‎(1965) Blues by Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog and Down Home Shakedown 

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I like your analogy

She could shout and sing with fine musicality and feel. Super!

When I heard it I couldn't describe it. The first NOTE. OMG. soul shaking. I love discovering these GEMS. Perfect wording

She also reminds me of Etta James and Mama Cass!

я тоже это сразу увидел, только талант

Pure and real.

I hope you get the chance to love something without it also having to be a flex. Just be in it, and soak it in. It's an amazing feeling.

And a singer who is a real woman and not a pseudosexy barbie doll ;-)

@@beayou109 EXACTLY!!

That’s s “utterly” unimpressed.

Indeed 💯✅👍

C'est tellement vrai... 👍👍👍💖

Y una biografía que condujo a esas expresiónes artísticas sin hipocresías provocó un desahogo en medio tanto racismo..brillante..admirables seres auténticos..independientes....❤

A great and one time only performance. I saw biking at beale Street Cafe. I was blessed.

All talent and didn't have to look like or act like a street walker to be a great act!

Rock and roll owes it all to Sister Rosetta

U R right bro..

You ain’t lying

"woman who wrote the song" The song was written by two White Jewish men.

Agreed a great version , but get your facts correct

Song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who wrote Jailhouse Rock, Love Me and a ton of other huge hits. Two Jewish boys that came out of Los Angeles. Pioneers of rock and roll as far as songwriting goes.

Back in that era didn't believe in giving blacks their due. It's oblivious alot of white entertainer copy alot blacks music. Just because it sounded alot better.

@@cut1986 @Kent Westmoreland @Darlene Williams They're two different songs with the same title. Big Mama Thornton wrote one, Leiber & Stoller wrote the other. They don't have the same melody, or the same lyrics except for eight words. An analogy: Hambone Willie Newbern's blues classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'"' has twelve words in common with Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession over Judgement Day" and a similar tune, but it wouldn't be fair to say they're the same song. Also the Leiber & Stoller song is rockabilly built on a 12-bar blues structure whereas Big Mama's song is straight-up glorious low-down blues!💙

She's so cool. I love how she casually wanders in and places her bag down, before blowing the place apart. Wonderful. x

Yes

@@QueenAnitaSoul She was a great woman!!!!

And here the masses swore patti la yelle did it first....Big Momma would come out wailing without a microphone 🎤...I mem’ba I was there...Big Momma Thornton was a bad bitch ❤️❤️

I felt it on a spiritual level

And it'll be a masterpiece in another 114 years from now

Damn right

It goes in your blood, head and soul. Big ♥️

I'm 57 years old and I'm a masterpiece. Thanks big mama!)))

Wow

Yessss🙏

If they do I think that queen latifah should play her she kinda reminds me of her ❤️

@@geniasmith5791 she did a great job as Bessie smith

@@geniasmith5791 excellent voice

@@geniasmith5791 oh please no

THAT is the truth!

1965 I mem’ba ole Big Momma Thorton...I was 34 years ole...The late great Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin,stole that whole bringing her purse to the stage from Big Momma Thornton .#RESTWELLAdies

🤣🤣👍🏿👍🏿

And when she grabs her harmonica... You instantly know it's a weapon of massdestruction...

She did a second take on this that's even better (Hound dog take 2), and Buddy Guy, omg!

❤

yo, you indian?

I’m awesome, how are you?

Great ! Born in 1953, I was…..Detroit. Lovin’ this !

Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller wrote this song when they were 19 years old!

@honestmark9281 Bruh

"Let's be clear" and then states the facts incorrectly. She didn't write this song.

Yep. Elvis. I did recently receive some some info on your thoughts of American Racism back in the day and I did not like what I read via the article I read and it was an online story. Very ugly and I cannot believe you said that. Please, please other fans of Elvis tell me what I read was not true. A white guy here who loved that voice of Elvis although the Temptations took me Away. Thank you.

elvis was not racist do not believe what you read

Momz Davis I dont believe it.. Elvis wasn't raised to be disrespectful and he always was the most generous giving people money every chance he got..so your word are truely unbelievable. .

@@plmillerda ELVIS IS AHUMAN, DONT TRUST HUMAN

@Momz Davis BYE

so glad that I have found you , amazing lady, thankyou Mama Thornton 😊

Is that John Lee playing guitar!

@@susanawright7757 The credits at the end of this video mention Buddy Guy, so I think that's him playing guitar. John Lee Hooker is playing the mouth harp, 4th guy after Big Mama Thornton.

I listened to her when I was a kid and that's over 30+ years ago.

I thought I was going to be the only one who got a strong reaction :,D

Agree. I've never heard of her.

Elvis stile most of his music from her

@Kristi Astral if you think she's good check out Sister Rossetta Thorpe

My God yes, did she ever have the swagger!

YES IT SHOULD.

Already is, saw her about 1965 very powerful.

