Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" was a hit when released in 1956. But the original was recorded several years earlier by Big Mama ...

dedicated to the Hound Dog singer, who would have turned 90 on 8 January. He said he became enthralled by Elvis after hearing a vinyl record in his parents' collection in 1977, around the time of ...

And the man said, 'Here's a record that's going nationwide - 'Hound Dog' by Willie ... Little Richard, Elvis, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, to name a few, absorbed into their own sounds.