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| | Big Mama Thornton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Unfortunately for Thornton, Elvis Presley's smoother and bowdlerized version was a major pop hit in 1956 and successfully eclipsed her biggest claim to fame. | | | 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. | | | She began recording again, and released albums for the Arhoolie, Mercury, and Vanguard labels. |
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| | Blues Bytes Flashback |
| | This album is Big Mama strutting her stuff to the fullest, with rich commanding vocal intensity and the in your face delivery that set her apart from other singers of her era. | | | This is a three CD set of the two albums released in 1975 and one album that has never been released until now. | | | Big Mama is backed by an all-star cast of studio musicians like Cornell Dupree and Ronnie Miller on guitars, Paul Griffin on keyboards, Jimmy Johnson on drums and the hot tenor sax of Buddy Lucas. |
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| | Thornton's record is such a big seller that Peacock Records has three new pressing plants running full time to try and keep up with demand. | | | In late October, Thornton and Johnny Ace are set to appear at New York's Apollo Theater in their first eastern show, then they will be joined by Little Junior Parker and his Blue Flames on the tour. | | | Her talent lives on in her later LPs, many available on CD, and in "Hound Dog - The Peacock Recordings" an essential CD on the evolution of pop music in the world. |
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| | Alt.Culture.Guide CD Playlist: Big Mama Thornton |
| | Later appropriated by Elvis Presley, his 1956 recording of the song overshadowed Thornton's considerable success and launched Presley's career beyond the confines of Sun Records. | | | Thornton is in good form on songs like the soulful "I'm Feeling Alright" and the dirty blues of "Black Rat." Waters' band — which included Otis Spann on piano and James Cotton soaring on harmonica — embraced the material, their immense skills amplifying Thornton's performances. | | | Signed to Peacock Records in 1951, Thornton released a number of singles for the label throughout the decade. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: THORNTON, WILLIE MAE [BIG MAMA] |
| | As a female in a male-dominated profession, Big Mama Thornton made an indelible mark on the music world with her Texas-sized voice and confident lyrics. | | | Strachwitz's record company, Arhoolie Records, who released Big Mama Thornton in Europe (1966) and Big Mama Thornton with the Chicago Blues Band (1967). | | | She received one check for the single in her life for only $500, even though Elvis Presley went on to make "Hound Dog" a rock and roll classic three years later. |
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| | Despite Big Mama's frequent claims to authorship of this song, she was unable to prove it in court. | | | In 1952 Thornton recorded Hound Dog which went to number one on the rhythm and blues charts, and later became a hit for Elvis Presley. | | | She received $500 for her recording and never collected any subsequent royalties from later cover versions. |
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| | Plan 9 Music: Album: Big Mama Thornton - With The Muddy Waters Blues Ba |
| | Big Mama Thornton will always be remembered as the original vocalist for "Hound Dog," a song that helped make Elvis a legend. | | | Big Mama Thornton and the Muddy Waters Blues band laid it out raw in '66, preserved on this disc for all to boogie-loo too. | | | These 17 tracks of powerfully emotional blues were recorded in San Francisco in 1966 during a West Coast tour for Muddy's band. |
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| | Janis Joplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | She grew up listening to blues musicians such as Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton and singing in the local choir. | | | The band signed a deal with independent Mainstream Records and recorded an eponymously titled album in 1967. | | | After splitting from Big Brother, she formed a new backup group, modelled on the classic soul revue bands, named the Kozmic Blues Band, which backed her on I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! |
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| | Popmeter Sixties Jukebox - Rare 60s Music - Big Mama Thornton / In Europe |
| | Later Elvis Presley again made the song into a hit but it really is Big Mama's "Hound Dog" - she feels it and made it her own. | | | She liked the song and finally recorded it but it wasn't released until 1953. | | | Fred's eerie Mississippi bottle-neck guitar style was the perfect match for Big Mama's sensitive but strong voice as she poured out a few comments and thoughts on that rainy afternoon far away from home. |
