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Big Mama Thornton - The Singles Collection 1951-61 (CD) - CD

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Availability:In StockArtist:Big Mama Thornton
Distributor/Studio:AcrobatPublisher:MUSIC VIDEO DIST.UPC:824046440121Weight:0.19Product ID:SCFSB05YF9

Details: Who is best-known for recording the original 1953 version of the legendary song "Hound Dog", which Elvis Presley famously covered to have a big early career hit. Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton was an rhythm and blues and blues singer and songwriter, who is best-known for recording the original 1953 version of the legendary song Hound Dog, which Elvis Presley famously covered to have a big early career hit. Born in Alabama in 1925, she learnt to sing in church but became a disciple of Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie, moving in 1948 to Houston, Texas, a buzzing centre of jump blues, where she built a reputation as a powerful performer and signed a contract with Don Robey's Peacock Records in 1951. Working with Johnny Otis and the emerging young songwriting and producing duo of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, she recorded their song Hound Dog, and it provided her with her sole career hot, topping the US R&B charts, and becoming a landmark record. This 27-track CD comprises all her releases during the first decade of her career, initially for the Peacock label and then for the small Irma and Bay-Tone labels after she moved to San Francisco in the late '50s. She later became a popular performer during the '60s blues boom and made several albums. She was a powerful extrovert expressive perfomer, and this collection, representing her output from a key era of her career, underlines the distinctive nature of her talent as a blues stylist.

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01
Partnership Blues
02
I'm All Fed Up
03
No Jody For Me
04
Let Your Tears Fall Baby
05
Mischievous Boogie
06
Every Time I Think Of You
07
Hound Dog
08
Night Mare
09
Cotton Picking Blues
10
They Call Me Big Mama
11
I Ain't No Fool Either
12
The Big Change
13
I Smell A Rat
14
I've Searched The Whole World Over
15
Stop A Hoppin' On Me
16
Story Of My Blues
17
Rock A Bye Baby
18
Walking Blues
19
The Fish
20
Laugh Laugh Laugh
21
How Come
22
Tarzan And The Dignified Monkey
23
Just Like A Dog (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
24
My Man Called Me
25
Don't Talk Back
26
Big Mama's Coming Home
27
You Did Me Wrong
28
Big Mama's Blues
Distributor/Studio:AcrobatPublisher:MUSIC VIDEO DIST.UPC:824046440121Weight:0.19Product ID:SCFSB05YF9
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