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Hound dog [sound recording] : the Peacock recordings / by Thornton, Big Mama,performer.;

Hound dog -- My man called me -- I smell a rat -- They call me Big Mama -- You don't move me no more -- Let your tears fall baby -- Rock-a-bye baby -- Yes, baby -- How come -- Nightmare -- Stop a-hoppin' on me -- Just like a dog, barking up the wrong tree -- Walking blues -- Big change -- Hard times -- Laugh, laugh, laugh -- The fish -- I've searched the whole world over.Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, vocals.Selections originally recorded in Los Angeles in 1952 and 1953 and in Houston in 1952, 1954, 1955, and 1957.

Subjects: Blues (Music); Jazz vocals.;

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Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969. by Howlin' Wolf,1910-1976,performer.(CARDINAL)726781; Magic Sam,1937-1969,performer.; Muddy Waters,1915-1983,performer.(CARDINAL)526970; Allison, Luther,1939-1997,performer.; Chenier, Clifton,1925-1987,performer.; Crudup, Arthur,1905-1974,performer.; Dawkins, Jimmy,performer.; Freeman, Sonny,performer.; Griffith, Shirley,1907-performer.; Hopkins, Lightnin',1912-1982,performer.(CARDINAL)728250; House, Son,performer.(CARDINAL)434710; Hutto, J. B.,performer.; King, B. B.,performer.(CARDINAL)163136; Lay, Sam,performer.; McDowell, Fred,performer.(CARDINAL)522845; Musselwhite, Charlie,performer.; Rush, Otis,performer.; Sykes, Roosevelt,performer.; Thornton, Big Mama,performer.; Walker, T-Bone,1910-1975,performer.; Wells, Junior,1934-1998,performer.; Williams, Big Joe,1903-1982,performer.(CARDINAL)340866; Blue Nebulae (Musical group),performer.; Hawks (Blues group),performer.; Hound Doggers (Musical group),performer.; James Cotton Blues Band,performer.; Unusuals (Musical group),performer.;

Produced by Parker Fishel and Jim Fishel.Various performers.

Subjects: Blues (Music); Blues (Music);

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Gunsmoke blues [videorecording] by Muddy Waters,1915-1983.(CARDINAL)526970; Burlingame, Michael.; Byron, Toby.(CARDINAL)363142; Smith, George,1924-1983.; Thornton, Big Mama.; Totten, Bob.(CARDINAL)818742; Turner, Joe,1911-1985.; Acorn Productions.; Hip-O Records.; Toby Byron/Multiprises.; Universal Music (Firm);

Early one morning ; Ball and chain / Big Mama Thornton -- Juke ; Leaving Chicago / George "Harmonica" Smith -- Hide and seek ; Shake, rattle and roll / Big Joe Turner -- Mannish boy ; Long distance call ; (I'm your) Hoochie coochie man ; Got my mojo working / Muddy Waters -- So long / Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, George "Harmonica" Smith.Filmed by Acorn Productions, Link Wyler, Bob Totten.Big Mama Thornton, George "Harmonica" Smith, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters.Narration: Andrew Caploe.Filmed in 1971 at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.Blues fan Link Wyler and his buddies from the Gunsmoke TV crew traveled to Oregon to film blues legends Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner and George "Harmonica" Smith, who were touring the Pacific Northwest.DVD; all regions; NTSC; Dolby Digital.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Music videos.; Blues (Music);

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Blues Masters, the essential blues collection. by Prysock, Red.prf; Turner, Joe,1911-1985.sng; Prima, Louis,1910-1978.prf; Harris, Wynonie,1915-1969.sng; Brown, Roy,1925-1981.prf; Jones, Johnny,1924-1964.prf; Bradshaw, Tiny,1905-1958.cmp; Greene, Rudy.prf; Brenston, Jackie,1930-1979.prf; Liggins, Jimmy.prf; Cole, Ann,1934-sng; McNeely, Big Jay,1927-prf; Brown, Clarence,1924-2005.sng; Thornton, Big Mama.sng; Carr, Wynona.prf; Jackson, Bull Moose,1919-1989.sng; Brown, Ruth,1928-2006.sng; Buffalo Bearcats (Musical group)prf; Delta Cats (Musical group)prf;

Hand clappin' (Red Prysock) / Prysock -- Shake, rattle, and roll (Joe Turner) / Calhoun -- Jump, jive, an' wail (Louis Prima) / Prima -- Good rockin' tonight (Wynonie Harris) / Brown -- Rockin' at midnight (Roy Brown) / Brown -- Hoy hoy (Little Johnny Jones) / Jones -- The train kept a-rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw) / Bradshaw-Mann-Kay -- Juicy fruit (Rudy Greene) / Greene -- In my real gone rocket (Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats) / Brenton -- Cadillac boogie (Jimmy Liggins) / Liggins -- Got my mo-jo working (but it just won't work on you) (Ann Cole) / Foster -- Hop, skip and jump (Roy Milton) / Milton -- Deacon's hop (Big Jay McNeely & Band) / McNeely -- Rock my blues away (Clarence Brown) / Curtis -- Hound dog (Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton) / Leiber-Stoller-Otis -- 'Til the well runs dry (Wynona Carr) -- Why don't you haul off and love me (Bullmoose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats) -- Hello little boy (Ruth Brown).Various performers.Songs originally recorded and released 1947-1957.

