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He introduced us to Big Mama Thornton, who wasn't necessarily particularly excited about meeting us. I mean, two white teenagers. She was very tough looking, scars on her face. Then we heard her ...

Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" was a hit when released in 1956. But the original was recorded several years earlier by Big Mama Thornton.

“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary being presented by Alabama Public Television. “I can’t sing nobo ...