elvis Stole the songs people, he gave no credit to blacks because it was not popular with his white audience. He stole all he could and, no one got credit but elvis. most of the rock and roll inventors lost a lot of money due to elvis.
@igetsomepussy187 Black Memphis DJ Rufus Thomas 'stole' the song before Elvis was even famous by bring out a song called 'Bear Cat' same tune, different title so why do you say that Elvis 'stole' the song? How can you say Elvis never gave credit to black people when its a fact he did?
This has become one of my favorite guitar songs. I did some research and the player is a guy named Pete Lewis, from the Johnny Otis Band; you can find an article about him by searching pete guitar lewis on google. After the recent passing of Johnny Otis, I heard on the radio that Mr. Otis himself is the drummer on this song.
I have to say that being an Afro Latino and just learning the history of American music, I am left to saying "African Americans are GENIUSES" and their history music wise is very similar to ours in Latin American our history and the greatness we represent have always been stolen, what a shame and to this day no body give us any credit for nothing
"Thank God things are little different now," Intelligent black musician now a days are controlling their own destiny and finances. Am a actor,and singer is about ready to plunge into the music world. There is still a lot of racism out there. Our ancestor were treated unfair and unjust while their white counter parts got conglerate wealth.
Let's remember that good music is good music, regardless of how old it is, who made it, and such other things. Any theft of this song here is unfortunate, but you should all realize that the pleasure your ears get from listening to Thorton or Presley doesn't depend on the trivial legality of the song. It depends on the performance. Thorton sang extremely well, with a lot of passion and expertise, and Elvis could at least hold his own. "Who stole from who" is a distraction from just enjoying them
You people are fighting battles for people that don't want no battles fought..... The music is here, the history is here, enjoy them both.....Enrich yourself....
I DON'T SEE WHY ANY OF THIS STUFF MATTERS!!! BOTH ARE VERY RESPECTABLE ARTISTS AND ARE LEGENDS. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MISSISSIPPI ARTIST, CHAD WESLEY BAND. THAT GUY HAS SOME SERIOUS POTENTIAL.
When do we sytop arguing and just enjoy this beautiful art? both artists have good renditions. This one is more soulful to me and i like the old juke joint feel but I love elvis too. Learn duality people. None of us own any of it. It is the creative talent of those who wrote it however they were inspired to do so. Just enjoy it.
Elvis didn't steal the song. Leiber and Stoller sold it to Elvis to make money. Yes, they sold it to Big Mama (who I love) many years previous, but that's what happened with music back then. Whoever wrote it owned and could do whatever they wanted with it. Yes, it's unfortunate they had to sell it to a white guy to make more money but that was the times. Look at The Brill Building! No one who sung the song mattered, it was all about the next hit.
@bibz93 whites published music written by Black songwriters. That way whites could keep ownership and rights to the songs while making TONS of money off of Black songs, inventions, talent. Same with hound dog. It even sounds like Black spirit. I don't believe for one second a white man wrote this.
White people are jealous. Its all exploiting & discrediting black people. Blacks never received proper recognition for their skills and they were ripped off monetary wise.
@takesun2 What you're saying did happen, but not with Hound Dog. Hound Dog was written by Leiber and Stoller and Johnny Otis produced the song. All three of them grew up listening to Blues and they sold the right to the song to Mama Thornton because they wanted to write music for Blacks. Once you sold the rights to a song to someone to perform, they could perform it however the hell they wanted and Otis told Mama Thornton to make it into whatever she wanted. That's how it worked back then.
@ThatKidKlutch taking Africans music, ideas, songs but putting your name on it is considered STEALING. Whites have done this soooo much, it is seriously sick and disturbing and its wrong. They are soo jealous of black people. Just give credit where credit is due.
@MissAblue6767 You got a witness, and I am so sorry this version was stolen from US! Not just black folks! I love this. But that is what happens when black people do something so soulful, it is like scratching that deep itch that is impossible to get to! We want it!!!!!
Lieber and Stoller wrote many Rock&Roll hits,including most of The Coasters hits,but I always thought that Big Mama Thornton wrote this one,but never got the credit for it.
"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now for more years than I know....I got it from them." - Elvis telling the Charlotte Observer on June 26, 1956. An excerpt from Blue Monday, Fats Domino and The Lost Dawn Of Rock 'N' Roll, by Rick Coleman.
@mrcjrowe Yes, I know about Leiber & Stoller....and I love Elvis' version also...I was merely stating a quote from that said book.....check out bibz93's comment about the matter....so true it is.....
@danimartins88 You're right, we Blacks don't need to hate Elvis for singing Black folks' songs. I mean, we Blacks sing white people's songs, too. You know? It aint like Elvis stole the song. He gave credit where credit's due.
@AliYourBrother I agree. Elvis was black, he was born in a black neighbourhood, he was brought up in a black neighbourhood,the music he was brought up on was black music, he went to a black church, the only difference being was that Elvis' skin was white.
@AliYourBrother "we Blacks sing white people's songs, too. You know? It aint like Elvis stole the song. He gave credit where credit's due." Yeah, it was just normal for a Billie Holiday to record a song that had been introduced by Fred Astaire. The people who think Elvis ripped people off are influenced by myths -- that Elvis was racist, that "covering" a song and paying the songwriter is somehow _immoral_, when it was industry practice, Billie or Elvis -- that are just myths.
@onenhero ....so much better than Elvis^^. The version that Elvis Presley made is a masterpiece of the R&R. Listen how he change a blues into something a lot different.
@asault i dont think anyone put a gun to elvis head and told him he had to sing another version of the same song. He had a choice and he could give credit to the original composer and pay ROYALTIES. Also have you ever heard of something called intellectual property rights do you know how many white persons have stolen the music of blacks in the past and reaped many profits from it. I dont care who sings over what. Credit must always be given to the individual who ORIGINALLY composed the work
In that case, big ups to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish songwriters working in Los Angeles!! Big Mama Thornton recorded it first, and that's MY favorite version, but Leiber and Stroller wrote it. Some people say BMT's version is just a blues, but it sounds pretty rock and roll to me. Lots of artists at the time used professional songwriters (and still do). Elvis didn't write any of his groundbreaking early material. Chuck Berry, on the other hand, wrote all his own stuff. Respect!
