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'''Hound Dog''' is a 1954 song written by [[Leiber and Stoller]], first recorded by [[Willie Mae Thornton]] and then famously covered by [[Elvis Presley]] in 1956, who turned it into a number one-hit.<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1 Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1]]</ref> | '''Hound Dog''' is a 1954 song written by [[Leiber and Stoller]], first recorded by [[Willie Mae Thornton]] and then famously covered by [[Elvis Presley]] in 1956, who turned it into a number one-hit.<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1 Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1]]</ref> | ||
| − | [[Frank Zappa]] once proposed touring with Presley, where Presley would perform this song as an encore.<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19756/m1 Show 8 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 2]]</ref> | + | [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] once proposed touring with Presley, where Presley would perform this song as an encore.<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19756/m1 Show 8 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 2]]</ref> |
Zappa, however, vastly preferred Thornton's version: | Zappa, however, vastly preferred Thornton's version: | ||
Revision as of 00:37, 1 August 2021
Hound Dog is a 1954 song written by Leiber and Stoller, first recorded by Willie Mae Thornton and then famously covered by Elvis Presley in 1956, who turned it into a number one-hit.[1]
Frank Zappa once proposed touring with Presley, where Presley would perform this song as an encore.[2]
Zappa, however, vastly preferred Thornton's version:
"I was one of the few people at that time who knew that 'Hound Dog' was originally recorded by Willie Mae Thornton on the Peacock label." - Cucamonga Science & Beyond, 19 May 1990, Billboard, Drew Wheeler.
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See also Elvis Presley.