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| | Amazon.com: Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings: Music |
| | Mama had a hit in Hound Dog way brfore Elvis, and she sings the heck out of it, making Presley's "hiccuped" version, pale in comparison. | | | I will agree that "Big Mama's" version is good...But Elvis is still the "King." When I hear Elvis, I want to get up and move. | | | This was a song (originally) sung by a woman to a no-good bum of a man. Not only that, she does a better job of it than Elvis, etc. |
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| | BIG MAMA THORNTON |
| | "Big Mama" Thornton, blues singer and songwriter, was born | | | Thornton made an indelible mark on the music world with her Texas-sized | | | In 1951 Don Robey signed Thornton to his Peacock Records label. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton - Your Love Is Where It Ought to Be - Last.fm |
| | Of all 645 people that have listened to songs by Big Mama Thornton, this represents 1.1%. | | | 7 people have listened to Your Love Is Where It Ought to Be by Big Mama Thornton. | | | 645 different people have listened to Big Mama Thornton. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton, The Complete Vanguard Recordings |
| | The second disc is Sassy Mama, Willie Mae's second album for Vanguard. | | | Writing songs for future rock stars was not all Willie Mae did though, and the first two albums included here testify to the fact that a Big Mama Thornton show was a rocking good time. | | | She learned how to play the harmonica and the drums (neither of which she does on the albums in question), and eventually was touring with Sammy Greene's Hot Harlem Revue. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters |
| | Her music has influenced the likes of Janis Joplin and Elvis, who would later cover songs originally recorded by Big Mama. | | | She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1984. | | | Big Mama Thorton - Vocals; Muddy Waters - guitar; Otis Spann - Piano; James Cotton - harmonica; Sammy Lawhorn - guitar; Luther Johnson - bass; Francis Clay - drums |
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| | The seminal hit of the 1950s was penned by Leiber and Stoller before they were 20, and was first recorded by the Texas R and B singer, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1953. | | | In addidition to Big Mama and Elvis, this rock classic has been recorded by at least 48 others including Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa and The Osmonds. | | | For a complete Leiber and Stoller Discography, including a list of recording artists for each song, click here. |
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| | Elvis Presley 's smoother and bowdlerized version was a major pop hit in 1956. | | | Her one hit was Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 's "Hound Dog," which she recorded in 1953 with the Johnny Otis band. | | | Thornton, Julia Michelle Describes her life and shows pictures of her daughter. |
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| | BIG MAMA THORNTON & CLIFTON CHENIER Vinyl Records ~ Used, Rare, Collectible and Vintage Vinyl LPs & 45s |
| | BIG MAMA THORNTON & CLIFTON CHENIER Vinyl Records ~ Used, Rare, Collectible and Vintage Vinyl LPs & 45s | | | We are continually scouring the country and the world for the rarest & finest vintage BIG MAMA THORNTON & CLIFTON CHENIER records, LPs & 45s. | | | Records by Mail maintains one of the largest selections of rare and vintage BIG MAMA THORNTON & CLIFTON CHENIER vinyl records available anywhere - online or off. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton - Jail CD Buy Music Online - Specialist Collectors Genres CD LP50s Rock Roll |
| | The creator of "Little Red Rooster" and "Ball N Chain" (covered by the Rolling Stones and Big Brother with Janis Joplin), Big Mama tears through these powerful "live" sessions recorded at various American prison concerts in the company of George 'Harmonica' Smith and others. | | | Big Mama Thornton - Jail CD Buy Music Online - Specialist Collectors Genres CD LP50s Rock Roll | | | The Freak Emporium is the net's largest store of specialist psychedelic, progressive, punk, garage, stoner & heavy, kraut rock, ambient/trance and real alternative music. |
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| | Thornton, Willie Mae ("Big Mama") |
| | Though both songs earned Thornton enough fame to tour nationally, she had signed away her royalty rights, and saw little of the money that Presley and Joplin later did. | | | A benefit concert was given to raise burial money. | | | Willie Mae Thornton sang gospel music as a child in her minister father's church. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton - Wikipedia |
