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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]
Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is credited with "helping to spur the evolution of black R&B into rock music". [9] Brandeis University professor Stephen J. Whitefield, in his 2001 book In Search of American Jewish Culture, regards "Hound Dog" as a marker of "the success of race-mixing in music a year before the desegregation of public schools was mandated" in Brown v.
Written by Leiber, Stoller, and Billy Edd Wheeler #9 US country "On Broadway" The Drifters 9 7 - Written by Leiber, Stoller, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil 1978: George Benson, #7 US pop, #2 R&B "The Reverend Mr. Black" The Kingston Trio: 8 15 - Written by Leiber, Stoller, and Billy Edd Wheeler 1982: Johnny Cash, #71 US country "Rat Race" The ...
If there were an award to bestow for the most accomplished living American pop songwriter who never doubled as a recording artist, the frontrunner would almost definitely be Mike Stoller, 89, half ...
Alongside Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller's work spawned a Rock and Roll and Songwriting Hall of Fame career with two songs in Grammy's Hall of Fame.
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
Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an American songwriter whose work influenced rock and roll.His compositions include "Fever" (recorded by Little Willie John), "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless" (recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis), "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", and "Return to Sender" (with Winfield Scott; recorded by Elvis Presley), and "Handy Man" (recorded by Jimmy Jones).
R&B singer Big Mama Thornton was the first to record Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “Hound Dog” — in fact, it was written for her — before Presley had his fourth No. 1 pop single with ...