@Sweet--Richard.4981 where do you think rock came from? You have a lot to learn. You'd do well to spend more time reading and researching and less time making asinine comments.
And here the masses swore patti la yelle did it first....Big Momma would come out wailing without a microphone 🎤...I mem’ba I was there...Big Momma Thornton was a bad bitch ❤️❤️
Y una biografía que condujo a esas expresiónes artísticas sin hipocresías provocó un desahogo en medio tanto racismo..brillante..admirables seres auténticos..independientes....❤
The song makes so much more sense being sang by the woman who wrote the song and viewing her a cheating man from her perspective. “ You ain’t nothing but a hound dog snooping around my door....I ain’t gone feed you no mo.” What a voice!
Song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who wrote Jailhouse Rock, Love Me and a ton of other huge hits. Two Jewish boys that came out of Los Angeles. Pioneers of rock and roll as far as songwriting goes.
Back in that era didn't believe in giving blacks their due. It's oblivious alot of white entertainer copy alot blacks music. Just because it sounded alot better.
@@cut1986 @Kent Westmoreland @Darlene Williams They're two different songs with the same title. Big Mama Thornton wrote one, Leiber & Stoller wrote the other. They don't have the same melody, or the same lyrics except for eight words. An analogy: Hambone Willie Newbern's blues classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'"' has twelve words in common with Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession over Judgement Day" and a similar tune, but it wouldn't be fair to say they're the same song. Also the Leiber & Stoller song is rockabilly built on a 12-bar blues structure whereas Big Mama's song is straight-up glorious low-down blues!💙
Damn, She deserves a lot more credit than she got.. What an amazingly talented musician, a triple threat, & fierce on the harmonica..crazy how talented this woman was..
She is black and also woman..it`s almost impossible in any country of the world tHats never will happen in the world. But in the USA certainly impossible (excuse me for my bad english)
@@carlosrodriguez-vj3nr strength and passion Big Mama was so extraordinary the White World learning the blues 💙 Had a great teacher , Powerful voice blues moves the whole world , still
I'm a white boy from Kentucky... I was born in the wrong Era. I love the old school blues. Big Mama Thornton touches my soul. What a set of lungs on her
@@jonclark3367 it’s a Southern thing. Like saying “I’m just a country boy” Jerry Lee Lewis use to say that. Just a figure of speech. I’m an urban city “girl” actually a senior citizen. It’s all colloquial. 😊
I was scrolling thumbnails and listening to 30 second intros, and that exact part is what made me click all the way into this video...I was like, oh WAIT A minute...! 😦 I've heard of this woman but I've never heard this VOICE...now I see why I've heard about her! 🤩🗣
I hope she gets a movie done about her life. She is so underrated and never really got recognized for her work unless somebody ripped her song off. If hound dog is the only song you know that she sung please research before debating with me.
Michelle Ervin What was your grandfather's name I said before this woman needs her life story told and of course your grandfather's name and impact would be mentioned of course.
@@dwightlove3704 There's quite a lot of her life story in "Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton," a chapter of Maureen Mahon's terrific book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll.
Wooooh! 18 year old, born, and raised in Arkansas! Blues Musician, Scholar, Bard, and an Avid Blues Iistener. We need more people my age listening to real Music.
I'm a white woman that grew up in KY. And Big Mama ❤️ Always played in our house ☺️ My whole family is Musicians. Mama Thorntons voice was my favorite. She gave me "Soul" 🥰
deeway1963 Lol! 😂Right?! As soon as I heard her singing (and she wasn’t even in front of the mic yet) and then set her big ol’ purse down I KNEW she meant business! 😳😍💪🏽👏🏽
RIP John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001), aged 83 RIP Big Walter Horton (April 6, 1921 - December 8, 1981), aged 60 RIP Doctor Ross (October 21, 1925 - May 28, 1993), aged 67 RIP Big Mama Thornton (December 11, 1926 - July 25, 1984), aged 57 RIP J. B. Lenoir (March 5, 1929 - April 29, 1967), aged 38 You will be remembered as a legends.