| | Aber erst 1952 konnte Big Mama in der Johnny Otis Show mit leidenschaftlichem Rhythm and Blues ihren ersten Erfolg aufnehmen: "Hound Dog", das in der Version von Elvis Presley später ein Klassiker des Rock and Roll wurde. | | | In den Jahren 1951 - 1954 nahm Big Mama einige Titel in Begleitung der Johnny Otis Band für das Label Peacock auf. | | | Inzwischen an der Westküste der USA niedergelassen, machte sie 1957 eine schwierige Zeit ohne reguläre Band und Engagement durch. |
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| | Thornton's work, but there are some great recordings available from other blues labels, including Arhoolie. | | | After reviewing the talent roster, the decision was made to stretch supplies and capture a couple of songs by each performer, which resulted in about an hour of the greatest blues show in history. | | | Adelphi Records does not own any of Ms. |
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| | New Blues Music Reviews and CD Ratings |
| | On his new CD 'STILL DREAM WALKING', BIG WALKER not only wrote most of the songs, but he plays the harmonica, the saxophone and sings most of the vocals, and the outcome is simply magnificent. | | | This band from New Jersey is credited with bringing the big band blues sound to the east coast. | | | If you had a CD by every musician that DERRICK 'BIG' WALKER has been associated with you'd have quite an impressive blues music collection. |
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| | CD Baby: MUDDY WATERS, BIG MAMA THORNTON, BIG JOE TURNER, J.B. HUTTO: Blues Review of the 20th Century |
| | Thanks to Wyler's Hollywood connections, the MCA Mobile Studio was hired on to record the audio using, at the time, state-of-the-art equipment and techniques,. | | | TopCat Records of Dallas, Texas has announced the release of the CD, The Blues Revue Of The 20th Century - Volume 1, culled from the Lost Tapes of a 1971 concert tour featuring blues greats Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, George "Harmonica" Smith, J.B. Hutto, and Bee Houston. | | | TopCat Records of Dallas, Texas has announced the release of the CD, The Blues Revue Of The 20th Century - Volume 1, culled from the Lost Tapes of a 1971 concert tour featuring blues greats Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, |
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| | Vanguard Records Big Mama Thornton Sassy Mama! |
| | Recorded at Vanguard’s 23rd Street Studios, NY This is Big Mama Thornton’s debut album on Vanguard. | | | In her voice we hear echoes of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson and Julia Lee. | | | *All songs written by Big Mama Thornton-Mattie Fields; Songs of Polygram International, Inc. / BMI |
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| | Spread The Good Word: Hound Dog |
| | But Big Mama received only $500 for her entire life recording “Hound Dog”, while Elvis Presley went on to make it a Rock and Roll classic three years later. | | | Written by composers Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and given directly to her to sing, the song reached number one on the R&B charts. | | | In the early 1950s, Big Mama signed with the Peacock label. |
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| | 'Big Mama Thornton' CDs bei Idealo.de |
| | Vanguard Records CD With the Muddy Waters Band, Big Mama Thornton | | | Vanguard (ZYX) Audio CD The Way It Is, Big Mama Thornton | | | Arhoolie CD The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Big Mama Thornton |
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| | Two years later she topped the RandB charts with the original version of Hound Dog, the Leiber and Stoller song which Elvis Presley would later make world famous. | | | The backing was by Johnny Otis' band with Pete Lewis contributing a memorable guitar solo. | | | Thornton toured with Otis and recorded less successfully for Peacock until 1957 when she moved to California. |
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| | Blues Before Sunrise - BIG MAYBELLE vs BIG MAMA THORNTON |
| | Big Maybelle recorded for the Okeh, King, and Savoy labels. | | | We ll listen to sides by both these powerful singers including Gabbin Blues by Big Maybelle and the original version of Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton. | | | Big Mama Thornton did most of her work for Don Roby s Peacock label. |
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| | Burn Big Mama Thornton CDs for only 79 cents a song. | | | Get more great music on the Download and Listen home page and site index, and links page. | | | Get the largest digital music collection in the world. |
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| | Mighty Crazy by Big Mama Thornton , Lightnin Hopkins : Music CD |
