Freddie Bell and The Bellboys - Hound Dog
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Uploaded by justicejayant on Mar 31, 2009
The original lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were judged a little too raunchy for a white audience. It was in Las Vegas that Elvis Presley heard and saw the group perform this version of "Hound Dog", in April 1956. Presley was impressed and asked Bell if he would mind if he (Elvis) recorded the song himself. Bell told him to go ahead and the rest is history, as they say. In May 1956, two months before Presley, Bell rerecorded the song for Mercury, but they sat on it and it only appeared later hidden away on Bell's album "Rock & Roll ... All Flavors".
The whole text is taken from:-
http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/freddie_bell.htm
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2 years ago 11
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Big Mama's best version is her 1954 recording on Peacock Records
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Surprisingly Elvis did not get this tune from hearing Big Mama Thornton.
He came across this tune when he was in Las Vegas in 1956 and encountered a lounge act called Freddy Bell and the Bellboys doing it at the Sahara. It would be 3 months later that he would record this song and release it. So in his mind he did not get it from a black artist but a bunch of white guys in Las Vegas.
Source: Texas Musicians Museum
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Where IS the original version, then? A link or pointer . . .
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R.I.P. Uncle Freddy.
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This is actually not the original version by Freddie Bell... the original single is in a different key and after the intro chorus someone yells "arf arf arf"... fyi
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Freddy and the Bellboys are to Elvis as Freddy and the Dreamers are to the Beatles. And as for Big Mama, there just aint no comparison. Big Mama rocks!!!
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@Mithra3712 Big Mama Thornton, three years before Elvis.
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Who sung "Hound Dog" first???
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Never heard this recording! Elvis obviously laened on THIS version when he "introduced" it as a E.P. set-piece on the June 5th, 1956 Milton Berle Televisison Program.
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R.I.P. Jerry Mayo
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Listen to Elvis sing it in his 1968 special version, he uses the "Big Mama Thornton" line "Snoopin round my door". He was definitely influenced by that early version!
siciliano66 5 months ago
@siciliano66
Where's the video link?
justicejayant 4 months ago