Interestingly, “Hound Dog” was actually a cover. However, it’s important to note that recording covers was actually more common in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of Presley’s hits were ...

whose “Hound Dog” borrows its upbeat rhythm from yet another cover,” Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat.” It has a similar rhythm to the one we hear on the contemporary Doja Cat version ...

Baz Luhrmann‘s box-office-topping new movie Elvis does manage to show the powerhouse singer Big Mama Thornton (played by Shonka Dukureh) performing “Hound Dog,” a song she recorded in 1952 ...

Though Thornton’s “Hound Dog” was a hit, and remained at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart for seven weeks, the writing credits for the song were never listed correctly, and the songwriters ...