R&B CLASSIC BIG MAMA THORNTON -HOUND DOG EX
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Feb 10, 2007 Sold Date
Jan 31, 2007 Start Date
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A REALLY NICE COPY OF THIS MEGA RARE RHYTHM AND BLUES CLASSIC FROM BIG MAMA THORNTON

Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American Blues and R&B singer. She was the original singer to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1953. The song spent nine weeks at #1 on the US R&B charts, and came from the young songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller recorded in 1953 with the Johnny Otis band. Big Mama Thornton always claimed to have written the song herself (a claim which may actually hold some validity), and her ferocious rendition of it (complete with Big Mama's growl and a nasty guitar line by Pete Lewis) held the #1 spot in the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for nine weeks. Unfortunately for Thornton, Elvis Presley's smoother version was a major rock'n'roll hit in 1956 and successfully eclipsed her biggest claim to fame.

Thornton's version is slow and threatening. Her man is nothing but a hound dog, but he won't be sniffing around anymore. The rhythm is jerky and the playing is deliberately primitive. The lyrics are interrupted by growling from Thornton and barking and howling from the band. It is a blues song, plain and simple, nothing rock and roll about it but the enthusiastic rendition

Thornton continued to tour the "chitlin' circuit" as fans began to favour newer R&B sounds over blues. For some years, Big Mama suffered in obscurity like most of her fellow bluesmen. Her name gained wider prominence and her career enjoyed a significant resurgence as her song "Ball and Chain" was covered by Janis Joplin, making it a regular number in her repertoire. From that point onward, Thornton would remain a headliner at blues festivals, colleges, and clubs throughout the country and even in Europe. She began recording again, and released albums for the Arhoolie, Mercury, and Vanguard labels. Years of hard drinking and living began to take their toll, however, and by the late 1970s her health (and her trademark girth) had declined greatly. She nevertheless performed until her death in 1984 in Los Angeles, where she was found dead from natural causes in the boarding house room she had been living in. Johnny Otis conducted her funeral services, and she was laid to rest in Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Disc Detail : - PEACOCK 1612  WILLIE MAE "BIG MAMA" THORNTON

A SIDE:- HOUND DOG(Lieber, Stoller, Otis) matrix# Don Robey AcA 2258 EX

B SIDE:- NIGHT MARE (Lieber, Stoller, Otis) matrix# Don Robey AcA 2260 VG+

FANTASTIC ORIGINAL RHYTHM AND BLUES IN REALLY NICE CONDITION

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