]]. Released in 1972, the album reached number six on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], becoming the band's highest-charting album. The LP version of the album was released with seven large playing cards (each nearly 12 inches in height)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210723163759/http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/three-dog-night-seven-separate-fools-lp-with-oversize-playing-cards-nm_8114574] </ref> as an extra bonus.

Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, who contributed "[[Time to Get Alone]]" to the pre-TDN vocal trio Redwood, placed the LP at No. 3 among his all-time Top Ten favorite records in a 2016 conversation with Esquire's Middle East branch. Wilson succinctly stated, "Danny Hutton’s vocals are truly on point."<ref name="wwref">[https://www.EsquireME.com/content/18194-brian-wilson%E2%80%99s-10-favourite-records "Brian Wilson’s 10 Favourite Records"], EsquireME.com; accessed December 19, 2019.</ref>

{{Album reviews
|rev1 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev1score = (not rated) [https://web.archive.org/web/20071111204325/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/threedognight/albums/album/260749/review/5946896/seven_separate_fools link]
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2Score = C<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: T|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=T&bk=70|accessdate=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
| rev4Score = C+<ref name="Hull">{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=November 2013|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/cg/cg13-11.php|title=Recycled Goods (#114)|work=A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge|publisher=Tom Hull|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>
}}

==Track listing==
#"[[Black and White (Three Dog Night song)|Black and White]]" ([[David I. Arkin]], [[Earl Robinson]]) – 3:51
#"My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)" ([[Randy Newman]]) – 3:08
#"Prelude to Morning" ([[Jimmy Greenspoon]]) – 2:04
#"[[Pieces of April (song)|Pieces of April]]" ([[Dave Loggins]]) – 4:10
#"Going in Circles" (Jaiananda, Ted Myers) – 3:06
#"Chained" ([[Russ Ballard]]) – 5:14
#"Tulsa Turnaround" ([[Larry Collins (musician)|Larry Collins]], Alex Harvey) – 3:41
#"In Bed" (Tom Baird, Lynn Henderson, Wes Henderson) – 3:58
#"Freedom for the Stallion" ([[Allen Toussaint]]) – 3:41
#"The Writing's on the Wall" ([[Domenic Troiano]]) – 3:17
#"Midnight Runaway" (Gary Itri) – 5:28

==Personnel==
*Mike Allsup – [[guitar]]
*[[Jimmy Greenspoon]] – [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
*[[Danny Hutton]] – [[lead vocalist|lead vocals]] (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10), [[backing vocalist|background vocals]]
*[[Chuck Negron]] – lead vocals (tracks 4, 5, 6, 9, 11), background vocals
*Joe Schermie – [[bass guitar]]
*[[Floyd Sneed]] – [[drum kit|drums]]
*[[Cory Wells]] – lead vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9), background vocals
with:
*Patrick Sullivan – cello on "Pieces of April"
*Gary Itri – acoustic guitar on "Midnight Runaway"

==Production==
*[[Record producer|Producer]]: [[Richard Podolor]]
*[[Ed Caraeff]] – art direction, photography, design concept
*David Larkham – graphics, typography, design concept

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1972)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=309}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 21
|-
| US Pop Albums<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/seven-separate-fools-mw0001962878/awards Three Dog Night, ''Seven Separate Fools'' Chart Position] Retrieved February 16, 2015</ref>
|align="center"|6
|}

'''Singles''' – ''Billboard'' (United States)
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Single
!Chart
!Position
|-
|rowspan="4"|1972
|rowspan="2"|"Black and White" (3:24 edit)
|Pop Singles
|align="center"|1<ref>[http://musicvf.com/song.php?title=Black+and+White+by+Three+Dog+Night&id=46004 Three Dog Night, "Black and White" Chart Positions] Retrieved February 16, 2015</ref>
|-
|Adult Contemporary
|align="center"|1
|-
|rowspan="2"|"[[Pieces of April (song)|Pieces of April]]"
|Pop Singles
|align="center"|19<ref>[http://musicvf.com/song.php?title=Pieces+of+April+by+Three+Dog+Night&id=46005 Three Dog Night, "Pieces of April" Chart Positions] Retrieved February 16, 2015</ref>
|-
|Adult Contemporary
|align="center"|6
|-
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Three Dog Night|title=Seven Separate Fools|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1972|certyear=1972|accessdate=February 14, 2019	}}
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==References==
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{{Three Dog Night}}

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[[Category:1972 albums]]
[[Category:Three Dog Night albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Richard Podolor]]
[[Category:Dunhill Records albums]]