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Thread #139869 Message #3211860
Posted By: Genie
24-Aug-11 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Jerry Leiber RIP August 2011
Subject: RE: Obit: Jerry Leiber RIP August 22, 2011
There's a lot more on Lieber & Stoller's writing "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton and her being furious when Elvis got all the fame for his version (with people thinking of it as "an Elvis Presley song") in this thread: Origins: Hound Dog.
"Though the song was written by the New York songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller ..., it is said that Big Mama changed a lot of the lyrics, making the song distinctly her own and bringing the sexual implications to the foreground.