never made it back to the Top 40, most likely because Three Dog Night didn’t have many more songs to ripoff. took his shambala’d Maria into the Top 10 only 3 months after Three Dog Night was there. sat down and wrote My Maria that while not exactly an entire rip-off, was similar enough to fool the public that A.) Three Dog Night had a new hit or B.) that they had misheard the chorus and they were singing Ma-ree-eeee–eeee–eee-ee-ya and not ah-wa-ooh-yee-ooh-yee-yee-ya. Shee-it, I’ll even help you out to speed the process along.‘ was so pissed he called up the write of Shambala and said, ‘ Write me another Shambala and make it quick. The band was Three Dog Night and the song was Shambala. band comes along with a slicker version and sashays up to #3 while stomping the life out of B.W.’s 45.
He records a song that he swears is a sure-fire hit, releases it and it makes the Hot 100.
