Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Horse racing Ice hockey Karate Olympics Racing Motorsport Asian Games or Asiad are a multisport event taking place every four years among the athletes from all. I/511xGv-Sx9L.jpg' alt='Ramones Too Tough To Die Blogspot Movies' title='Ramones Too Tough To Die Blogspot Movies' />Hound Dog song WikipediaHound Dog is a twelve bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton on August 1. Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in late February 1. Geometry Dash 1.6 Full. Hound Dog was Thorntons only hit record, selling over 5. R B charts, including seven weeks at 1. Thorntons recording of Hound Dog is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 5. Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2. Hound Dog has been recorded more than 2. The best known version of Hound Dog is the July 1. Elvis Presley, which is ranked No. Rolling Stone magazines list of the 5. Greatest Songs of All Time it is also one of the best selling singles of all time. Presleys version, which sold about 1. It was simultaneously No. US pop, country, and R B charts in 1. Presleys 1. 95. 6 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1. Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 5. Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Hound Dog has been at the center of controversies and several 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 1. 97. 0s onward, the song has been featured in numerous films, including Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo Stitch, A Few Good Men, Hounddog, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy. Background and compositioneditOn August 1. R B bandleader Johnny Otis asked 1. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to his home to meet blues singer Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. Thornton had been signed by Diamond Don Robeys Houston based Peacock Records the year before, and after two failed singles, Robey had enlisted Otis to reverse her fortunes. After hearing Thornton rehearse several songs, Leiber and Stoller forged a tune to suit her personalitybrusque and badass. In an interview in Rolling Stone in April 1. Stoller said She was a wonderful blues singer, with a great moaning style. But it was as much her appearance as her blues style that influenced the writing of Hound Dog and the idea that we wanted her to growl it. Leiber recalled We saw Big Mama and she knocked me cold. She looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. And she was mean, a lady bear, as they used to call em. I/51XQZjjSCWL._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_PIStarRatingFOUR%2CBottomLeft%2C360%2C-6_SR600%2C315_ZA(15%20Reviews)%2C445%2C286%2C400%2C400%2Carial%2C12%2C4%2C0%2C0%2C5_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg' alt='Ramones Too Tough To Die Blogspot Movies' title='Ramones Too Tough To Die Blogspot Movies' />Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. Hound Dog is a twelvebar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton on August 13, 1952, in Los. She must have been 3. But how to do it without actually saying itAnd how to do it telling a story I couldnt just have a song full of expletives. In 1. Leiber said, I was trying to get something like the Furry Lewis phrase Dirty Mother Furya. I was looking for something closer to that but I couldnt find it, because everything I went for was too coarse and would not have been playable on the air. Using a black slang expression referring to a man who sought a woman to take care of him,8 the songs opening line, You aint nothin but a hound dog, was a euphemism, said Leiber6 The song, a Southern blues lament,9 is the tale of a woman throwing a gigolo out of her house and her life 1. You aint nothin but a hound dog. Quit snoopin round my door. You can wag your tail. But I aint gonna feed you no more1. The song was written for a woman to sing in which she berates her selfish, exploitative man,1. According to Iain Thomas, Hound Dog embodies the Thornton persona she had crafted as a comedienne prior to entering the music business by parading the classic puns, extended metaphors, and sexual double entendres so popular with the bawdy genre. R B expert George A. Moonoogian concurs, calling it a biting and scathing satire in the double entendre genre of 1. Leiber and Stoller wrote the song Hound Dog in 1. Leiber scribbling the lyrics in pencil on ordinary paper and without musical notation in the car on the way to Stollers apartment. Said Leiber, Hound Dog took like twelve minutes. Thats not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. According to Leiber, as soon as they reached the parking lot and Stollers 1. Plymouth, I was beating out a rhythm we called the buck dance on the roof of the car. We got to Johnny Otiss house and Mike went right to the pianodidnt even bother to sit down. He had a cigarette in his mouth that was burning his left eye, and he started to play the song. Leiber and Stoller along with Johnny Otis, also wrote a different version to the Hound Dog song structure on behalf of Big Mama Thornton, recorded with an alternative lyric entitled Tom Cat. Big Mama Thorntons version 1. Thorntons recording of Hound Dog is credited with helping to spur the evolution of black R B into rock music. Brandeis University professor Stephen J. Whitefield, in his 2. In Search of American Jewish Culture, regards Hound Dog as significant, as it marked the success of race mixing in music a year before the desegregation of public schools was mandated1. Brown v. Board of Education. Leiber regarded the original recording by the 3. Big Mama Thornton as his favorite version,1. Stoller said, If I had to name my favorite recordings, Id say they are Big Mama Thorntons Hound Dog and Peggy Lees Is That All There Is2. RecordingeditThornton recorded Hound Dog at Radio Recorders Annex2. Los Angeles on August 1. It subsequently became her biggest hit. According to Hound Dog The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography, Thorntons Hound Dog was the first record that Leiber and Stoller produced themselves, taking over from bandleader Johnny Otis. Said Stoller We were worried because the drummer wasnt getting the feel that Johnny had created in rehearsal. Johnny, Jerry said, cant you play drums on the record No one can nail that groove like you. Whos gonna run the session he asked. Silence. You two he asked. The kids are gonna run a recording sessionSure, I said. The kids wrote it. Let the kids do it. Icons Super Pdf. Johnny smiled and said, Why not2. Otis played drums on the recording,2. Ledard Kansas City Bell. As Otis was still signed exclusively to Federal Records, a subsidiary of Syd Nathans King Records as Kansas City Bill2. Mercury Records at this time, 2. Otis used the pseudonym Kansas City Bill after his drummer Kansas City Bell on this record. Therefore, Otis, Louisiana blues guitarist Pete Guitar Lewis, and Puerto Rican bass player Mario Delagarde2. Albert Winston are listed as Kansas City Bill Orchestra on the Peacock record labels. In an interview included on the album Leavin Chicago, Thornton credits Lewis for establishing the feel of her recording. During the rehearsal, Leiber objected to Thorntons vocal approach, as she was crooning rather than belting it out. Wayne Robins, Leiber recalled that it was terrible, It was like Ethel Waterss Cabin in the Sky thinking thats what the song required. In June 2. 00. 1 Leiber recalled We took the song back to Big Mama and she snatched the paper out of my hand and said, Is this my big hit And I said, I hope so. Next thing I know, she starts crooning Hound Dog like Frank Sinatra would sing In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning. And Im looking at her, and Im a little intimidated by the razor scars on her face, and shes about 2.