@@susanawright7757 The credits at the end of this video mention Buddy Guy, so I think that's him playing guitar. John Lee Hooker is playing the mouth harp, 4th guy after Big Mama Thornton.
She was called big mama due to being 6 ft and 450 pounds, Thornton was found dead at age 57, by medical personnel in a Los Angeles boarding house, on July 25, 1984 She died of heart and liver disorders, due to her longstanding alcohol abuse, She had lost 355 pounds (161 kg) in a short time, as a result of illness her weight dropping, from 450 to 95 pounds (204 to 43 kg) R.I.P.
1965 I mem’ba ole Big Momma Thorton...I was 34 years ole...The late great Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin,stole that whole bringing her purse to the stage from Big Momma Thornton .#RESTWELLAdies
I LOVE BIG MA T...wow...she recorded Hound Dog three years before Elvis...(I think she sang it better)...she was the real deal. I wish a movie would be made about her life...what a treasure she was. RIP Big Ma the world still remembers you.
I can promise she is much loved where we live in South Alabama there is a mural of her in her birth town near where we live .Everyone around here adores her .My wife a lifelong music fan had the privilege of living in her home she lived in for a while meeting her on several occasions .She has hundreds of photos and autographs of her with music legends but the photos of her with Big Mama are her most treasured she has not been forgotten at all at least not down here
She wrote it. Actually, Lieber and Stoller wrote for her. She was performing at a folk festival and those 2 guys wrote the song on a paper sack and handed it to her. Mama and the band ad libbed the song then and there. Elvis heard it on a record by Big Mama.
Big Mama Thornton is, in herself, one of the main talents in terms of blues... Her ability to shake the spirit as far as possible is, in fact, indisputable...
@@tcblev601 He most absolutely stole it. Yes covers were popular at that time but when you build a whole name of one song that someone else did a million times better you stole
@@anxiousbehaviour4832 Elvis was more popular than any other singer!! She recorded this in 53 Elvis in 56. The song Elvis recorded had changed lyrics and genre from blues to rock. Elvis stole nothing from her. It was the version by Freddie Bell who was 9th to record it that Elvis liked and he did a cover of that.
Hound Dog was written by legendary lyricists Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish white men. Big Mamma did NOT OWN THE SONG. She covered it just like Elvis did, and about a dozen other artists at the time. HER RECORD COMPANY owners were corrupt and run by two crooks -- Johnny Otis -- A white Greek dude who passed as a black man and Don Robey. Poor Big Mamma never got paid while her record manager became MILLIONAIRES. She made just $500 on that song Hound Dog. But that had NOTHING AT ALL to do with Elvis who opened a LOT OF DOORS for black artists such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown and changed the WORLD. Once Elvis broke out EVERYONE MADE MONEY. (Sadly, super talented Big Mamma got dumped in the Chitlin circuit by her corrupt management and that's where her career ended. They stole a ton of her money... millions.)
@@depper sorry sir You have your history confused Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard who is the innovator of Rock n Roll and all those artists you have spoken about came from Little Richard including Elvis Presley.
