Jimmy Greenspoon
American musician (1948–2015)
James Boyd Greenspoon was an American keyboard player and composer, best known as a member of the band Three Dog Night.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jimmy Greenspoon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.