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Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (CD)

By: Big Mama Thornton (Artist)

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Big Mama Thornton Artist Snapshot:

A blues shouter in the tradition of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton is best remembered as the first artist to record "Hound Dog." A side-by-side comparison of her version and Elvis's shows just how different a song can be in two great artists' hands: where Presley's version is all frenzy, Thornton's is pure R&B, gritty, haughty, and funky. Although she never matched the success of 1953's "Hound Dog," Thornton remained a popular live performer for the rest of her long career.

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DISC 1 for Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (CD) Album By Big Mama Thornton (Artist)
1   Hound Dog
2   My Man Called Me
3   I Smell A Rat
4   They Call Me Big Mama
5   You Don't Move Me No More
6   Let Your Tears Fall Baby
7   Rock-A-Bye Baby
8   Yes, Baby - (with Johnny Ace)
9   How Come
10   Nightmare
11   Stop A-Hoppin' On Me
12   Just Like A Dog, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
13   Walking Blues
14   Big Change, The
15   Hard Times
16   Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
17   Fish, The
18   I've Searched The Whole World Over
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (2/19/93, p.64) - "...Now 40 years young, these frisky numbers still rock & roll like a cement mixer..." - Rating: A

Title Note

Personnel includes: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (vocals); Pete Lewis, Roy Gaines (guitar); Billy Harvey, James Von Streeter (tenor saxophone); Fred Ford (baritone saxophone); Don Johnson (trumpet); George Washington (trombone); Devonia Williams (piano); Albert Winston (bass); Leard Bell (drums).

Reissue producer: Andy McKaie.

Recorded in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, California from 1952-1957. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.

Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Studios, North Hollywood, California) except "Yes, Baby" (transferred from the original 78 r.p.m. by Steven Lasker, Venice, California).

HOUND DOG contains material recorded for Peacock Records from 1952-1958, much of which had been released in America only as singles.

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. The classic Leiber & Stoller cut opens this set on a torrid note, with its spare but inspired instrumentation and exceptionally well-executed canine-mimicking yelps from the singer. A nostalgic big-band feel pervades many of these cuts, especially the swinging "They Call Me Big Mama," the doo-wop-flecked "My Man Called Me," and the electric-guitar streaked "Rock-A-Bye Baby." The majority of the remaining tracks are down-and-out meditations typified by the dire 12-bar blues "Hard Times." Few can make feeling bad sound as good as Big Mama Thornton.

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