@@2LivePromo You are ignorant. " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Instead of talking like an idiot, do some research instead. Here is the legendary LITTLE RICHARD - "He sung my Tootie Frutti & by him singing it, made it bigger & made ME bigger" And then he said: “I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”- Little Richard
@@2LivePromo The legendary BB King proves you wrong: "In June 1956, Presley ignored Memphis's segregation ordinances by attending 'Colored Night' at the local fairgrounds amusement park. The following December, King was there as Presley opened up almost unbreakable racial barriers by attending and supporting the segregated WDIA black radio station's annual fund-raising event for 'needy black children' at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium. King wrote in his autobiography that he 'liked Elvis. I saw him as a fellow Mississippian. I was impressed by his sincerity. " -- BB King "When he came to the Goodwill Review (the event WDIA fund raisers of 1956 and 1957), he did himself proud'. 'The Goodwill Revues were important', he wrote. 'The entire black community turned out. All the DJs carried on, putting on skits and presenting good music'. In his autobiography, King said he held no grudges because 'Elvis didn't steal any music from anyone. He just had his own interpretation of the music he'd grown up on, same is true for everyone. I think Elvis had integrity'." -- -- BB King "'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history. 'Many nights after we finished our sets and I'd go up to his suite', King stated. 'I'd play Lucille (on Elvis' guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we'd take turns. It was his way of relaxing'. 'I'll tell you a secret', King winked and laughed. 'We were the original Blues Brothers because that man Elvis knew more blues songs than most in the business - and after some nights it felt like we sang everyone one of them." 'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said, 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'." -- -- BB King
@@2LivePromo And finally... . " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Moron. Elvis CREDITED SONGWRITERS. And WAS CREDITED on EVERY SONG, on EACH ALBUM. EVERY SONG WRITER GOT PAID, and paid really well. Elvis credited every songwriter - on every album Elvis made without exception. Yes -- Including the black song writers that sold their music to Elvis to perform. Lieber and Stoller were two Jewish guys that wrote most of Elvis best material from the early 50s. Not a SINGLE STOLEN SONG. Most big stars had songs written for them. It was considered an honor to have an Ella Fitsgerald, Elvis, Frank Sinatra or a Nat King Cole perform a song that songwritewriters wrote. And no one paid black songwriters more than Elvis Presley.
They should do a show about her life story, they done one for Ray Charles and I think her contribution is as important and life altering. One of the greatest.
Ray Charles was a star with crossover hits with black and white audiences. Big Mama was fairly obscure, with a much smaller fan base. It would be hard to guarantee an audience for the movie. A doc would be great, though.
@@MontaguStudios I looked up Big Mama Thorton and Hound dog and it came up under all the songs she has sung. Ir might have been put on Spotify more recently and that's why you couldn't find it before
I love her style and charisma . Talent and charisma rolled into one ! Didn't even know there was a better version than Elvis and she is the original ! WOW !
Es increíble lo que te hace sentir está música, todo lo que es gospel, jazz, blues, soul, lo traigo en mi alma y me recorre por todo el cuerpo, gracias por este video, es una joya.
In 1970 I had just turned 21. It was late in the evening on a hot summer night and my friend and I wanted a cold beer. We were on Yonge Street in Toronto in the entertainment district. The closest bar featured a band called "Motherlode" which had a minor hit on the Billboard charts. When we entered we found that a heavy cover charge was levied and we had little money. There was also a line up to get in. When we said that all we wanted was a beer, the man at the door suggested we go downstairs to a room where admission was free. We complied and under a dim blue light in a sparsely filled room we encountered Big Mama and she was singing her heart out. She wore a small 50s style hat with small feathers protruding at the front. In her last set there was a little boy about 10 years old playing on the drums...he was quite good for his age. I wondered whether he was a relative of hers or perhaps the son of a band member. Motherlode never enjoyed much success after that, but Big Mama Thornton has left her legacy in American music. Going downstairs was a great decision!
"You make me feel so good, you make me weep and moan!" That's what you do Miss Lady, Miss Legend of all Legends, you are awesome! I love how she carries her big ole bag (bolsa) onto the stage before she belts out the Blues! I'm forever in Love!
This many harmonica players each with their own signature sound... in one song is OMG!!! OMG !!! Just incredible... And Big Mama is ! A ! ma ! zing ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
As we all know, the song was written for her. But what she made out of it is very, very strong. That slow outburst of power in her interpretation of that song is amazing.
It's 6:30 in the mornin' and I've got this blarring. I'm jumping and dancing around the kitchen. My nine year son is by my side. This has made my day and it's only starting.
If you like rock and roll, thank her.
Amen (and Sister Rosetta Tharpe too)
@@mctavish23Blues, not rock
@Sweet--Richard.4981 where do you think rock came from? You have a lot to learn. You'd do well to spend more time reading and researching and less time making asinine comments.
2024
I love music
Regardless of race
Beautiful Saturday evening
Had to come listen to some good music
Me to😊
Thankful that the internet makes it possible to discover and keep this music alive. Her voice is like a slap across the face in the best way possible.
Si te pega una bofetada lleva comida para el viaje
I like your analogy
She could shout and sing with fine musicality and feel. Super!