@DHigable Jackie Wilson : 'A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis'.
@seonfox naw,Elvis danced like he had soul,and this is n0t a dis,but white folks r n0t kn0wn 4 that type 0f soul, he was an anomaly,but he was still the man!!!!!! but in all fairness,the music business as a whole stole fr0m everyb0dy,but blacks g0t the bad end 0f the deal,cus 0f n0t kn0wing!!!!!!!!!!
@DHigable B.B. King :'I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent.
He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness'.
@DHigable B.B. King : 'I knew Elvis before he was popular. He used to come around and be around us a lot. I can remember once or twice when we met down at Club Handy on Beale Street. Elvis at heart was very religious and I think that throughout his career he couldn't help but let it come out and you can hear it'.
Little Richard : 'Oh I love Elvis! He was my baby. Elvis only took, Elvis only took his um, sense of dressin' and the bass, and the um, oh Elvis was alright I loved him.
@DHigable Al Green : 'Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us'.
Eddie Murphy : 'That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him ...
@seonfox You're the fuckin' moron, dude. The only thing Elvis did better than Black folks was steal. And as far as him doing it better...get your ears cleaned. You're listening to the real fuckin' deal right here, idiot. You white folks can only "wish" you could do something better than Black folks. We originated what you are listening to. Don't ever forget that. Your racist attitudes kept us down for long enough. It's our time now. Stupid ignoramus.
@DHigable Hound Dog was recorded by about 12 different artists by the time Presley recorded it. It Presley's version of Hound Dog isn't even a cover of Thorntons Blues classic. - it's a cover of Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys 1955 version- which Presley saw them do in Vegas. And white Hillbilly artists had just as much to contribute to Rock and Roll as Black RnB artists did-they called it Rockabily.
@rbound827 Finally someone who knows what he's talking about
I'm taking history of Rock class, your the only one right from all the comments I've read so far. But it wasn't that he covered it because he wanted to, the reason white's were covering black music is because the producers, recording companies saw that if a white person did the music, it'll make more money. Elvis was the first white to be able to sing and dance like a black from that time making him as famous as he is.
@seonfox You're the fuckin' moron, dude. The only thing Elvis did better than Black folks was steal. And as far as him doing it better...get your ears cleaned. You're listening to the real fuckin' deal right here, idiot. You white folks can only "wish" you could do something better than Black folks. We originated what you are listening to. Don't ever forget that. Your racist attitudes kept us down for long enough. It's our time now. Stupid ignoramus.
she is just eh altime greeeeeeaaatist. wow, this is even better than the old record dub i had of this... whew. it s the best the best. I been singing her praises and covering her version for years and yearss...love you, wille may, xxx, Joy
Big Mama Thornton rocked it, like she knew the meaning of the song from personal experience. Elvis's rendition is cool with the Freddie Bell re-write, but Big Mama singing the original lyrics has SOUL!
@srskypuppy thanks. That says it all. This was a wonderful soul/blues version of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's song. She had a big #1 hit on the R& B chart with it in 1953. After Leiber and Stoller shopped the song to Elvis he turned them down, However after little time had passed Elvis decided to make it into a hard driving Rock 'n" Roll number. The rest is history. Great song two great versions! L&B really cashed in on this one.
Guys it's just the times that was lived. Songs were written If a black artist recorded it. say the songs gets hot. Everybody likes the song black and white. The only way the whites would accept the music for their children to play or listen to was to have a let's say a cheap CORNEY remake made by anybody white. Many times black artists were cheated sometime not but the corney, stuff remakes were laughable. That sting a little to this day. All you have do is be up front and tell the truth.
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis lol, and you took that literally? hahahahah, you really are naive...
he was saying that in jest...since the king, or the government in america, was always holding him back from reaching his full potential...same with elvis, his pretty white face was holding chuck back from the fame and acclaim he actually deserved...i can't believe you actually took that quote that way...chuck was a known smart ass, and that quote is no different...he sure fooled you though
@banklikefrankwhite1 Berry isn't crying to the bank. He knows his place in Rock and Roll- and the thing that may have held Berry back was Berry himself.
@rbound827 could be, or it could be the knowledge of how easy it was for them to derail his career in it's prime...that could have held him back...
some bullshit story about taking a white girl across state lines? really? i'm pretty sure you'd have to look really hard to find a story like that...and that has happened to every black artist to gain that level of fame ever...whether it's death, or bogus stories, it ALWAYS happens..
@banklikefrankwhite1 You make a point..a BUT- Berry was already convicted for carjacking at the age of 17, and he tells the story that he did transport a minor across state lines to work in a club-and she was later arrested on prostitution charges, and he evaded taxes many times. Jerry Lee Lewis career was ruined because of his marriage to his young cousin, and Elvis' shows were filmed by the Police and Elvis was drafted at the peak of his career- so the authority tried to stop all of them
@rbound827 i agree with most of this..except two things...a) i don't care if he was arrested, we don't know what life was like for them then, and he was 17...the other..is i don't think jerry lee lewis career was ruined at all, he may have faced questions..but didn't he continue to conduct business as usual? not spending his time in jail?
@banklikefrankwhite1 Lewis was blacklisted from radio stations across the world, kicked out of England and went from making $10,000 a night to $500 a night . His career never regained the momentum that it was building, and he had to switch to Country music for the majority of his career. Elvis only got lucky that he wasn't questioned in his role for dating an underage girl as well. But as Berry says " the only difference between him and Elvis was that Elvis had a much better manager"
@rbound827 oh...i should have known that about lewis..but either way, thank you for the information (and not being a douche about it) i was always curious as to how elvis wasn't vilified for his cradle robbing..but...now i know lol
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis dude, your fan-ship is bordering on obsession...why do you care? you can justify it all you want...here in america, where he's from, where we are from...14 is too young for a 24 year old..no matter how much you love elvis ...that's the real fact sir...