She is black and also woman..it`s almost impossible in any country of the world tHats never will happen in the world. But in the USA certainly impossible (excuse me for my bad english)

@@carlosrodriguez-vj3nr strength and passion Big Mama was so extraordinary the White World learning the blues 💙 Had a great teacher , Powerful voice blues moves the whole world , still

She wrote it. Actually, Lieber and Stoller wrote for her. She was performing at a folk festival and those 2 guys wrote the song on a paper sack and handed it to her. Mama and the band ad libbed the song then and there. Elvis heard it on a record by Big Mama.

23 and I hear ya.

2022

She played the drums, too. RIP, Big Mama! Thanx so very very much for the magic, music, and memories.

@@931dmitris 💙

Oh yeeh

yep

Yes indeed!!

Fantastic!!!!! Now that’s the real deal!

Well Elvis's cover is supposed to be what the woman is saying to him. Great song either way.

Exactly.

Yes it does.

Hound Dog was good...then...she hit that harmonica....!😀 This is old time good time 'Jukin'

Bryson Mills Lol!!!!!!

This shouldn’t make sense but it does lol

Best comment of the thread.

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me

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It's not RnR though. It's Blues.

That’s a whole team of blues legends with her: Howlin wolf, little Walter , man to get to see a show like that

That rasist people what you call’d save this genre until today. No you.

That is Buddy Guy a legend!

I still wonder why white people hate black people so much for no reason

Dope Things 🔥

Most definately gave me goose bumps. All this time I thought Elvis Presley sang hound dog. This is classic material and real music being played and the voice is amazing.

ball and chains was orginally written and song by big moma thorthon in 1956

@@nettiegraham6983 Janis admired her,

Tina Turner was her influences

@@Dino-su2wh Guess you didn’t see the documentary or read the biography on Janis.

i feel ya too bud.

You’re got great taste in music. I grew up listening to my father play her music. We loved her. This is just raw, PURE talent.

Why would you call yourself a whiteboy ? White man

@@jonclark3367 it’s a Southern thing. Like saying “I’m just a country boy” Jerry Lee Lewis use to say that. Just a figure of speech. I’m an urban city “girl” actually a senior citizen. It’s all colloquial. 😊

I'm a 5-foot white woman from KY I love it. never did disco.

Hound Dog was written for her by two Jewish white boys named Lieber and Stroller.

🤣🤣 she is a known legend ! dont you recognise the song 😃

😎💥🌚🎤🎼🎹🥁🎷🎺🎸🎻🌆

Cap

Michelle Ervin What was your grandfather's name I said before this woman needs her life story told and of course your grandfather's name and impact would be mentioned of course.

Holy moly, how amazing ! I would have begged to carry this woman's bags ! She's a rock star x

@@dwightlove3704 There's quite a lot of her life story in "Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton," a chapter of Maureen Mahon's terrific book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll.

Me too, made me so proud to be black. How she lead those man its so amazing ✊🏾. Black women ✊🏾

It made me shake a leg too

Indeed!🙏🏽🙏🏽

@@andersonkevingwenhure2112 SAY THAT!❤️

not even the more popular Elvis cover

Badass

Yea Elvis did good and all but he just didn’t possess the same soul that big Mama Thorton had

Tina Turner and I even never heard of big mama wow God bless

Beautiful black sound

Omg I was feeling goosebumps it’s been a while since I heard good music.

Awesome!

Evis could neva! Respectfully

Hound Dog was written by legendary lyricists Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish white men. Big Mamma did NOT OWN THE SONG. She covered it just like Elvis did, and about a dozen other artists at the time. HER RECORD COMPANY owners were corrupt and run by two crooks -- Johnny Otis -- A white Greek dude who passed as a black man and Don Robey. Poor Big Mamma never got paid while her record manager became MILLIONAIRES. She made just $500 on that song Hound Dog. But that had NOTHING AT ALL to do with Elvis who opened a LOT OF DOORS for black artists such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown and changed the WORLD. Once Elvis broke out EVERYONE MADE MONEY. (Sadly, super talented Big Mamma got dumped in the Chitlin circuit by her corrupt management and that's where her career ended. They stole a ton of her money... millions.)

@@depper sorry sir You have your history confused Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard who is the innovator of Rock n Roll and all those artists you have spoken about came from Little Richard including Elvis Presley.

@@2LivePromo You are ignorant. " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Instead of talking like an idiot, do some research instead. Here is the legendary LITTLE RICHARD - "He sung my Tootie Frutti & by him singing it, made it bigger & made ME bigger" And then he said: “I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”- Little Richard

@@2LivePromo The legendary BB King proves you wrong: "In June 1956, Presley ignored Memphis's segregation ordinances by attending 'Colored Night' at the local fairgrounds amusement park. The following December, King was there as Presley opened up almost unbreakable racial barriers by attending and supporting the segregated WDIA black radio station's annual fund-raising event for 'needy black children' at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium. King wrote in his autobiography that he 'liked Elvis. I saw him as a fellow Mississippian. I was impressed by his sincerity. " -- BB King "When he came to the Goodwill Review (the event WDIA fund raisers of 1956 and 1957), he did himself proud'. 'The Goodwill Revues were important', he wrote. 'The entire black community turned out. All the DJs carried on, putting on skits and presenting good music'. In his autobiography, King said he held no grudges because 'Elvis didn't steal any music from anyone. He just had his own interpretation of the music he'd grown up on, same is true for everyone. I think Elvis had integrity'." -- -- BB King "'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history. 'Many nights after we finished our sets and I'd go up to his suite', King stated. 'I'd play Lucille (on Elvis' guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we'd take turns. It was his way of relaxing'. 'I'll tell you a secret', King winked and laughed. 'We were the original Blues Brothers because that man Elvis knew more blues songs than most in the business - and after some nights it felt like we sang everyone one of them." 'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said, 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'." -- -- BB King

