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Hound Dog

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eng

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Song recordings produced by Stephen H. Sholes Big Mama Thornton songs Billy %22Crash%22 Craddock songs Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles Little Richard songs Blues songs NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen songs Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles Number-one singles in the United States Etta James songs 1955 singles Plagiarism controversies Songs from Grease (film) Elvis Presley songs Rockabilly songs Jerry Lee Lewis songs 1952 songs Rock-and-roll songs 1956 singles Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients 1953 singles Crossover (music) Songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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%22Hound Dog%22 is a twelve-bar blues song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was recorded by Willie Mae %22Big Mama%22 Thornton on August 13, 1952 in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in March 1953. %22Hound Dog%22 was Thornton's only hit record, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at #1. Thornton's recording of %22Hound Dog%22 is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's %22500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll%22, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.%22Hound Dog%22 has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version of %22Hound Dog%22 is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked No. 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Presley's version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and %22an emblem of the rock 'n' roll revolution%22. It was simultaneously No. 1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presley's 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and it is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's %22500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll%22.%22Hound Dog%22 has been at the center of many lawsuits, including disputes over authorship, royalties, and copyright infringement by the many answer songs released by such artists as Rufus Thomas and Roy Brown. From the 1970s onward, the song has been featured in numerous films, in Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men, Hounddog, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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1992-05-18

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1956-07-13

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Stephen H. Sholes Johnny Otis

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Peacock Records RCA Records

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1955 --07-02 --08-13

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Hound Dog

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