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As Elvis Presley was a major seminal influence on Paul McCartney and John Lennon, [280] and "Hound Dog" was a favorite of the young Lennon and his mother, [281] during The Beatles' early career "Hound Dog" was one of the songs Lennon and McCartney as the Quarrymen and later as the Beatles played from August 1957 through 1961. No recorded ...
The single was released on July 13, 1956, backed with "Hound Dog". [1] Within a few weeks "Hound Dog" had risen to #2 on the Pop charts with sales of over one million. [ 2 ] Soon after it was overtaken by "Don't Be Cruel," which took #1 on all three main charts; Pop, Country , and R'n'B . [ 1 ]
“Hound Dog” was one of Elvis Presley’s earliest singles, landing the number one spot of the Billboard charts and skyrocketing the career of the young musician in 1956. Before Presley put a ...
In 1952, the partners wrote "Hound Dog" for blues singer Big Mama Thornton, [12] which became a hit for her in 1953. [3] The 1956 Elvis Presley rock and roll version, which was a takeoff of the adaptation that Presley picked up from Freddie Bell's lounge act in Las Vegas, [13] was an even bigger hit. [14]
Throughout his career, Elvis had several iconic performances, from playing "Hound Dog"on The Milton Berle Show in 1956 to his legendary 1968 comeback performance covered in the 2024 Netflix ...
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
"Hound Dog" (song), a 1952 song recorded by Big Mama Thornton and popularized in 1956 by Elvis Presley Hound Dog (band), a 1980s Japanese rock band Hound Dog Taylor (1915–1975), American blues guitarist
Elvis died in 1977 at the age of 42, but he very nearly made his mark on the NFL anyway; Memphis made a 1993 bid to join the NFL under the team name “Hound Dogs.”