"'You ain't nothing but a hound dog' ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit 'Hound dog' before Elvis Presley and who wrote 'Ball & chain,' the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14 and follows her career until her untimely death at age 57 in 1984"--from publisher.
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Big Mama Thornton: the life and music
2014, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English
0786477598 9780786477593
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Table of Contents
The early years of Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
Hound dog : the Peacock years and Johnny Otis
Unlucky girl : from Texas to California
"I'm feeling alright"
Big Mama Thornton's first European tour
Back home
Ball and chain
The early seventies
Sassy Mama still swings
Life goes on
Swing it in home
Epilogue. Big Mama Thornton's legacy.
Edition Notes
"Timeline": pages 151-162.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181), discography (pages 163-170), filmography (pages 171-172), and index.
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