QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — Two radio rock bands that combined in the 1970s and 1980s combined for 30 Top 30 hits will share the stage at Univest Performance Center, it was announced Monday.
Three Dog Night, which from 1975-83 had 19 Top 30 hits on the Billboard Singles chart, and Little River Band, which had 11 Top 30 hits from 1977-83, will perform at 6 p.m. Aug. 15.
Tickets, at $47 for lawn seating and $57 to $150 for reserved seating, go on sale at 8:30 a.m. April 17 at the Univest Performance Center website.Univest Performance Center release
Tickets, at $47 for lawn seating and $57 to $150 for reserved seating, go on sale at 8:30 a.m. April 17 at the Univest Performance Center website.
The show is the sixth announced for the Sounds of Summer series this year.
More hits, more records and tickets sold
Three Dog Night From 1969-74 had more Top 10 hits and sold more records and concert tickets than any other act. Fourteen of its albums sold gold or platinum.
The group had the chart-toppers “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” “An Old Fashioned Love Song,” “Joy to the World” and “Black and White,” as well as “One,” “Never Been to Spain,” “Easy to Be Hard” and “The Show Must Go On.”
Seven of its singles were gold-sellers.
The group only has one original member, Danny Hutton. Lead singer Chuck Negron left the band in 1985 and tours solo. The third singer, Cory Wells, died in 2015.
Three Dog Night performed at Easton's State Theatre in November.
Little River Band
Little River Band is best known for its late 1970s hits “Help Is On Its Way,” “Reminiscing” and “Cool Change.”
It also had the hits “Happy Anniversary,” “Lady” and “Lonesome Loser.”
Five of its albums sold gold or platinum.
The band has no original members. It is led by vocalist/bassist Wayne Nelson, who has been in the band since 1980 an sang on its 1981 Top 10 hit "The Night Owls."
Previously announced for the Sounds of Summer concert series were The Little Mermen, which calls itself the ultimate Disney tribute band, on June 28.
Also, Yächtley Crëw, a Los Angeles band that plays the 1970s and '80s soft rock sounds of the Yacht Rock trend, on July 16; and Arrival From Sweden: The Music of ABBA, on July 18.
Also, Get The Led Out, which performs the music of 1970s heavy metal band Led Zeppelin, on Aug. 29. and country music singer Dylan Scott, known for his hit "My Girl," on Sept. 12
