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Michael Allsup
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<h2 id="background">Background</h2> <p>Allsup's parents were originally from <a href="/facts/Oklahoma/fK28L1a4">Oklahoma</a>, but relocated to the small town of <a href="/facts/Empire%2c_California/bkp78uhk">Empire, California</a>. Allsup became interested in a guitar in his teens and started his musical career by playing in a dance band with some friends from high school. He played in numerous local bands before relocating to Los Angeles in 1968, where he met a trio of vocalists (<a href="/facts/Danny_Hutton/glPpbtW2">Danny Hutton</a>, <a href="/facts/Chuck_Negron/c3Pw8L84">Chuck Negron</a>, and <a href="/facts/Cory_Wells/JmBo0lFW">Cory Wells</a>), who had a recording contract with <a href="/facts/Dunhill_Records/3q3uyB1a">Dunhill Records</a> and were looking for backing musicians. Allsup joined their new band, Three Dog Night, which became successful in the late 1960s thru the mid-1970s. Allsup left the band in early-mid 1975 to form his own band, SS Fools, with former Three Dog Night members Joe Schermie and Floyd Sneed, along with Stan Seymore, Wayne DeVillier, <a href="/facts/Bobby_Kimball/ebY1nMwq">Bobby Kimball</a>, and Jon Smith, to little success. In 2015, he was touring with Three Dog Night, with band co-founder <a href="/facts/Danny_Hutton/glPpbtW2">Danny Hutton</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.michaelallsup.com">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Three Dog Night pounds out rock story in sharp detail". Billboard. August 16, 1969. pp. 18, 23. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Bahr, Jeff (July 12, 2017). "Founder strives to maintain quality of Three Dog Night". The Grand Island Independent. Retrieved 22 April 2021. <a href="https://theindependent.com/life/entertainment/founder-strives-to-maintain-quality-of-three-dog-night/article_7a0339a2-6751-11e7-aae0-77158fd99a92.html" target="_blank">https://theindependent.com/life/entertainment/founder-strives-to-maintain-quality-of-three-dog-night/article_7a0339a2-6751-11e7-aae0-77158fd99a92.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Onesti, Ron (30 October 2015). "Ron Onesti: Three Dog Night … down to one dog standing". Daily Herald. Retrieved 22 April 2021. <a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151030/insights/151039994/" target="_blank">https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151030/insights/151039994/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>