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| Elvis & friend. Elvis is on the right. |
Might as well start things off with a song made famous by The King. I'm sure you've heard his version a thousand times. Guess what? Yep, it's a cover.
Bet you haven't heard the original version recently either.
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton's big hit came from the young songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was "Hound Dog", which she recorded in 1953 with the Johnny Otis band. Big Mama Thornton always claimed to have written the song herself (a claim which may actually hold some validity) and her ferocious rendition of it, complete with Big Mama’s trademark growl and a nasty guitar line by Pete Lewis, held the #1 spot in the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for nine weeks.
As Elvis himself said, "They played it like that in the shanties and juke joints and nobody paid it no mind until I goosed it up." Get your blue suede shoes on & check this out.
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Bet you haven't heard the original version recently either.
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton's big hit came from the young songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was "Hound Dog", which she recorded in 1953 with the Johnny Otis band. Big Mama Thornton always claimed to have written the song herself (a claim which may actually hold some validity) and her ferocious rendition of it, complete with Big Mama’s trademark growl and a nasty guitar line by Pete Lewis, held the #1 spot in the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for nine weeks.
As Elvis himself said, "They played it like that in the shanties and juke joints and nobody paid it no mind until I goosed it up." Get your blue suede shoes on & check this out.
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| Big Mama Thornton. All 6 foot & 350+ lbs. of her. |
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