“Hound Dog” co-writer Mike Stoller has refuted claims that Elvis Presley’s version of the classic rock’n’roll song was stolen from Big Mama Thornton. In an interview with Brain Hiatt for Rolling Stone ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A brass Hohner Old Standby harmonica owned and played by Big Mama Thornton. This bright brass harmonica in the key of ...
Mike Stoller, one of the original writers of Elvis Presley’s 1956 hit “Hound Dog,” says the song was never stolen from blues singer and songwriter Big Mama Thornton. Stoller, now 89, recounted the ...
Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit was far and away her 1952 recording of “Hound Dog” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The press lauded the track as the top blues song in the country, spurring countless ...
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton grew up a preacher's daughter in Alabama, where she was born in 1926 and learned to sing in her church choir. But she sure didn't stay on the holy side of things very ...
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