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Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (1993)

Big Mama Thornton

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Lead Performance: Big Mama Thornton; Genres: R&B, Reissues

By Ira Robbins

Best remembered for teaching Elvis how to sing ''Hound Dog'' (and man, can she ever!), Willie Mae Thornton was an earthy, do-right R&B titan. Now 40 years young, these frisky numbers on Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings still rock & roll like a cement mixer. A

Posted Feb 19, 1993

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