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis are you kidding weirdo? i knew it was legal there, it doesn't make it right
and if that's what you feel is your calling in life, i feel really bad for you. I'm not black, and certainly not a fool compared to you. again, you can defend it all you want...the fact remains, he was 24, she was 14
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis Heheh, I love the fact you use the term "racist darkies" like it makes any sense. Elvis was into Beastiality too according to one of the biographies I read.
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis A branding by you means less than fuck all, but it was a copy of FHM from around 2001, maybe 2002. It was talking about a lot of his funny moods and personality swings before his death, including the whole shooting the car and that sort of jazz.
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis Branding by you means nothing. I'm just reading an interesting article about how Elvis was bisexual, maybe you would have had a chance with him if he was still alive? Google Elvis was gay, very interesting.
Jerry, we'll miss you but as long as we are hearing your songs, you are still here maestro. And yes, Elvis did imitate the early black rock and rollers/r and b'ers (Otis Blackwell in particular comes to mind) but hey, he too gave a lot to music. And Mama Thornton, you brought Lieber/Stoller's Hound Dog to life. Thank you all for the gift.
And folks here and there can argue all they want about black and white and the merits of Elvis Presley. Truth of the matter is, Whoever 'made it' made it. And whoever didn't, didn't. And Elvis 'made it.' Big time. (And if he never had to write a song to get there, more power to him.)
Big Mama is fantastic. But never would have heard this song had Elvis Presley not recorded it...and Elvis himself was certainly no stranger to the blues and boogie woogie. No stranger at all. If you want to talk Pat Boone--well, that's another story. Thank you JERRY LEIBER (Leiber & Stoller).
Written in 1952, Hound Dog became a Hit for Big Mama Thornton in 1953. The song was written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stroller. Elvis' version came out with the lyrics re-worked & was a bigger hit. Sadly, BIG MAMA passed away on July 25, 1984. JERRY LEIBER passed away (today), August 22 2011. Elvis didn't steal anyones' songs.. Raised in Mississippi & Memphis TN, he heard all kinds of blues music. He liked it & in his recording career, recorded songs he had enjoyed as a young adult..
Elvis stole from african american culture to make money for him and his producers and those great genuine black artists died in destitution... elvis prefigured the industrialisation of music, he didn't write anything, he didn't play anything (his guitar playing is poor), he stole from Little Richard, etc..
@fela319 Elvis grew up in the south so he was around a lot of country, but as a teen he would go to the jute bars and listen to the black musicians play. They were the soul and the source of his music. A lot of people don't know this.
@toysrusbaby You should really read up on Leiber & Stoller. Yes, they were white, but they were both indebted to and contributed many famous R&B songs. The musical play, Smokey Joe's Cafe, explores their most well-known tunes.
This version is about a million times better than the Elvis version. All Elvis does is keep repeating the chorus over and over. It has no substance at all.
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis further proof that "academics" is short for "pretentious, pompous assholes who have no real life experience" you may love elvis, but there is no denying he ummmm we'll just say borrowed heavily from black artists...the companies had to put a white face on it so more white people would buy it..
no i'm not black so, none of tired 'did whitey steal your lunch money" or any other nonsense is necessary...it's just the facts...sorry you can't see it
@banklikefrankwhite1 The reason he borrowed from many black artists was because he, and many of the Rockabilly artists grew up in the South listening to both Black and White music. Elvis started out as a Rockabilly artist-a mixture of Country and Blues. Both black and white artists at the time recorded each others material to sell to there own "market" Presley himself said many times the influence of black culture
@rbound827 i know man...i guess my only problem is that he got ALL the credit, while the black ones got NONE of the credit, until years later, when they were almost too old to enjoy it..
i know they made some money etc....but if you were really great, wouldn't you like the respect more than the money? i know most men will...in general the ones that say otherwise are the type that care about money, because they don't have any, and haven't put in work....just my thoughts
@banklikefrankwhite1 Thats the cause of racism, not the fault of Presley or the white artists that appreciated the music and felt it. Now , someone like Pat Boone or Georgia Gibbs you have a point. Their job was to cover RnB songs and clean them up for the Pop Charts
@rbound827 i know..i kind of admitted as much with the "i know man, i guess my only problem......"
i know that it's not elvis' fault, and it's unfair to not like him for that..i acknowledged that..i just wish the other god fathers of music got the same credit
so...by that same arguement i can condem every black dj starting in the mid 1970's that scratched a white artists lp? and never paid such artist one penny in copyrights? or...can i accuse every black man that has ever played a guitar...since it was the chinese that invented it?
people like you are a joke. music would be fucking boring without influences. by the way...who is your favorite singer? lets see who influenced he or she...
@heathbradford excuse me, what now? first, an italian invented the guitar, second, what is your angle here?
what you are saying is EXACTLY what i have said...so i'm not really sure why you replied to me
he borrowed...that's what he did...i didn't say he stole..but that guy was trying to paint him as some original artist that made everything up himself....which is not true
i don't have a favorite singer...but i love bob dylan, and there is no question that he "borrowed" from others
@heathbradford and others borrowed from him...my only point is that elvis took black culture, and used it himself to get rich...that's fine...but he didn't invent the shit, which is what the guy was implying
and hell no i don't think scratching is stealing, it's called using what's available...that's more how it should be
in elvis' days, musicians gave away songs, and shared songs for others to do...it was a community...now it's the opposite..it's all "get that money"
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis and revolutionary isn't really a compliment to elvis...it just says it's the song that finally got the masses of white people to buy the much superior black music...because it had a white face on it...
how many songs did elvis actually write? in his career. how many have his name on it? i am curious, serious question, not trying to start a stupid fight with someone who obviously can't appreciate anyone but their one favorite artist
you'll ask elvis who? lol whatever. and people think this version is "better" because it makes sense. elvis' version is a nonsense song that makes no sense whatever.
