Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog Night, at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
He was 83.
Negron was a singer-songwriter whose vocals led the rock band to such hits as “Joy to the World,” “One” and “An Old Fashioned Love Song,” per MS NOW.
Three Dog Night became one of the U.S.’ top rock bands of the late 1960s and early ’70s.
Negron died from complications from heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
His publicist Zach Farnum lauded Negron’s long career. He started as a a solo artist in 1960. In 1967, he, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton formed Three Dog Night in Los Angeles.
The vocal trio combined R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, and urban doo wop and were successful with songs such as a cover of “Mama Told Me Not to Come.”
An estrangement between Negron and Hutton developed, but the two men reconciled last year.
Hutton and Michael Allsup are the lone surviving members of Three Dog Night.
For three decades, Negron, toured with chronic COPD. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined him permanently.
Negron is survived by wife Ami Albea Negron and five children, including Berry Oakley Jr., the son of Allman Brothers Band bassist Berry Oakley, who was killed in a 1972 motorcycle accident.