Subjects: Blues (Music); Rhythm and blues music.; Blues (Music); Blues (Music);

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Before Elvis : the African American musicians who made the King / by Lauterbach, Preston,Author(DLC)n 2011011462;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise. After Baz Luhrmann's movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley's music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King , author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively, based on new research and extensive, previously unpublished interviews with the artists who blazed the way and the people who knew them. Within these pages, Lauterbach examines the lives, music, legacies, and interactions with Elvis Presley of the four innovative Black artists who created a style that would come to be known as Rock 'n' Roll: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and mostly-unknown eccentric Beale Street guitarist Calvin Newborn. Along the way, he delves into the injustices of copyright theft and media segregation that resulted in Black artists living in poverty as white performers, managers, and producers reaped the lucrative rewards. In the wake of continuing conversations about American music and appropriation, Before Elvis is indispensable.

Subjects: Biographies; Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977; Parker, Junior; Thornton, Big Mama; Crudup, Arthur, 1905-1974; Newborn, Calvin; African American musicians; African American singers; Rock music; Popular music; Rhythm and blues music;

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Why Willie Mae Thornton matters / by Denise, Lynnée,author.(CARDINAL)880243;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207).Mothering the blues -- The Black South matters -- Sisters of the dirty blues -- The making of genre and white boy magic -- Grown little girls, tomboy women, and Black radio -- Don't ask me no more about Elvis -- California love/California dreamin' : the Willie Mae West Coast -- Willie Mae inna England -- Your blues ain't like mine -- Mixtapes, white biographers, and Black blues people -- Saved by the Amazing grace of Mahalia Jackson -- A jailed Sassy mama -- The '80s Blackness of Willie Mae's blues -- Epilogue : maternal lineages and DJ scholarship as ancestral work."Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is best-known for two songs covered by white rock 'n' roll stars (Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"; Janis Joplin, "Ball 'n' Chain") but she is unquestionably one of the great blueswomen of her generation. She embodies some of the clichés of the blues, too: Born in the South, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, hard drinking, relatively early death, big nickname, buried in an indigent's grave. Lynnée Denise's Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters pushes past the stereotype to explore what she means to a young, Black, queer DJ of today who considers her an important musical "ancestor in my line of work." The chapters in this book are thematic, but there's a chronology underlying them that keeps readers oriented. The first chapter, for instance, works with a concept of "mothering," and covers Thornton's upbringing. Subsequent chapters explore how Thornton was shaped by growing up in the Black belt of Alabama, how her discography is evidence of her artistic range, how her touring (and relocating to Houston and Los Angeles) created musical migrations, how her musical collaborators shaped her and how she shaped them, Alice Walker's short story "1955," (which imagines Thornton and Elvis Presley meeting one another), how her success on the chitlin' circuit undermines the perception of that space as anti-queer, her on-stage improvisation as key to her lyricism, her gospel album, and her legacy"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Thornton, Big Mama.; Thornton, Big Mama; Women blues musicians; African American women singers; African American women musicians; Blues (Music);

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Essential women in blues [sound recording]. by Ball, Marcia.prf; Strehli, Angela.prf; Barton, Lou Ann.prf; Taylor, Koko.prf; Big Time Sarah.prf; Cox, Ida,1889-1967.prf; Brown, Ruth,1928-2006.prf(CARDINAL)519392; Tharpe, Rosetta,1915-1973.prf(CARDINAL)780668; Hunter, Alberta.prf; Kane, Candye.prf; White, Lavelle.prf; Smith, Bessie,1894-1937.prf(CARDINAL)345120; James, Etta,1938-2012.prf(CARDINAL)367661; Green, Lil,1919-1954.prf; Spivey, Victoria.prf; Wilson, Edith,1896-1981.prf; Willson, Michelle.prf; Webster, Katie.prf; Big Maybelle,1924-1972.prf; Barksdale, Becky.prf; Rainey, Ma,1886-1939.prf(CARDINAL)134280; Wallace, Sippie.prf; Washington, Dinah,1924-1963.prf(CARDINAL)524394; Thornton, Big Mamaprf; Simone, Nina,1933-2003.prf(CARDINAL)301847; Block, Rory.prf; Smith, Mamie.prf(CARDINAL)853745; Reed, Francine.prf; Brooks, Hadda.prf; Barker, Blue Lu,1913-1998.prf; Memphis Minnie,1897-1973.prf; Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women (Musical group)prf;

Compiled and produced for reissue by Thomas R. Leavens ; associate producer, Maribeth Ackerman.Various performers.

