Happy Birthday to Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night. He of the exploding penis. Really.
Here’s the tale courtesy of spinner.com:
According to Chuck Negron, one of the three lead singers of the band that virtually lived in the Top 40 in the early 1970s (‘Joy to the World,’ ‘An Old-Fashioned Love Song,’ ‘One’), his by-the-book excesses — sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, followed by (a lot) more sex –eventually led to a brutal incident in which he found himself holding his bleeding instrument, split open “like a hot dog,” in an emergency room in Oklahoma.
In his book ‘Three Dog Nightmare,’ Negron recounts the buildup to this traumatic event. He went to see a doctor to get help with his organ, which was growing swollen and chapped from overuse. “In my ignorance I thought, ‘Wow! It’s just like working out a muscle. It’s going to be huge!'”
The doctor, however, was appalled. He made the singer promise to quit shtupping, cold turkey.
The embarrassment, he reports, was even more painful than the injury. Everyone on the hospital staff was “pointing and giggling,” and the doctor who stitched his manhood back together laughed all the while.
A week later the singer spotted a beauty queen backstage, “a Miss-Something-or-Other” who was ignoring the advances of his bandmates. Back in Negron’s room, one thing quickly led to another. Suddenly, he heard a ripping sound: “Tsh-tsH-tSHTSH!“
