From '' Hound Dog / I Can Feel A Heartbreak ''
Label: Back Beat - 609
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: Aug 1969
A Hound Dog
B I Can Feel A Heartbreak
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"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952.
The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best-known version; it is his version that is No. 19 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
From the 1970s onward, the song has appeared, or is heard, as a part of the soundtrack in numerous films, most notably in blockbusters such as Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Big Mama Thornton version
The blues singer Big Mama Thornton's biggest hit was Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's "Hound Dog," which she recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on August 13, 1952.
Thornton's "Hound Dog" was the first record Leiber and Stoller produced themselves.
They took over the session because their work had sometimes been misrepresented, and on this one they knew how they wanted the drums to sound; Johnny Otis produced the record and played drums on the recording.
Cover versions
1953 country versions
Charlie Gore & Louis Innis (You Ain't Nothin but a Female) Hound Dog
Billy Starr
Tommy Duncan
Eddie Hazelwood
Jack Turner and His Granger County Gang
Cleve Jackson
Betsy Gay
Bernie Lowe, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys 1955
In popular culture
The AGM-28 Hound Dog missile's name is inspired by Presley's version of the song.
The song appears in the 2005 Elvis Presley biopic Elvis.
In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Forrest remembers a time when a young man stays at his home and brings a guitar with him. Forrest dances to his playing of this song. It is shown in the next scene that this man was indeed Elvis Presley. This scene also suggests that Forrest's peculiar dancing (due to the braces he wears on his legs) inspired Elvis's famous dance. Forrest's mother responds negatively after seeing it performed on The Milton Berle Show on a television set in a shop window, a possible reference to the complaints after Presley performed the song in real life.
The 2007 film Hounddog takes its name from the song. It is the favorite song of the film's lead character: the Elvis Presley-obsessed 12 year old girl, Lewellen (portrayed by Dakota Fanning).
"Hound Dog" was sung by Eddie Clendening, portraying Elvis Presley, in the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, which opened in New York in April 2010. Eddie Clendening also covered the song in the Million Dollar Quartet original Broadway cast recording.
The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.
Partial list of cover versions
Freddie Bell & his Bell Boys. Re-recorded for Mercury 1956 and released 1957 on the album Rock´n Roll All Flavors
Sha Na Na did a cover of this song for the 1978 film, Grease
Junior Wells on his 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues
John Entwistle (bassist of The Who)-from his 1973 rock'n'roll album Rigor Mortis Sets In
Jimi Hendrix-from BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)
Jimi Hendrix & Little Richard-from the 1972 "duet" album Friends From The Beginning
The Everly Brothers-from their Rock 'n Soul album
Jerry Lee Lewis (his 1958 version is similar to the Freddie Bell / Elvis version whereas his 1959 version is based on the blues original by Thornton. His live versions have tended to mix elements of both versions).
John Lennon-from one of his last charity concerts in New York, 1972.
Royal Artillery Alanbrooke Band (cf. Field Marshal Alanbrooke)
Billy "Crash" Craddock-recorded on his album Live! 1977
The Muppets--an episode of The Muppet Show.
Johnny Burnette Trio
Recorded live by The Rolling Stones in Memphis, Tennessee on June 28, 1978
Willy DeVille on his 2002 album Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin
Robert Palmer recorded the original lyric version for his 2003 blues album Drive
Tales of Terror recorded for their LP in 1984
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps Live from a Alan Freed radio show in July, 1956
Eric Clapton on his album Journeyman
Bernie Marsden, Ian Paice, Neil Murray, and Don Airey during an Ian Paice and Friends concert
A version by Albert King appears on The Best of Albert King, Vol 1 by Stax released in 1986
Jeff Beck & Jed Leiber, an instrumental version appeared on the audio album Honeymoon in Vegas-Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)
Koko Taylor on her Force of Nature album in 1993
Eddie Clendening on Million Dollar Quartet original Broadway cast recording, 2010
El Vez, as "You Ain't Nothin' But A Chihuahua"
Europe (band), Live at Viña Del Mar (Chile)
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