Brian

As if the youngsters cared. But as the super seltzer proponent I feel compelled to answer. Despite your warranted skepticism as to Wikipedia, in this instance, the write up comports with what I remember hearing on the radio from the disc jockeys back in 1965. Apparently the CD set spelled it out.
[quote]The name

An official commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton�s then-girlfriend June Fairchild thought of the name when she read a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs, and if a night was especially cold, it was a "Three Dog Night"[/quote]
Charm