@@2LivePromo And finally... . " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Moron. Elvis CREDITED SONGWRITERS. And WAS CREDITED on EVERY SONG, on EACH ALBUM. EVERY SONG WRITER GOT PAID, and paid really well. Elvis credited every songwriter - on every album Elvis made without exception. Yes -- Including the black song writers that sold their music to Elvis to perform. Lieber and Stoller were two Jewish guys that wrote most of Elvis best material from the early 50s. Not a SINGLE STOLEN SONG. Most big stars had songs written for them. It was considered an honor to have an Ella Fitsgerald, Elvis, Frank Sinatra or a Nat King Cole perform a song that songwritewriters wrote. And no one paid black songwriters more than Elvis Presley.

bin>get.

She is not at all intimated by the male harmonica players... love it!

It really should, instead of Elvis. Or at least do hers before his. SMH.

Lizzo would be perfect for that role

Queen latifah would been perfect.

Me too ! 🥰

God bless all women 😊

deeway1963 hell yea

Amen Bro..!

deeway1963 That goes without saying.I think she used to carry a small pistol with her for protection?????

deeway1963 Lol! 😂Right?! As soon as I heard her singing (and she wasn’t even in front of the mic yet) and then set her big ol’ purse down I KNEW she meant business! 😳😍💪🏽👏🏽

deeway1963 lol alright now!

Sunshine Water I think JILL SCOTT could play her you agree??????

I think Queen Latifa would suit playing Big Mama Thornton

I can promise she is much loved where we live in South Alabama there is a mural of her in her birth town near where we live .Everyone around here adores her .My wife a lifelong music fan had the privilege of living in her home she lived in for a while meeting her on several occasions .She has hundreds of photos and autographs of her with music legends but the photos of her with Big Mama are her most treasured she has not been forgotten at all at least not down here

@@lowriderrookie me too!! She would be perfect!!

@@kennethmcdonald2987 wow! I gotta look that town up and come by there. Sad that she ended up dying broke and alone.

Hello Helena How are you doing today?

​@@ThompsonSmith207I'm doing fine. How are you?

So much music and history came out of the Americana Music Triangle, home of 9 distinct music genres. It’s on my bucket list to go explore the area.

Levon helm!

The American south gave birth to plenty of wonderful music.

HOME GROWN talent!

Amazing

exactly!

i'm teaching it today ^_^

It is, I’m here studying this song and comparing it to Elvis’ version.

In my history we learned how Elvis stole this song from her... so I guess it is teached, just not often.

Zíł'ghaáh Most of Elvis hits were REMAKES

Great hearing this. Glad you like it and made your day.

awww 😭

I'm for that,,,,Listen up Amazon prime Originals

Queen Latifah would be excellent

Ray Charles was a star with crossover hits with black and white audiences. Big Mama was fairly obscure, with a much smaller fan base. It would be hard to guarantee an audience for the movie. A doc would be great, though.

Loved the video such talent awesome!!!

Yes it was 100% n don't let no one else tell you.

@@marysalvi242 look the song is about a man whore why would a man sing about another man being a whore

Hound Dog has been recorded by 250 singers/bands. Poor Elvis was the 10th to record it. He stole nothing from her.

@@tcblev601 He most absolutely stole it. Yes covers were popular at that time but when you build a whole name of one song that someone else did a million times better you stole

@@anxiousbehaviour4832 Elvis was more popular than any other singer!! She recorded this in 53 Elvis in 56. The song Elvis recorded had changed lyrics and genre from blues to rock. Elvis stole nothing from her. It was the version by Freddie Bell who was 9th to record it that Elvis liked and he did a cover of that.

John Lee hooker can tell was not comfortable can see lol.. the rookie of the bunch

all of us, even her in so-cal. plus is fake. Shh.

The Blues - my favorite type of music and songs.

It is on spotify

She used to sing it as a ballad until it was suggested to do otherwise.

@@Ashely56 This particular version? What’s it called?

@@MontaguStudios I looked up Big Mama Thorton and Hound dog and it came up under all the songs she has sung. Ir might have been put on Spotify more recently and that's why you couldn't find it before

I specifically came to RU-vid bc the spotify version is not nearly as soulful as this!

You're a music lover aren't ya.

I think I have already! 🤣

As God intended

I just want to say..um,well..🙄🤔you're absolutely BEAUTIFUL 😍🤤🤭oops❣ (l had too,shiiiid 💩)

It's called hot buttered soul ❤

Its called the blues....you get it or you don't

una gran princesa .

Do you ever buy any of Big mama's music?