#Big Mama Thornton:

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Congratulations to the #RockHall2024 Inductee Class for achieving Music's Highest Honor! 🤘 Learn more about this year's Inductees here: http://rockhall.com/2024-inductees

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On August 13, 1952, four years before Elvis Presley would make “Hound Dog” his longest running no. 1 hit, the song was recorded for the very first time by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. #OnThisDay

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Big Mama Thornton recording at the Boarding House SF 1965.⁣ Photo : Jim Marshall.

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Disclaimer:

This is part of a series of polls I want to make. This set of musicians are those who were making rock music prior to the late 1970s/1980s, (That is why artists like Prince and Tina Turner are not featured on here). As well as this not including subgenres of rock like punk, metal, funk rock and so forth.

I also just wanted to make this so I could probably get some suggestions on BLACK musicians that made rock music. It's not a contest, I just want to see which musicians some people like and for this to be a way for people to discover them.

Other Polls:

Punk

Metal

Randomly selected musicians in rock

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Big Mama Thornton † July 25, 1984

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Big Mama Thornton, Newport Folk Festival, 1969

Photos by Joe Sia

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Yvonne Elliman (1951-) solo Songs: "If I Can't Have You," "I Don't Know How to Love Him" Propaganda: see visual

Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984) solo Songs: "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain" Propaganda: "known for her swagger and larger-than-life presence, big mama thornton was a blues and r&b singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was a key figure in the lineage of rock & roll. a self-taught musician, she started touring as a teenager and was quickly dubbed "the new bessie smith". to quote the rock & roll hall of fame: "Thornton’s live performances were legendary. Standing just as tall – if not towering over – the men with whom she shared the stage, Thornton not only sang harder than her male contemporaries, she reportedly also outperformed and outdrank them nightly." inspired by seeing her perform, songwriting duo jerry lieber and mike stoller wrote "hound dog" for her which became a hit, topping the r&b charts for seven weeks and selling over half a million copies (three years later it became an even bigger hit for some guy named elvis). she also wrote the song "ball and chain" which janis joplin covered and popularized in the 60s."

Visual Propaganda for Yvonne Elliman:

Visual Propaganda for Big Mama Thornton:

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Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was born December 11, 1926 and died July 25, 1984 at the age of 57

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Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, 1970.

[cyarsk5230]

And the Class of 2024 Inductees are... #RockHall2024 #MusicsHighestHonor

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Big Mama THORNTON; In her dressing room at the 4th American Folk Blues Festival, with J.B. Lenoir (Photo by Jim BarronRedferns)

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You ain't nothin' but a hound dog

Been snoopin' 'round my door

You're just a old hound dog

Been snoopin' 'round my door

You can wag your tail

But I ain't gonna feed you no more

Big Mama Thornton

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Big Mama Thornton  *December 11, 1926

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Singer/songwriter/blues legend Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984)