| | Mighty Crazy by Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin Hopkins : Music CD Mighty Crazy by Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin Hopkins : Music CD crimsonbird.com | | | Mighty Crazy by Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin Hopkins : Music CD Title -- Mighty Crazy | | | Product Type -- Music, Audio CD Music Label -- Catfish UK Release Date -- 05 November, 2002 |
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| | Elvis Presley later did a cover of this song with huge success. | | | that Big Mama was able to meet and listen to many of the great blues artists who | | | By the late 50’s her popularity had slowed a bit, but Mama had a song up her sleeve |
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| | Hound Dog - The Peacock Recordings - Big Mama Thornton |
| | If you've never heard Big Mama Thornton's version of "Hound Dog" (recorded years before Elvis Presley's legendary take)--or any of the singer's muscular R&B efforts--you'd do yourself a service to investigate this collection. | | | HOUND DOG contains material recorded for Peacock Records from 1952-1958, much of which had been released in America only as singles. | | | Hound Dog - The Peacock Recordings - Big Mama Thornton |
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| | Big Mama Thornton : Jail - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Her sole R&B hit, which never made the pop charts, became Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" in most listeners' minds, just as surely as Otis Redding's "Respect" was universally credited to Aretha Franklin. | | | Big Mama Thornton : Jail - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect | | | Listeners who are left wanting more Big Mama Thornton can invest in The Complete Vanguard Recordings, a triple-CD set that includes all of Jail and two albums from the same era: Sassy Mama and the previously unreleased Big Mama Swings. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Elvis Presley; Janis Joplin; Johnny Otis; Big Maybelle; Junior Parker; Memphis Minnie; Bessie Smith; Ma Rainey; Bee Houston; | | | Big Mama Thornton - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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| | RollingStone.com: Big Mama Thornton - Music, News, Videos, Photos, CD, Songs, Albums, Reviews |
| | RollingStone.com: Big Mama Thornton - Music, News, Videos, Photos, CD, Songs, Albums, Reviews |
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| | Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton : Music CD |
| | Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton : Music CD Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton : Music CD crimsonbird.com | | | Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton : Music CD Title -- Ball N' Chain | | | Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton : Music CD |
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| | Bluesroots.de - Biographie - Big Mama Thornton |
| | Ab 1957 machte sie eine schwere Zeit ohne feste Band und Engagements durch und tingelte nur noch durch kleine Clubs. | | | Erst im Jahre 1952 konnte sie in der Johnny Otis Show ihren ersten Erfolg aufnehmen - "Hound Dog", der, von Elvis Presley gecovert, ein Klassiker des Rock and Roll wurde. | | | Zwischen 1951 - 1954 nahm Big Mama einige Titel für das Label "Peacock" zusammen mit der Johnny Otis Band auf. |
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| | Shock Records - COMPLETE VANGUARD RECORDINGS - BIG MAMA THORNTON |
| | Shock Records - COMPLETE VANGUARD RECORDINGS - BIG MAMA THORNTON | | | Read Reviews of this record or add your own (currently 0) | | | The Big Mama’s classic mid-1970’s albums, “Jail,” Sassy Mama!” and “Big Mama” in a special 3CD set. |
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| | Big Mama Thornton music on CD Begin your search for music by: | | | I was glad to leave that country and come back to my dear native land, where | | | There was a loving pride of Big Mama Thornton about this person's way of |
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| | Featuring 6 unreleased bonus tracks including a rare 15 minute interview of Big Mama Thornton by Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz. | | | Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton - vocals (+ harmonica &/or drums on *) |
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| | Sassy Mama CD - Best Price on Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton Albums at Onino UK |
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| | Big Mama Thornton Guitar Tabs |
| | The Tabworld.com - Internet's largest tablature and lyrics archive, including the latest Big Mama Thornton guitar tabs. | | | Browse our A-Z archive of tabs and lyrics | | | Home » B » Big Mama Thornton guitar tabs » |
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