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Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is credited with "helping to spur the evolution of black R&B into rock music". [9] Brandeis University professor Stephen J. Whitfield, in his 2001 book In Search of American Jewish Culture, regards "Hound Dog" as a marker of "the success of race-mixing in music a year before the desegregation of public schools was mandated" in Brown v.
Review of Hound Dog in NY Times carries this account. "Otis made the case for his “Hound Dog” contribution in a 2000 interview: “Parts of it weren’t really acceptable. I didn’t like that reference to chicken and watermelon, said, ‘Let’s get that . . . out of there.’ . . . Then Elvis Presley made it a megahit, and they got greedy.
On June 5, 1956, Presley performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, as well as an early version of "Hound Dog" [5] that resulted in both overwhelmingly favorable audience reaction and outrage. [5] Despite the heated public controversy, the single was generally well-received, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100 chart, and scoring No. 1 on ...
The song, which interpolates Big Mama Thornton’s 1952 foundational rock and roll song “Hound Dog,” was the first taste of Elvis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, which also features songs ...
During his last show, Elvis performed a wide-ranging setlist that covered the entirety of his career. The slate featured everything from his earliest hits in the 1950s, songs released during his ...
Legendary songwriter Mike Stoller joins our 'Rolling Stone Music Now' podcast to explain how he and Jerry Leiber wrote "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton – and what happened afterwards
The iconic nature of Elvis Presley in music and popular culture has often made him a subject of, or a touchstone in, numerous songs, both in America and throughout the world. A few of Presley's own songs became huge hits in certain regions of the world, in versions whose translation into the required language bore little or no resemblance to ...
The song's lyrics refer to a man who was an "underwhelming lover" [3] whom Doja Cat feels "never deserved her attention". [4] Produced by Rogét Chahayed and Yeti Beats, it samples Shonka Dukureh's recording of the song "Hound Dog", which was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, first recorded by Big Mama Thornton (who Dukureh plays in the film) in 1952 and notably covered by Presley.