I still can't understand the people who says that "Hound Dog" is a silly song! Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton made a damn great Blues of it, and after Elvis Presley a fabulous Rock'n'Roll song! And look! It is still keeping us, young generations, more than a half of century later!!! :)
@aeedeeaeeable Yeh, he matched what a Parrot could do with a Bird Brain. PARROT. Is that why he died on the Dung dump? ELVIS, ANOTHER WORD FOR EVILS. notice the same letters. coincidence?
Takes like 3 seconds to tell it's going to be bad ass.
nesnejls 1 day ago
elvis Stole the songs people, he gave no credit to blacks because it was not popular with his white audience. He stole all he could and, no one got credit but elvis. most of the rock and roll inventors lost a lot of money due to elvis.
hezziejanel 1 day ago
elvis stole this song he gave no credit to black people
igetsomepussy187 5 days ago
@igetsomepussy187 Black Memphis DJ Rufus Thomas 'stole' the song before Elvis was even famous by bring out a song called 'Bear Cat' same tune, different title so why do you say that Elvis 'stole' the song? How can you say Elvis never gave credit to black people when its a fact he did?
Seanryan2001 4 days ago
Thornton recorded this in 1952, Elvis in 1956.
mobettabass1 1 week ago
This has become one of my favorite guitar songs. I did some research and the player is a guy named Pete Lewis, from the Johnny Otis Band; you can find an article about him by searching pete guitar lewis on google. After the recent passing of Johnny Otis, I heard on the radio that Mr. Otis himself is the drummer on this song.
OnTheWatch 1 week ago
This performance is the aural definition of soul!
saxwalker 1 week ago 2
This puts me into the setting where I a driving in my old pick up in the deep south passing by the swamps and stores.
michellekwan483 2 weeks ago
This is American Music.
benarobinson 2 weeks ago
this song was written and composed by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two white men
just thought I'd mention that for those blacks saying that Elvis stole this from a black woman
BlueLeopard200 3 weeks ago
Take it home Big Momma!
ifucould4me 4 weeks ago
I have to say that being an Afro Latino and just learning the history of American music, I am left to saying "African Americans are GENIUSES" and their history music wise is very similar to ours in Latin American our history and the greatness we represent have always been stolen, what a shame and to this day no body give us any credit for nothing
kotan80 1 month ago 2
"Thank God things are little different now," Intelligent black musician now a days are controlling their own destiny and finances. Am a actor,and singer is about ready to plunge into the music world. There is still a lot of racism out there. Our ancestor were treated unfair and unjust while their white counter parts got conglerate wealth.
2charlesjr 1 month ago
Let's remember that good music is good music, regardless of how old it is, who made it, and such other things. Any theft of this song here is unfortunate, but you should all realize that the pleasure your ears get from listening to Thorton or Presley doesn't depend on the trivial legality of the song. It depends on the performance. Thorton sang extremely well, with a lot of passion and expertise, and Elvis could at least hold his own. "Who stole from who" is a distraction from just enjoying them
IpCrackle 1 month ago
damn and they stealing blues
TheEightpalm 1 month ago
Nothing compares with Big Mama's version.
lucas07700 1 month ago 4
You people are fighting battles for people that don't want no battles fought..... The music is here, the history is here, enjoy them both.....Enrich yourself....
dannysfreind 1 month ago 4
@MissAblue6767 you got another witness!
takesun2 1 month ago
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runxz1 1 month ago
@MissAblue6767 If you want to make that claim, he would have "stole" it from Freddie Bell.
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 month ago
coons...
cheyennesimpson96 1 month ago
This is the superior version. It just is, maaan.
anthonyaranda 1 month ago
I DON'T SEE WHY ANY OF THIS STUFF MATTERS!!! BOTH ARE VERY RESPECTABLE ARTISTS AND ARE LEGENDS. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MISSISSIPPI ARTIST, CHAD WESLEY BAND. THAT GUY HAS SOME SERIOUS POTENTIAL.
35BluesMan 1 month ago
Ruff!
1xicano 1 month ago
thank you my friend or sister
arabionaute 1 month ago
there.would.be.no.elvis.if.it.wasn't.for.Big.MaMa.Thornton!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kryptonian541 2 months ago 2
When do we sytop arguing and just enjoy this beautiful art? both artists have good renditions. This one is more soulful to me and i like the old juke joint feel but I love elvis too. Learn duality people. None of us own any of it. It is the creative talent of those who wrote it however they were inspired to do so. Just enjoy it.
TranscendentLove615 2 months ago
Elvis didn't steal the song. Leiber and Stoller sold it to Elvis to make money. Yes, they sold it to Big Mama (who I love) many years previous, but that's what happened with music back then. Whoever wrote it owned and could do whatever they wanted with it. Yes, it's unfortunate they had to sell it to a white guy to make more money but that was the times. Look at The Brill Building! No one who sung the song mattered, it was all about the next hit.
bibz93 2 months ago 2
@bibz93 whites published music written by Black songwriters. That way whites could keep ownership and rights to the songs while making TONS of money off of Black songs, inventions, talent. Same with hound dog. It even sounds like Black spirit. I don't believe for one second a white man wrote this.
White people are jealous. Its all exploiting & discrediting black people. Blacks never received proper recognition for their skills and they were ripped off monetary wise.
Whites are exposed.
takesun2 1 month ago 2
@takesun2 What you're saying did happen, but not with Hound Dog. Hound Dog was written by Leiber and Stoller and Johnny Otis produced the song. All three of them grew up listening to Blues and they sold the right to the song to Mama Thornton because they wanted to write music for Blacks. Once you sold the rights to a song to someone to perform, they could perform it however the hell they wanted and Otis told Mama Thornton to make it into whatever she wanted. That's how it worked back then.
bibz93 1 month ago
@takesun2 poor boy, white stole your lunch money AGAIN!
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 1 month ago
@takesun2 .Why don't you blame Jews, who are the real culprits of exploiting the black man?
MrMojoincc 1 month ago
@MrMojoincc Fighting racism with racism doesn't work, jackass.
hiimhank 5 days ago
this is just absurdly good
animalmother4 2 months ago
before we get all racially superior an all, lets remember that this song was written by two white dudes.....
