[REX]

great stuff, much thanks Great you enjoyed it "Thankyou"

LEIBER & STOLLER "Big Time"

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Pan Pacific Auditorium ~ 28th October 1957 - Los Angeles, California

They had previously penned scores of hits.

Yet, as Stoller remembers, Elvis's decision to record the song was such big news to his partner that it all but overshadowed an actual life-and-death situation.

"I was sitting in a lifeboat with sixty or seventy other people somewhere in the Atlantic," Stoller recalls.

"I was relieved to be away from the sinking Andrea Doria, the beautiful Italian liner I had been on for the past eight days, which now had a large, gaping hole in its side and was going down fast.

[REX]

LEIBER & STOLLER "Big Time"

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Pan Pacific Auditorium ~ 28th October 1957 - Los Angeles, California

The lifeboat had a broken rudder and couldn't be steered.

I wondered what would happen to me next.

Fifteen hours later I stepped on the dock in New York and was greeted by Jerry Leiber."

What was the first thing Leiber told the damp, cold, and traumatized Stoller?

"Elvis has cut “Hound Dog” and it is going to be his next single!"

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[MauricePColgan]

Wonderful stuff REX, Hound Dog was the first 78rpm record I bought way back in 1957.

People living near to our home back thenwould know it by heart. :-)

[REX]

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Thankyou SPIRTO / BESSIE yes the same image I used in Post # 36.. I reversed the picture due to seeing Scotty's Guitar !

MauricePColgan Posted Today, 07:48 PM --- Wonderful stuff REX, Hound Dog was the first 78rpm record I bought way back in 1957.
People living near to our home back then would know it by heart. :-)

Ha! ...an Auntie brought the record to my family's home in Cheltenham, on a visit... and our Volume Control moved to HIGH also.. I remember the kids at school singing it at playtime...

"Okay FUR-kid......QUIT stealing the show!"

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With THANKS to ...."SWEET CAROLINE" for the pix and cartoons "perfect"

[REX]

Elvis' "Last" Louisiana Hayride show, (Saturday) 15th December 1956.

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Tracklist:
Heartbreak Hotel, Long Tall Sally, I Was The One, Love Me Tender, Don't Be Cruel, Love Me, I Got A Woman, When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again, Paralyzed - closing with HOUND DOG

[REX]

25th February 1961

Just before the Luncheon and Press Conference...

Elvis meets a Group of Elvis Fan Club Presidents -

including the HOUND DOG CHAPTER OF ELVIS FAN CLUB

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[REX]

HOUND DOG "LYRICS" E L V I S

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Elvis Presley - Hound Dog Lyrics
(written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)


You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

Well they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Yeah they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

[instrumental interlude]

Well they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Yeah they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

[instrumental interlude]

Well they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Ya know they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine

So much of this songs words are changed that, only the Title is the same (You ain't nothing but a) HOUND DOG

Elvis doesn't get to sing these first lyrics that are on BIG MAMA THORNTON's Version...

"you can wag your tail"
"but I ain't gonna feed you no more"

"and daddy I know - you ain't no real cool cat"
- & -
"you made me feel so blue ~ you made me weep and moan
you made me feel so blue ~well you made me weep and moan
'cause i'm looking for a woman ~ all your lookin' for is a home"

[REX]

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Big Mama Thornton - Houng Dog [Take 1] lyrics

you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round the door (ELVIS: "Crying all the Time")
you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round my door
you can wag your tail
but i ain't gonna feed you no more

you told me you was high class
but i could see through that
yes, you told me you was high class
but i could see through that
and daddy i know
you ain't no real cool cat

you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round the door
you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round my door
you can wag your tail
but i ain't gonna feed you no more

you made me feel so blue
you made me weep and moan
you made me feel so blue
well you made me weep and moan
'cause i'm looking for a woman
all your lookin' for is a home

you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round the door
you ain't nothing but a hound dog
been snoopin' round my door
you can wag your tail
but i ain't gonna feed you no more

[phyllisnelvis]

Much thanks for this grand thread. Steve Allen still should be kicked in the butt.
Have a great weekend

[REX]

Much thanks for this grand thread. Steve Allen still should be kicked in the butt.
Have a great weekend

Well thanks for that PHYLLIS - if it wasn't a bit late, and the fact your closer than me... you should have done it (Hey, you got my Vote!)

