robert loers wrote you ain't nothin but a hound dog.
who wrote you ain't nothin but a hound dog?
robert loers
on august 12, 1952, r&b bandleader johnny otis asked 19-year-old songwriters jerry leiber and mike stoller to his home to meet blues singer willie mae "big mama" thornton. thornton had been signed by "diamond" don robey's houston-based peacock records the year before, and after two failed singles, robey had enlisted otis to reverse her fortunes. after hearing thornton rehearse several songs, leiber and stoller "forged a tune to suit her personality—brusque and badass". in an interview in "rolling stone" in april 1990, stoller said: "she was a wonderful blues singer, with a great moaning style. but it was as much her appearance as her blues style that influenced the writing of 'hound dog' and the idea that we wanted her to growl it." leiber recalled: "we saw big mama and she knocked me cold. she looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. and she was mean, a 'lady bear,' as they used to call 'em. she must have been 350 pounds, and she had all these scars all over her face" conveying words which could not be sung. "but how to do it without actually saying it? and how to do it telling a story? i couldn't just have a song full of expletives." in 1999, leiber said, "i was trying to get something like the furry lewis phrase 'dirty mother furya'. i was looking for something closer to that but i couldn't find it, because everything i went for was too coarse and would not have been playable on the air." using a "black slang expression referring to a man who sought a woman to take care of him", the song's opening line, "you ain't nothin' but a hound dog", was a euphemism, said leiber the song, a southern blues lament, is "the tale of a woman throwing a gigolo out of her house and her life":
hound dog (song)
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hound dog or hound dog may refer to:





























bullet::::- hound, a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing prey





























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bullet::::- "hound dog" (song), a song popularized by elvis presley





























bullet::::- hound dog (band), a 1980s japanese rock band





























bullet::::- hound dog taylor (1915–1975), american blues guitarist





























bullet::::- hound dog, a brand of guitars of the original musical instrument company





























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bullet::::- "hounddog" (film), a 2007 dramatic film starring dakota fanning





























bullet::::- agm-28 hound dog, a us air force missile





























bullet::::- hound dog, a brand of lawn tools of ames true temper
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