ThatKidKlutch 2 months ago
@ThatKidKlutch Yes white guys wrote the song but they got their style and talent from hanging around blacks.
BLACKNBIG1 2 months ago
@ThatKidKlutch taking Africans music, ideas, songs but putting your name on it is considered STEALING. Whites have done this soooo much, it is seriously sick and disturbing and its wrong. They are soo jealous of black people. Just give credit where credit is due.
tackfornow4 1 month ago
@tackfornow4 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 month ago
You see how Caucasians are they steal everything
mscanela27 2 months ago 5
@mscanela27 its true. They steal from everyone, especially Africans.
tackfornow4 1 month ago
@MissAblue6767 You got a witness, and I am so sorry this version was stolen from US! Not just black folks! I love this. But that is what happens when black people do something so soulful, it is like scratching that deep itch that is impossible to get to! We want it!!!!!
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REBELANGELISM 2 months ago
Man this is great!
SoundWavesSurfer 2 months ago
@MissAblue6767 hell yes you have me as a witness everyone thinks he made this classic but as usual they were wrong!!!!
dal4018 2 months ago
Elvis version much better, superb sound and changed the whole feel of it from just another blues song.
goshmerlin 2 months ago
This is a cool version.
DontmesswiththeUSA 2 months ago
Thing is, Elvis's version is pretty dam good.
Mike81262 2 months ago 4
Sandra Dee Lawson.
sandralawson18 2 months ago
Lieber and Stoller wrote many Rock&Roll hits,including most of The Coasters hits,but I always thought that Big Mama Thornton wrote this one,but never got the credit for it.
Davids508 2 months ago
"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now for more years than I know....I got it from them." - Elvis telling the Charlotte Observer on June 26, 1956. An excerpt from Blue Monday, Fats Domino and The Lost Dawn Of Rock 'N' Roll, by Rick Coleman.
indoman71 3 months ago 38
@indoman71 Two white men wrote this song, and Elvis Presley sang it better , but because Elvis was white people want to deny it.
mrcjrowe 2 months ago
@mrcjrowe Yes, I know about Leiber & Stoller....and I love Elvis' version also...I was merely stating a quote from that said book.....check out bibz93's comment about the matter....so true it is.....
indoman71 2 months ago
@indoman71 lol... yeah, I agree
mrcjrowe 1 month ago
just bc this version is brilliant doesnt mean u all need to hate Elvis for gods sake!
danimartins88 3 months ago 18
@danimartins88 Thank you yes Elvis used a lot of black songs but he still was a great artist. Along with other great artists. Including this woman.
Corleone2239 2 months ago
@Corleone2239 Yes he was a top artist but he wasn't the driving force behind the success of this musical genre.
dal4018 2 months ago
@danimartins88 You're right, we Blacks don't need to hate Elvis for singing Black folks' songs. I mean, we Blacks sing white people's songs, too. You know? It aint like Elvis stole the song. He gave credit where credit's due.
AliYourBrother 1 week ago
@AliYourBrother I agree. Elvis was black, he was born in a black neighbourhood, he was brought up in a black neighbourhood,the music he was brought up on was black music, he went to a black church, the only difference being was that Elvis' skin was white.
Seanryan2001 4 days ago
@AliYourBrother "we Blacks sing white people's songs, too. You know? It aint like Elvis stole the song. He gave credit where credit's due." Yeah, it was just normal for a Billie Holiday to record a song that had been introduced by Fred Astaire. The people who think Elvis ripped people off are influenced by myths -- that Elvis was racist, that "covering" a song and paying the songwriter is somehow _immoral_, when it was industry practice, Billie or Elvis -- that are just myths.
JosephNScott1 1 day ago in playlist First Rock and Roll Songs
That's how you should sing it
Kenterol 3 months ago 2
First time I heard Big Mama was on The Chris Isaak Show...heard it playing in the background and was hooked!!!
Mortthemoose 3 months ago
The best version ever for sure.
buddyeagle 3 months ago
she is the mother of them all RIP but always in our souls
merlinshat007 3 months ago
She sounds so much better than Elvis cover version!!
onenhero 3 months ago
@onenhero ....so much better than Elvis^^. The version that Elvis Presley made is a masterpiece of the R&R. Listen how he change a blues into something a lot different.
PrettyBoyBlues 3 months ago
@asault i dont think anyone put a gun to elvis head and told him he had to sing another version of the same song. He had a choice and he could give credit to the original composer and pay ROYALTIES. Also have you ever heard of something called intellectual property rights do you know how many white persons have stolen the music of blacks in the past and reaped many profits from it. I dont care who sings over what. Credit must always be given to the individual who ORIGINALLY composed the work
triniprincess88 3 months ago 2
@triniprincess88 And it appears some of the worst are Led Zepplin!!
davidoffon 3 months ago
In that case, big ups to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish songwriters working in Los Angeles!! Big Mama Thornton recorded it first, and that's MY favorite version, but Leiber and Stroller wrote it. Some people say BMT's version is just a blues, but it sounds pretty rock and roll to me. Lots of artists at the time used professional songwriters (and still do). Elvis didn't write any of his groundbreaking early material. Chuck Berry, on the other hand, wrote all his own stuff. Respect!
klachopis 3 months ago
No...Leiber and Stoller are the original songwiters and were the producers on this original version...
bettyfelon1 4 months ago in playlist Quality Remakes
Actually, Big Mama Thornton is singing her own song. Hound Dog was written by Big Mama Thornton and "stolen" by Lieber & Stoller.
EBridgeman 4 months ago
I agree..after hearing her, Who the hell is Elvis?????
vabear2009 4 months ago 3
@DHigable Jackie Wilson : 'A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis'.
seonfox 4 months ago
@seonfox naw,Elvis danced like he had soul,and this is n0t a dis,but white folks r n0t kn0wn 4 that type 0f soul, he was an anomaly,but he was still the man!!!!!! but in all fairness,the music business as a whole stole fr0m everyb0dy,but blacks g0t the bad end 0f the deal,cus 0f n0t kn0wing!!!!!!!!!!