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HOUND DOG 1956 ~ to ~ 1968 "Performances"

May 15, 1956 - Memphis
Tennessee - Ellis Auditorium (first reported time Elvis performed HOUND DOG at the Close of his Show)

May 16, 1956 - Little Rock
Arizona - AZ - Robinson Auditorium - 7:00 - Purple coat and black silk slacks

June 05, 1956 - LOS ANGELES, California
- NBC STUDIOS L.A. ~ "The Milton Berle Show"

July 01, 1956 - New York
New York - NY - NBC-TV's The Steve Allen Show - Tuxedo !

July 02, 1956 - New York
HOUND DOG Recording Sessions.. - RCA STUDIOS -N.Y.

September 09, 1956 - Los Angeles
California - Calif - CBS-TV "The Ed Sullivan Show"

September 26, 1956 - Tupelo
Mississippi - MS - Mississippi Alabama Fair And Dairy Show - 2:30

September 26, 1956
Tupelo - Mississippi - MS - Mississippi Alabama Fair And Dairy Show - 7:30

October 28, 1956 - New York
New York - NY - CBS-TV "The Ed Sullivan Show"

December 15, 1956 - Shreveport
Louisiana - LA - Louisiana Hayride - Shreveport - LA - Hirsch Memorial Coliseum -Last HAYRIDE.

January 6, 1957 - New York
New York - NY - CBS-TV "The Ed Sullivan Show"

August 30, 1957 - Spokane
Washington - WA - Memorial Stadium

February 25, 1961 - Memphis
Tennessee - TN - Ellis Auditorium

March 25, 1961 - Honolulu
Hawaii - HI - Bloch Arena - 8:30 - 1957 - Gold Jacket

June 28, 1968 - Los Angeles
California - CA - Burbank - NBC-TV'S Studio "4" - The NBC-TV "Comeback Special" - 6:00 - Black leather suit

June 28, 1968 - Los Angeles
California - CA - Burbank - NBC-TV'S Studio "4" - The NBC-TV "Comeback Special" - 8:00 - Black leather suit

[REX]

HOUND DOG 1956 ~ "Performances"

First reported time Elvis performed HOUND DOG
at the Close of his Show

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The 1st show that featured a Musical Treat ~ HOUND DOG Live! on Stage

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May 15, 1956 - Memphis
Tennessee - Ellis Auditorium (first reported time Elvis performed HOUND DOG at the Close of his Show)

It is said that this show was the first time - Elvis, Scotty & Bill at the "Ellis Auditorium - on the 15th May 1956"

Had performed (and closed) with "Hound Dog,"

An arrangement of a song they only recently picked up from Freddie Bell and The Bell Boys.

~ While performing in Las Vegas just weeks before.

The song would be their staple closer for the reminder of their performances.

[REX]

Elvis: First TV Broadcast on

National NBC TV of "H O U N D . D O G"

5th June 1956 - NBC STUDIOS ~ LOS ANGELES, California

"The Milton Berle Show"

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Elvis performs without a guitar, and Explodes in front of the camera.

HOUND DOG is a dramatic showstopper with Elvis bumping and grinding

in a Burlesque-Queen version - with a Half speed slow down Ending.

The press reported in outrage at the "Vulger" and "Obscene" performance...

It would be 27 days yet... before Elvis would record the song at RCA Studios in New York.

The fans could hardly wait for it to hit the Record Stores!

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[REX]

"H O U N D . D O G" 5th June 1956 - NBC STUDIOS ~ LOS ANGELES (Continued....)

