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Hard Labor is the eleventh album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music).
The original album cover, depicting of the birth of a record album (shown at right), was deemed too controversial and was soon reworked with a huge bandage covering the "birth". The cover also includes an attached "birth record sheet" of the album. The label shown on the original cover's album is the same custom label used on the actual album.

Track listing

"Prelude" – 1:00

"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" (John Hiatt) – 4:46

"Anytime Babe" (Larry Weiss) – 3:07

"Interlude I" – 0:19

"Put out the Light" (Daniel Moore) – 3:06

"Sitting in Limbo" (Gully Bright, Jimmy Cliff, Plummer) – 4:56

"I'd Be So Happy" (Skip Prokop) – 4:48

"Interlude II" – 0:21

"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:48

"On the Way Back Home" (Moore) – 4:16

"The Show Must Go On" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer) – 4:24

Personnel

Mike Allsup - banjo, guitar

Jimmy Greenspoon - keyboard

Danny Hutton - vocals

Jimmy Iovine

Skip Konte - keyboard, ARP, chamberlain

Chuck Negron - vocals

Jack Ryland - bass

Joe Schermie - bass

Floyd Sneed - percussion, drums

Cory Wells - vocals

Production

Producer: Jimmy Ienner

Engineers: Greg Calbi, Roy Cicala, Dennis Ferrante, Jimmy Ienner, Jay Messina, Tom Rabstenek, John Stronach

Assistant engineers: Kalifornia Kurt Kinzel, Corky Stasiak

Remixing: Roy Cicala, Jay Messina

Arranger: Three Dog Night

Art direction: Ed Caraeff

Design: David Larkham

Photography: Ed Caraeff

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	20

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1974	"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here"	Pop Singles	16
1974	"The Show Must Go On"	Pop Singles	4
1974	"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)"	Pop Singles	33

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