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The first and most popular answer song to "Hound Dog" was "Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog)" (Sun 101), recorded at Sun Studios at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee on March 8, 1953, [97] just two weeks after Thornton's original version was released, [98] and even before a review of "Hound Dog" had been published in Billboard. [99] "
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), [1] was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B.. The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul described Thornton, saying: "Her booming voice, sometimes 200-pound frame, and exuberant stage manner had audiences stomping their feet and shouting encouragement in R&B theaters from coast to coast from the early 1950s on".
Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the third son of Jean and Laudene (Holt) Miller.Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Miller was a year old. Unable to support the family during the Great Depression, [1] Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jean's brothers.
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The single was released on July 13, 1956, backed with "Hound Dog". [1] Within a few weeks "Hound Dog" had risen to #2 on the Pop charts with sales of over one million. [ 2 ] Soon after it was overtaken by "Don't Be Cruel," which took #1 on all three main charts; Pop, Country , and R'n'B . [ 1 ]
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer.Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts ...
British songwriter Tony Macaulay wrote his chart-topping hit "Don't Give Up on Us" in an unorthodox process. The song was recorded by an actor and went to no. 1 just days after it was written.
"Hound Dog" (song), a 1952 song recorded by Big Mama Thornton and popularized in 1956 by Elvis Presley; Hound Dog (band), a 1980s Japanese rock band; Hound Dog Taylor (1915–1975), American blues guitarist; Hound Dog, a brand of guitars of the Original Musical Instrument Company