MrMaufree 4 months ago
@seniors keep dreaming! Lol. He stole and imitated Black music, like all the rest of whites did!
tackfornow4 1 month ago
@DHigable B.B. King :'I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent.
He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness'.
seonfox 4 months ago
@DHigable B.B. King : 'I knew Elvis before he was popular. He used to come around and be around us a lot. I can remember once or twice when we met down at Club Handy on Beale Street. Elvis at heart was very religious and I think that throughout his career he couldn't help but let it come out and you can hear it'.
Little Richard : 'Oh I love Elvis! He was my baby. Elvis only took, Elvis only took his um, sense of dressin' and the bass, and the um, oh Elvis was alright I loved him.
seonfox 4 months ago
@DHigable Al Green : 'Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us'.
Eddie Murphy : 'That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him ...
seonfox 4 months ago
if you like this , liston to big mabelle's, country man . these ladys were great shouters
aleynabubbles 4 months ago
I grew up on Elvis. He's the daddy. But for this song, she's doing it better.
nesnejls 4 months ago
Umm, are black people mad that Elvis sang this song and did it better? WTF? Get over it, morons.
seonfox 4 months ago
@seonfox You're the fuckin' moron, dude. The only thing Elvis did better than Black folks was steal. And as far as him doing it better...get your ears cleaned. You're listening to the real fuckin' deal right here, idiot. You white folks can only "wish" you could do something better than Black folks. We originated what you are listening to. Don't ever forget that. Your racist attitudes kept us down for long enough. It's our time now. Stupid ignoramus.
DHigable 4 months ago
@DHigable Hound Dog was recorded by about 12 different artists by the time Presley recorded it. It Presley's version of Hound Dog isn't even a cover of Thorntons Blues classic. - it's a cover of Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys 1955 version- which Presley saw them do in Vegas. And white Hillbilly artists had just as much to contribute to Rock and Roll as Black RnB artists did-they called it Rockabily.
rbound827 4 months ago 7
@rbound827 Finally someone who knows what he's talking about
I'm taking history of Rock class, your the only one right from all the comments I've read so far. But it wasn't that he covered it because he wanted to, the reason white's were covering black music is because the producers, recording companies saw that if a white person did the music, it'll make more money. Elvis was the first white to be able to sing and dance like a black from that time making him as famous as he is.
asault 3 months ago
@asault Elvis was not white!
davidoffon 3 months ago
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@seonfox You're the fuckin' moron, dude. The only thing Elvis did better than Black folks was steal. And as far as him doing it better...get your ears cleaned. You're listening to the real fuckin' deal right here, idiot. You white folks can only "wish" you could do something better than Black folks. We originated what you are listening to. Don't ever forget that. Your racist attitudes kept us down for long enough. It's our time now. Stupid ignoramus.
DHigable 4 months ago
@SUitable Keep speaking the truth! You are 100 percent right!
tackfornow4 1 month ago
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seonfox 4 months ago
LEARN TO SING, JUSTIN. AND OTHERS.
hootowlholler 4 months ago
13 dislikes...? 13 DUMB DOGS....
TonyChase 4 months ago
No thats singing!
trucker765 4 months ago
I am an old school blues loving woman--this is my absolute favorite next to Smoke Stack Lightning by Howling Wolf!
Phoenix191018 4 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 in those days alot of the music didnt share their songs they were stealing the songs....
TheCJJZ123 4 months ago
Sing Big Momma! Sing!
Flytownn 4 months ago
Who the F$CK is elvis !
4IcyHot 4 months ago 79
@4IcyHot THE JOKE WHO STOLE FROM THE REAL STARS,THATS WHO. RIGHT ON BRO!
deeniemarie7 4 months ago
@4IcyHot He did the gay version, I believe.
dantean 3 months ago in playlist Blues Set List
@4IcyHot hahahahahahahaha!
celena33212 2 months ago
@4IcyHot wtf this version of this song is turd my ears are melting coz its fucking shite ELVIS IS WAY BETTER SFU
yoghed45 1 month ago
@4IcyHot Trust!
TyFnMac 1 month ago
I think Etta James was influenced a great deal by Big Mama
bkatayab 4 months ago
she had me at 0:02
roxieheart100 5 months ago
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addeex1 5 months ago
she is just eh altime greeeeeeaaatist. wow, this is even better than the old record dub i had of this... whew. it s the best the best. I been singing her praises and covering her version for years and yearss...love you, wille may, xxx, Joy
joysblues 5 months ago
Big Mama Thornton rocked it, like she knew the meaning of the song from personal experience. Elvis's rendition is cool with the Freddie Bell re-write, but Big Mama singing the original lyrics has SOUL!
srskypuppy 5 months ago
@srskypuppy thanks. That says it all. This was a wonderful soul/blues version of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's song. She had a big #1 hit on the R& B chart with it in 1953. After Leiber and Stoller shopped the song to Elvis he turned them down, However after little time had passed Elvis decided to make it into a hard driving Rock 'n" Roll number. The rest is history. Great song two great versions! L&B really cashed in on this one.
sonnstarr 5 months ago
big mama sings the definitive version of hound dog for all else to use as a bench mark....
scatsmfc1 5 months ago
Heard this today on the radio for the first time and fell in love. Consider the Elvis version forgotten!
ButtonMuncher 5 months ago
ALL THEM COUSIN HUMPING LYING DIRTY DOG STOLE SONGS,STYLE, AND MUSIC ECT.
