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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Saturday Music Post - Before Elvis

Before he became a movie idol and Las Vegas headliner, Elvis Presley was heavily influenced by African American blues artists, who are the subjects of a great new book: Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, by Preston Lauterbach. Big Mama Thornton is the most well-known, having recorded "Hound Dog" in 1953, three years before Elvis. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who were teenagers at the time, at the request of Johnny Otis. Today's post at The Faculty Lounge has some tracks (mostly audio) by a few of those classic performers.

Posted by Steve Lubet on January 18, 2025 at 06:20 AM | Permalink

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