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Elvis opened the show with “Hound Dog”

The evolution of the song – from its R&B origins through a series of more “countrified” versions culminating in Elvis’s own unique up-tempo interpretation – in many ways mirrored the mixing of musical forms that would provide the basic blueprint for the emerging rock and roll sound.

This is Elvis’s eighth television appearance, and it’s the first one on which he would perform without a guitar.

Confident and comfortable, it is impossible not to get caught up in the excitement and enthusiasm that the King exhibits on stage.

[REX]

"H O U N D . D O G" 5th June 1956 - NBC STUDIOS ~ LOS ANGELES (Continued....)

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Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick perceptively noted how during Scotty Moore’s solo the singer hangs back and exhibits the “shrugging, stuttering, existential hopelessness of James Dean”

(who indeed was one of Presley’s idols) but it was what Elvis did during those moments when he held centre stage that really define this clip.

Twenty seconds in, Elvis stretches out his left arm and lets his hand quiver and vibrate seductively in the air, as though his whole body is charged with the electrical energy of the song.

It’s basically all over at this point: Elvis has won, and the gyrating hip thrusts, the plaintive, bent-knee bearing and toe-pop poses are all merely icing on the cake.

[REX]

"H O U N D . D O G" 5th June 1956 - NBC STUDIOS ~ LOS ANGELES (Continued....)

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Bumping and grinding in time to the beat, he eventually slows the tempo down to a bluesy pace and singles out an audience member (no doubt female) for special attention.

You can almost hear the nation’s moral guardians sitting bolt upright in their chairs at home, outraged at the indecency of what they were seeing on their screens, while the studio audience, shown in a series of cutaways, scream and swoon at his sexually charged magnetism.

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[REX]

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This performance would ensure that the Nick-Name “the pelvis” would be appended to Elvis’s name in countless newspaper and magazine articles from this point on, while a sampling of some of the more colourful press reactions gives a sense of how prudish and stuck up a good deal of America still was in 1955:

an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos” wrote one,

a strip-tease with clothes on” said another.

[Popular music] has reached its lowest depths in the ‘grunt and groin’ antics of one Elvis Presley” groused the Daily News.

[NightRider]

Interesting to see those original lyrics. Was anyone credited as changing them on Elvis' version ?
Great thread btw Rex ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)

[REX]

Interesting to see those original lyrics. Was anyone credited as changing them on Elvis' version ? Great thread btw Rex ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)

Words wise its almost a completely different song... they didn't feel the lyrics appropriate to Elvis, so Leiber and Stoller, mostly re-wrote the whole thing.... So its still "Leiber & Stollers" song.. 'tiss interesting to compare.. and makes you wonder if Elvis ever tried out the Mama Thornton version... and which version was BELL doing in Vegas, that Elvis watched him perform so many times.... Ahh... questions, questions ??? Thanks "Chris"

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"H O U N D . D O G" 5th June 1956 - NBC STUDIOS ~ LOS ANGELES (Continued....)

Elvis himself remained perplexed at the intensity of the moral outrage, and would later comment “I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong…I know my mother approves of what I’m doing” (Guralnick, p 322).

Nonetheless, the reaction necessitated a toning down of the stage act, as future television appearances were jeopardized by the growing scandal.

The next time Elvis performed Hound Dog on TV, he would be conservatively dressed in a long coat and tails, and would sing a slowed down version of the number to an actual basset hound.

On Ed Sullivan, he would famously be shot from the waist up.

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[SweetCaroline]

Awesome thread, Rex, with great detail as always. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif) Took me a day to read through it all carefully and enjoy the fantastic pictures. ELVIS' happy spirit sure showed through in those pictures. Yes, ELVIS' should have been ticked at the treatment by Steve Allen. Likely it only made us love ELVIS more for him being such a good natured soul. So ELVIS actually had the last laugh.