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Little Esther

Hound Dog

1985 · via Big Mama Thornton

Little Esther’s earliest release of “Hound Dog” on file came out in 1985. Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Big Mama Thornton’s, from 1953. Also recorded by Little Richard (released 1964), Carl Perkins (released 1984) and Jimi Hendrix & Little Richard (released 1973), among 945 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Little Esther – Hound Dog
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Mike Stoller wrote "Hound Dog" with Jerry Leiber, and the two of them also wrote "Hard Times", which T‐Bone Walker recorded first and Thornton took on later. Follow Stoller and you keep landing back in her songbook.

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Credited writers: Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber.

Earliest release on file: Big Mama Thornton, 1953.

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Big Mama Thornton put out "Hound Dog" in 1953, three years before Elvis Presley's version came out. Who was one of the two men who wrote it?Mike Stoller
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