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Music : The Original Hound Dog
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The Original Hound Dog by: Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton List Price: £14.99 CD-Charts Price: £12.69 You Save: £2.30 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0029667194020 Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ace Release Date: June 25, 1990 Studio: Ace Sales Rank: 33490 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Willie Mae Thornton: A Great Blues Singer.Willlie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was a superb blues shouter in the tradition of Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie. When she sang blues she didn't need to pose, like Elvis and Janis Joplin. She was the real thing. No one denies that Elvis could sing, and his version of 'Hound Dog' is exciting--but Willie Mae's version has bite, thrust, and a hard-won emotional truth. And the song only makes sense when sung by a woman; the hound dog is clearly a no-account male (dig Willie Mae's take on the line 'You can wag your tail'). The previous reviwer calls the original version 'comfy R and B.' Talk about (mental) Anarchy in the U.K.! For the record: Willie Mae Thornton died penniless in a Los Angeles rooming house in 1984, so ... Read More: Rating:  - don't believe the hype - it doesn't hold a candle to Elvis.There is much mythology and fable in rock 'n' roll; that's partly what makes it so alluring - it's the only romantic tradition left. But, as in all other romantic traditions, there's a point where myth and fable disappear over the abyss into plain old fashioned codswallop, and it's pretty difficult to say where that point is. What you can say, I'm afraid, is that Big Mama Thornton's place in pop history is assured only courtesy of such a piece of codswallop. Big Mama's version of "Hound Dog", so the legend goes, puts the subsequent version by Elvis Presley into the shade (oddly, though, the legend doesn't say how, exactly). Had only Big Mama been white, and a man, and it would have been her on the Ed Sullivan show and ... Read More: |
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