Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
March 8th, 2007 by Jason
Big Mama Thornton
“Hound Dog”
Where do you think Elvis got it from? That’s right — Big Mama Thornton. She wrote the original “Hound Dog”.
Like a lot of musicians in her time, she started in the (baptist) church. Her father was the minister. She started singing young and ran away at the age of 14 to start her career in secular (gasp!) music.
She could belt it.
| "Hound Dog" (download) | |
| From the EP Hound Dog | |
I love this. Okay, so weird story - yesterday at work, my friend and I just randomly started singing this song as a duet. Actually I started and he decided to chime in. It was awesome!
Never been a big Elvis fan (I know, I’m not normal) and this totally kicks his ASS! I love big women with huge voices like this, too bad main-stream america would never accept someone like this!