DESCRIPTION:
Alright, back to my beginning in this racket once again! ”Hound Dog” came to life as early as 1962 (drums added in 1964!) and once again I was just fooling around, making up both lyrics and music as I went along, not to mention the somewhat strange pronunciation of ”Hound Dog” (sounds more like ”Hand Dog”, ha,ha!). Everything taking place at the same chaotic session that also brought stuff like ”Stingray's Boogie” and ”Too Much Monkey Business” to life! Nothing too complicated about all this, just plain and straight forward rock'n roll and me having FUN, as always! Enjoy...
TRIVIA:
"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton on August 13, 1952 in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in February 1953. "Hound Dog" was Thornton's only hit record, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at #1. Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll", and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.
"Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version of "Hound Dog" is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked No. 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Presley's version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and "an emblem of the rock 'n' roll revolution". It was simultaneously No. 1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presley's 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and it is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".
"Hound Dog" has been at the center of many lawsuits, including disputes over authorship, royalties, and copyright infringement by the many answer songs released by such artists as Rufus Thomas and Roy Brown. From the 1970s onward, the song has been featured in numerous films, in Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men,Hounddog, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy.