Daniel Anthony Hutton (born September 10, 1942) is an Irish-American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night.

[3] Kathleen ran a Victorian rooming house, and young Danny had to answer the public phone on the first floor.

[2] When Hutton was 11 or 12, Kathleen, unable to cope with this new life of constant protection and paranoia, announced that the family were moving to Hollywood.

[2] Three Dog Night was based around the vocal skills of Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells.

In 1967, Hutton conceived the idea of a three-vocalist group, and he and Wells enlisted mutual friend Negron.

The official commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975 states that Hutton's then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested a name for the band after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians,[5] in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog.

Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote,While often criticized as commercial, the band was noted for creative arrangements and interpretations, and their cover choices gave exposure to Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Hoyt Axton, Russ Ballard and Leo Sayer.

Their backing musicians included guitarist Mike Allsup, keyboardist Jimmy Greenspoon, bassist Joe Schermie and drummer Floyd Sneed.

The band got back together in the early 1980s and continued with Hutton and Wells along with founding members Allsup and Greenspoon.

Three Dog Night started a tour in August 2021 that did not include Allsup, leaving Hutton as the sole original member.

After Three Dog Night's initial break up, Hutton managed punk rock bands, including Fear.

[8] He also fronted the Danny Hutton Hitters, whose cover of the Nik Kershaw song "Wouldn't It Be Good" appeared on the soundtrack for the 1986 film Pretty in Pink.