“Hound Dog” is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton on August 13, 1952............
“Hound Dog” has been recorded more than 250 times.
********** the songwriters or their heirs are still getting heft checks (residuals) from this.
I thought it was the mob’s heirs making bank on this today.
Jerry Lieber was hung out an office window by his feet and forced to signed over his rights in the 1960s for one dollar. In exchange, he got to live.