Subjects: Blues (Music); Women blues musicians.;

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A hound dog tale : Big Mama, Elvis, and the song that changed everything / by Wynne, Ben,1961-author.(CARDINAL)459716;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The Songwriters -- Big Mama -- Answers and Pretenders -- Elvis -- Epilogue."Ben Wynne's "A Hound Dog Tale" is a detailed history of the rock-and-roll standard "Hound Dog." Citing its original release and reception as a turning point in American popular culture, he reveals how the song reflected American society through issues of race, gender, and generational conflict. The story is compelling. Two white Jewish teenagers from New York and Baltimore who fantasized about being Black wrote "Hound Dog." They gave it to Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, a three-hundred-pound African American female blues belter from Alabama who was as talented as she was intimidating. "Big Mama" made the song a hit in the Black entertainment marketplace. After that, a white Las Vegas lounge singer from Philadelphia rewrote many of the lyrics and recorded an updated version. Not long afterward, an aspiring white Mississippi singer and guitar player named Elvis Presley recorded that version of the song and turned "Hound Dog" (and himself) into a global phenomenon. As Wynne points out, "Hound Dog" crossed the color line repeatedly: Black and white artists who grew up in a rigidly segregated society performed and recorded it. His history of the song includes treatments of the artists who recorded its most well-known versions-"Big Mama" Thornton and Elvis-along with the comings and goings of many others involved in the tune's story. The cast of characters is large and eclectic, including singers, songwriters, and musicians from the worlds of R&B, rock-and-roll, and country music, both honest and unscrupulous record producers and managers, famous television hosts, a couple of lawyers, and even a gangster or two. "Hound Dog" ties all these people together against dramatically changing times during the 1950s. "A Hound Dog Tale" is sure to be of interest to historians who study American cultural history, the 1950s, R&B, and rock-and-roll, or the role of race in American popular music. In addition, R&B, blues, and rock-and-roll music enthusiasts in the United States and abroad will be interested, as will many of the countless fans of Elvis Presley"--

Subjects: Music criticism and reviews.; Stoller, Mike.; Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.; Stoller, Mike.; Leiber, Jerry.; Thornton, Big Mama.; Rock music; Blues (Music); Music and race;

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Cover me : the stories behind the greatest cover songs of all time / by Padgett, Ray,author.(CARDINAL)677400;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.Elvis Presley "Hound dog" (Big Mama Thornton cover) -- The Beatles "Twist and shout" (Isley Brothers/Top Notes cover) -- The Righteous Brothers "Unchained melody" (Todd Duncan cover) -- Aretha Franklin "Respect" (Otis Redding cover) -- Jimi Hendrix "All along the watchtower" (Bob Dylan cover) -- Joe Cocker "With a little help from my friends" (The Beatles cover) -- The Who "Summertime blues" (Eddie Cochran cover) -- Creedence Clearwater Revival "I heard it through the grapevine" (Marvin Gaye cover) -- Gladys Knight & the Pips "Midnight train to Georgia" (Jim Weatherly cover) -- Patti Smith "Gloria" (Them cover) -- Talking Heads "Take me to the river" (Al Green cover) -- Devo "Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones cover) -- "Weird Al" Yankovic "Polkas on 45" (various artists cover) -- Pet Shop Boys "Always on my mind" (Elvis Presley/Brenda Lee cover) -- Whitney Houston "I will always love you" (Dolly Parton cover) -- Fugees "Killing me softly" (Roberta Flack/Lori Lieberman cover) -- The Gourds "Gin and juice" (Snoop Doggy Dogg cover) -- Johnny Cash "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails cover) -- Adele "Make you feel my love" (Bob Dylan cover)."From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower.' The Beatles rocking out with 'Twist and Shout.' Aretha Franklin demanding 'Respect.' Without covers, the world would have lost many unforgettable performances. This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis's 'Hound Dog' and Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help from My Friends' to the Talking Heads' 'Take Me to the River' and Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love.' Written by the founder of the website covermesongs.com, each of the 19 chapters investigates the origins of a classic cover -- and uses it as a framework to tell the larger story of how cover songs have evolved over the decades. Cover Me is packed with insight, photography, and music history"--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Cover versions; Popular music;

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