"Shambala" was recorded by Three Dog Night in December 1972 and was released as a single on ABC/Dunhill Records on May 11, 1973. It became a top-10 hit reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 selling 1,250,000 singles. It appeared on their album “Cyan”, released October 9, 1973. Enjoy my DES [Digitally Extracted STEREO] conversion of this rock classic

"Shambala" was written by Daniel Moore and made famous by two near-simultaneous releases in 1973: the better-known and slightly later recording by Three Dog Night, which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a version by B. W. Stevenson, which topped at #66. Its title derives from a mythical place-name also spelled Shamballa or Shambhala. As per David Moore, “I wrote the words and melody, a cappella, driving on the Ventura Freeway in about 10 minutes. I got home, picked up my Martin guitar and had the music finished in 5 minutes; a pretty good 15 minutes”.

Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in 1967, with founding members consisting of vocalists Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, and Chuck Negron. This lineup was soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass), Michael Allsup (guitar), and Floyd Sneed (drums). The band had 21 Billboard Top 40 hits between 1969 and 1975, with three hitting number one. Three Dog Night recorded many songs written by outside songwriters, and they helped to introduce mainstream audiences to writers such as Paul Williams ("An Old Fashioned Love Song") and Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World").

Personnel on this recording:
Musicians
• Cory Wells – Lead Vocal
• Danny Hutton – Backing Vocal
• Chuck Negron – Backing Vocal
• Mike Allsup – Guitars
• Jimmy Greenspoon – Hammond B-3
• Jack Ryland – Bass
• Floyd Sneed – Drums

Production
• Producer: Richard Podolor
• Engineer: Bill Cooper
• Arranger: Richard Podolor, Three Dog Night


About the original track:
The source track was the “Duophonic” fake stereo mix from the 1982 compilation album: “The Best Of 3 Dog Night”. For whatever reason, there were a few Three Dog Night hits that were never mixed in stereo. Shambala was one of them. However, unlike the other few that were mixed mono-only, Shambala’s stereo mix was fake “Duophonic”, having a about an 8ms delay in the left channel, making it slightly right-justified. To make a true mono mix to work with, I deleted the left channel and copied the right channel over it. The EQ was a horrifically tinny, mid-rangey mess with a big spike at 4K, which I corrected with post-op EQ. It sounded like just slightly better than an AM Radio broadcast. I bought the album “Cyan” when it was released in October 1973. I don’t recall if this track was mono or duophonic.

About my DES STEREO mix:
For the Cory’s Lead Vocal, I centered him and added a slight stereo reverb. For Chuck’s & Dan’s Backing Vocals, I gave them a stereo surround-sound effect and added the same stereo reverb. I panned the Lead Guitar Left with opposing reverb into the Right. For the Acoustic Rhythm Guitar and Hammond B-3, I panned them Right with opposing reverb into the Left. For the Drums, I ran a limiter to brighten them up and give them definition and panned them left with opposing reverb into the right with a nicer EQ. I left the Bass centered and untouched.

Technical Information:
I used DeMIX PRO v3 to isolate Cory’s lead Vocal, Chuck’s and Dan’s Backing Vocal. Electric Lead Guitar, Acoustic Rhythm Guitar & Hammond B-3, Drums and Bass into 6 separate tracks. Adobe Audition 2020 was used for Dynamic Range recovery, Reverb, Delay, EQ, and final mixdown. Sonic Studio’s Amarra Luxe Sound Processor was used for post EQ and upsampling. NERO 2019 Platinum used to generate the final video.

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Enjoy my MONO-to-STEREO conversion of this huge top-10 hit from 1973 by Three Dog Night.

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