CALISLIM760 5 months ago
Guys it's just the times that was lived. Songs were written If a black artist recorded it. say the songs gets hot. Everybody likes the song black and white. The only way the whites would accept the music for their children to play or listen to was to have a let's say a cheap CORNEY remake made by anybody white. Many times black artists were cheated sometime not but the corney, stuff remakes were laughable. That sting a little to this day. All you have do is be up front and tell the truth.
missdmisty 5 months ago
@missdmisty right on
hunkydoryize1 5 months ago
RIP Jerry Lieber passes away at 78. Great song writer in the 50s
ben33603 5 months ago
Lieber and Stoller wrote this song for Big Mama Thornton and actually loathed Elvis's rendition of it.
bervy8 5 months ago
@bervy8 but they loved their royalty cheques
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis oh...and the king of rock n roll is either chuck or louis...not elvis
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 Chuck Berry "They named Elvis right when they named him King"
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis lol, and you took that literally? hahahahah, you really are naive...
he was saying that in jest...since the king, or the government in america, was always holding him back from reaching his full potential...same with elvis, his pretty white face was holding chuck back from the fame and acclaim he actually deserved...i can't believe you actually took that quote that way...chuck was a known smart ass, and that quote is no different...he sure fooled you though
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 Berry isn't crying to the bank. He knows his place in Rock and Roll- and the thing that may have held Berry back was Berry himself.
rbound827 5 months ago
@rbound827 could be, or it could be the knowledge of how easy it was for them to derail his career in it's prime...that could have held him back...
some bullshit story about taking a white girl across state lines? really? i'm pretty sure you'd have to look really hard to find a story like that...and that has happened to every black artist to gain that level of fame ever...whether it's death, or bogus stories, it ALWAYS happens..
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 You make a point..a BUT- Berry was already convicted for carjacking at the age of 17, and he tells the story that he did transport a minor across state lines to work in a club-and she was later arrested on prostitution charges, and he evaded taxes many times. Jerry Lee Lewis career was ruined because of his marriage to his young cousin, and Elvis' shows were filmed by the Police and Elvis was drafted at the peak of his career- so the authority tried to stop all of them
rbound827 5 months ago
@rbound827 i agree with most of this..except two things...a) i don't care if he was arrested, we don't know what life was like for them then, and he was 17...the other..is i don't think jerry lee lewis career was ruined at all, he may have faced questions..but didn't he continue to conduct business as usual? not spending his time in jail?
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 Lewis was blacklisted from radio stations across the world, kicked out of England and went from making $10,000 a night to $500 a night . His career never regained the momentum that it was building, and he had to switch to Country music for the majority of his career. Elvis only got lucky that he wasn't questioned in his role for dating an underage girl as well. But as Berry says " the only difference between him and Elvis was that Elvis had a much better manager"
rbound827 5 months ago
@rbound827 oh...i should have known that about lewis..but either way, thank you for the information (and not being a douche about it) i was always curious as to how elvis wasn't vilified for his cradle robbing..but...now i know lol
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 Real facts, Elvis met Cilla in Germany when she was nearly 15, the legal age in Germany at the time was 14.
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis dude, your fan-ship is bordering on obsession...why do you care? you can justify it all you want...here in america, where he's from, where we are from...14 is too young for a 24 year old..no matter how much you love elvis ...that's the real fact sir...
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 I am here to educate racist darkies and fools.
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis are you kidding weirdo? i knew it was legal there, it doesn't make it right
and if that's what you feel is your calling in life, i feel really bad for you. I'm not black, and certainly not a fool compared to you. again, you can defend it all you want...the fact remains, he was 24, she was 14
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis Heheh, I love the fact you use the term "racist darkies" like it makes any sense. Elvis was into Beastiality too according to one of the biographies I read.
HonestJack 5 months ago
@HonestJack name the book or be branded a fool and a liar
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis A branding by you means less than fuck all, but it was a copy of FHM from around 2001, maybe 2002. It was talking about a lot of his funny moods and personality swings before his death, including the whole shooting the car and that sort of jazz.
HonestJack 5 months ago
@HonestJack No, it was not, ergo you are branded an idiot and fool.
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis Branding by you means nothing. I'm just reading an interesting article about how Elvis was bisexual, maybe you would have had a chance with him if he was still alive? Google Elvis was gay, very interesting.
HonestJack 5 months ago
@HonestJack You have been branded a fool by someone who met Elvis a number of times a DD and PhD and an author of 34 published books.
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 I have known Chuck Berry since 1964, he loves Elvis.
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
R.I.P Mr Leiber you are & will also be missed by all lovers of great music
jacksons1950 5 months ago 16
RIP Big Mama and Jerry Leiber.
Savvynlady 5 months ago
@Savvynlady amen to that.
ralphcraddock 5 months ago
R.I.P. Jerry Lieber
simbamj1985 5 months ago
Jerry, we'll miss you but as long as we are hearing your songs, you are still here maestro. And yes, Elvis did imitate the early black rock and rollers/r and b'ers (Otis Blackwell in particular comes to mind) but hey, he too gave a lot to music. And Mama Thornton, you brought Lieber/Stoller's Hound Dog to life. Thank you all for the gift.
wotcher01 5 months ago
In all respect, Jerry will be missed. His music lives in. Thank you kind sir.
ScottFly1724 5 months ago
Jerry Leiber RIP
YEYOGS61 5 months ago
And folks here and there can argue all they want about black and white and the merits of Elvis Presley. Truth of the matter is, Whoever 'made it' made it. And whoever didn't, didn't. And Elvis 'made it.' Big time. (And if he never had to write a song to get there, more power to him.)
mieleD 5 months ago
Big Mama is fantastic. But never would have heard this song had Elvis Presley not recorded it...and Elvis himself was certainly no stranger to the blues and boogie woogie. No stranger at all. If you want to talk Pat Boone--well, that's another story. Thank you JERRY LEIBER (Leiber & Stoller).
mieleD 5 months ago
@mieleD You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. Big Mama Thornton recorded this song 4 years before Elvis. Go comment on Yahoo.
bumfug1 5 months ago
Written in 1952, Hound Dog became a Hit for Big Mama Thornton in 1953. The song was written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stroller. Elvis' version came out with the lyrics re-worked & was a bigger hit. Sadly, BIG MAMA passed away on July 25, 1984. JERRY LEIBER passed away (today), August 22 2011. Elvis didn't steal anyones' songs.. Raised in Mississippi & Memphis TN, he heard all kinds of blues music. He liked it & in his recording career, recorded songs he had enjoyed as a young adult..
