Post by pledm on Dec 9, 2012 9:35:19 GMT -5
Really enjoy both versions;
Hound Dog” is a blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and first recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in 1952.
Here is a great video, but it is filmed 13 years after the song was initially released. Buddy Guy plays the guitar;
The blues singer Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit was Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” which she recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on August 13, 1952. Thornton’s “Hound Dog” was the first record Leiber and Stoller produced themselves. They took over the session because their work had sometimes been misrepresented, and on this one they knew how they wanted the drums to sound; Johnny Otis produced the record and played drums on the recording. This 1953 Peacock Records release (#1612) was number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for seven weeks.
The Elvis Presley recording from 1956 is the best-known version;
Elvis Presley’s first, apparently not very successful, appearance in Las Vegas, as an “extra added attraction,” was in the Venus Room of the new Frontier Hotel from April 23 through May 6, 1956. Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were the hot act in town, and Elvis went to the Sands to take in their show.
Elvis not only enjoyed the show, but also loved their reworking of “Hound Dog” and asked Freddie if he had any objections to him recording his own version. By May 16 Elvis had added “Hound Dog” to his live performances.
In fact it was Freddie Bell who changed the original lyrics to include the now-familiar “Cryin’ all the time” and “You ain’t never caught a rabbit.”
Hound Dog” is a blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and first recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in 1952.
Here is a great video, but it is filmed 13 years after the song was initially released. Buddy Guy plays the guitar;
The blues singer Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit was Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” which she recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on August 13, 1952. Thornton’s “Hound Dog” was the first record Leiber and Stoller produced themselves. They took over the session because their work had sometimes been misrepresented, and on this one they knew how they wanted the drums to sound; Johnny Otis produced the record and played drums on the recording. This 1953 Peacock Records release (#1612) was number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for seven weeks.
The Elvis Presley recording from 1956 is the best-known version;
Elvis Presley’s first, apparently not very successful, appearance in Las Vegas, as an “extra added attraction,” was in the Venus Room of the new Frontier Hotel from April 23 through May 6, 1956. Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were the hot act in town, and Elvis went to the Sands to take in their show.
Elvis not only enjoyed the show, but also loved their reworking of “Hound Dog” and asked Freddie if he had any objections to him recording his own version. By May 16 Elvis had added “Hound Dog” to his live performances.
In fact it was Freddie Bell who changed the original lyrics to include the now-familiar “Cryin’ all the time” and “You ain’t never caught a rabbit.”