DallasPix 5 months ago
Elvis stole from african american culture to make money for him and his producers and those great genuine black artists died in destitution... elvis prefigured the industrialisation of music, he didn't write anything, he didn't play anything (his guitar playing is poor), he stole from Little Richard, etc..
fela319 5 months ago
@fela319 Elvis grew up in the south so he was around a lot of country, but as a teen he would go to the jute bars and listen to the black musicians play. They were the soul and the source of his music. A lot of people don't know this.
Corleone2239 5 months ago
@fela319 Poor boy did whitie steal your lunch money again?
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@fela319
Bullshit. You know fuck all.
raggedclown 5 months ago
@fela319 Listen to the intro to "Lucille" and then "Rocket 88". Richard lifted it almost note for note. Do you want to say he stole it?
partymonsterri 5 months ago
@toysrusbaby You should really read up on Leiber & Stoller. Yes, they were white, but they were both indebted to and contributed many famous R&B songs. The musical play, Smokey Joe's Cafe, explores their most well-known tunes.
valsadie 5 months ago
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rarezombie 5 months ago
This version is about a million times better than the Elvis version. All Elvis does is keep repeating the chorus over and over. It has no substance at all.
jscott1000 5 months ago
@jscott1000 A group of academics in 2000 said Elvis' version was the most revolutionary song on the century
TheOnlyOneKingElvis 5 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis further proof that "academics" is short for "pretentious, pompous assholes who have no real life experience" you may love elvis, but there is no denying he ummmm we'll just say borrowed heavily from black artists...the companies had to put a white face on it so more white people would buy it..
no i'm not black so, none of tired 'did whitey steal your lunch money" or any other nonsense is necessary...it's just the facts...sorry you can't see it
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 The reason he borrowed from many black artists was because he, and many of the Rockabilly artists grew up in the South listening to both Black and White music. Elvis started out as a Rockabilly artist-a mixture of Country and Blues. Both black and white artists at the time recorded each others material to sell to there own "market" Presley himself said many times the influence of black culture
rbound827 5 months ago
@rbound827 i know man...i guess my only problem is that he got ALL the credit, while the black ones got NONE of the credit, until years later, when they were almost too old to enjoy it..
i know they made some money etc....but if you were really great, wouldn't you like the respect more than the money? i know most men will...in general the ones that say otherwise are the type that care about money, because they don't have any, and haven't put in work....just my thoughts
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 Thats the cause of racism, not the fault of Presley or the white artists that appreciated the music and felt it. Now , someone like Pat Boone or Georgia Gibbs you have a point. Their job was to cover RnB songs and clean them up for the Pop Charts
rbound827 5 months ago
@rbound827 i know..i kind of admitted as much with the "i know man, i guess my only problem......"
i know that it's not elvis' fault, and it's unfair to not like him for that..i acknowledged that..i just wish the other god fathers of music got the same credit
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
@banklikefrankwhite1 "borrowed"?
so...by that same arguement i can condem every black dj starting in the mid 1970's that scratched a white artists lp? and never paid such artist one penny in copyrights? or...can i accuse every black man that has ever played a guitar...since it was the chinese that invented it?
people like you are a joke. music would be fucking boring without influences. by the way...who is your favorite singer? lets see who influenced he or she...
stupidity is rampant
heathbradford 4 months ago
@heathbradford excuse me, what now? first, an italian invented the guitar, second, what is your angle here?
what you are saying is EXACTLY what i have said...so i'm not really sure why you replied to me
he borrowed...that's what he did...i didn't say he stole..but that guy was trying to paint him as some original artist that made everything up himself....which is not true
i don't have a favorite singer...but i love bob dylan, and there is no question that he "borrowed" from others
and others
banklikefrankwhite1 4 months ago
@heathbradford and others borrowed from him...my only point is that elvis took black culture, and used it himself to get rich...that's fine...but he didn't invent the shit, which is what the guy was implying
and hell no i don't think scratching is stealing, it's called using what's available...that's more how it should be
in elvis' days, musicians gave away songs, and shared songs for others to do...it was a community...now it's the opposite..it's all "get that money"
banklikefrankwhite1 4 months ago
@TheOnlyOneKingElvis and revolutionary isn't really a compliment to elvis...it just says it's the song that finally got the masses of white people to buy the much superior black music...because it had a white face on it...
how many songs did elvis actually write? in his career. how many have his name on it? i am curious, serious question, not trying to start a stupid fight with someone who obviously can't appreciate anyone but their one favorite artist
banklikefrankwhite1 5 months ago
you'll ask elvis who? lol whatever. and people think this version is "better" because it makes sense. elvis' version is a nonsense song that makes no sense whatever.
mudnerd 5 months ago 2
i love it!
bigj4lj 5 months ago
Ain't everyman a hound dog!!!
MsPaulina67 6 months ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: once you hear the original/REAL version by Big Moma, you'll ask "Elvis, who?"
Cagedguitarist401 6 months ago 2
I still can't understand the people who says that "Hound Dog" is a silly song! Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton made a damn great Blues of it, and after Elvis Presley a fabulous Rock'n'Roll song! And look! It is still keeping us, young generations, more than a half of century later!!! :)
Mithra3712 6 months ago 2
Without big mama thornton there would be no Elvis !!!!
ocb1500 6 months ago 3
A "Hound Dog" is a cheap, undesirable guy that doesn't like alotta woman
Big Mama figured that if a little is good, then alot is simply alot more good
Chuichupachichi 6 months ago
1952
batboymovie 6 months ago
Elvis is THE most overrated "musician" in the history of the world.
ryanmshepard92 6 months ago 3
@ryanmshepard92 Elvis was one of the greatest performers the world ever produced. Get used to it.
aeedeeaeeable 6 months ago
@aeedeeaeeable Yeh, he matched what a Parrot could do with a Bird Brain. PARROT. Is that why he died on the Dung dump? ELVIS, ANOTHER WORD FOR EVILS. notice the same letters. coincidence?
CalypieAndroid 6 months ago
I need me a D, so I can get D.....BIG MAMA.
TheSoulsister1 7 months ago
Elvis sucks!
MrBluesmind 7 months ago 2