When I heard it I couldn't describe it. The first NOTE. OMG. soul shaking. I love discovering these GEMS. Perfect wording
She also reminds me of Etta James and Mama Cass!
Rock and roll owes a lot to Big Mama Thornton.
A great and one time only performance. I saw biking at beale Street Cafe. I was blessed.
All talent and didn't have to look like or act like a street walker to be a great act!
Rock and roll owes it all to Sister Rosetta
U R right bro..
You ain’t lying
I love how she came from the back singing with no microphone! Yaass big mama!
She's so cool. I love how she casually wanders in and places her bag down, before blowing the place apart. Wonderful. x
Yes
@@QueenAnitaSoul She was a great woman!!!!
And here the masses swore patti la yelle did it first....Big Momma would come out wailing without a microphone 🎤...I mem’ba I was there...Big Momma Thornton was a bad bitch ❤️❤️
I felt it on a spiritual level
This made me tear up. How am I only learning of this woman now? What an immense talent!
I listened to her when I was a kid and that's over 30+ years ago.
I thought I was going to be the only one who got a strong reaction :,D
Agree. I've never heard of her.
Elvis stile most of his music from her
@Kristi Astral if you think she's good check out Sister Rossetta Thorpe
I understand why the older generation is not impressed with the new music out now. Back then, you had to have real talent.
That’s s “utterly” unimpressed.
Indeed 💯✅👍
C'est tellement vrai... 👍👍👍💖
Y una biografía que condujo a esas expresiónes artísticas sin hipocresías provocó un desahogo en medio tanto racismo..brillante..admirables seres auténticos..independientes....❤
Metrosister rose
57 years later and it still is a masterpiece
And it'll be a masterpiece in another 114 years from now
Damn right
It goes in your blood, head and soul. Big ♥️
I'm 57 years old and I'm a masterpiece. Thanks big mama!)))
Wow
The song makes so much more sense being sang by the woman who wrote the song and viewing her a cheating man from her perspective. “ You ain’t nothing but a hound dog snooping around my door....I ain’t gone feed you no mo.” What a voice!
"woman who wrote the song" The song was written by two White Jewish men.
Agreed a great version , but get your facts correct
Song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who wrote Jailhouse Rock, Love Me and a ton of other huge hits. Two Jewish boys that came out of Los Angeles. Pioneers of rock and roll as far as songwriting goes.
Back in that era didn't believe in giving blacks their due. It's oblivious alot of white entertainer copy alot blacks music. Just because it sounded alot better.
@@cut1986 @Kent Westmoreland @Darlene Williams
They're two different songs with the same title. Big Mama Thornton wrote one, Leiber & Stoller wrote the other. They don't have the same melody, or the same lyrics except for eight words.
An analogy: Hambone Willie Newbern's blues classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'"' has twelve words in common with Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession over Judgement Day" and a similar tune, but it wouldn't be fair to say they're the same song.
Also the Leiber & Stoller song is rockabilly built on a 12-bar blues structure whereas Big Mama's song is straight-up glorious low-down blues!💙
Damn, She deserves a lot more credit than she got.. What an amazingly talented musician, a triple threat, & fierce on the harmonica..crazy how talented this woman was..
2022
She played the drums, too.
RIP, Big Mama!
Thanx so very very much for the magic, music, and memories.
@@931dmitris 💙
Oh yeeh
yep
No Autotune, no hi-tech. No special effects. No plastic posers. Just pure talent. Just red blood in their veins.
я тоже это сразу увидел, только талант
Pure and real.
I hope you get the chance to love something without it also having to be a flex. Just be in it, and soak it in. It's an amazing feeling.
And a singer who is a real woman and not a pseudosexy barbie doll ;-)
@@beayou109 EXACTLY!!
Love these women. Also Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
The beast one itself
O ya
I believe that the voice and swag of Mama Thornton should become a National treasure in American Music.
My God yes, did she ever have the swagger!
YES IT SHOULD.
Already is, saw her about 1965 very powerful.
She is black and also woman..it`s almost impossible in any country of the world tHats never will happen in the world. But in the USA certainly impossible (excuse me for my bad english)
@@carlosrodriguez-vj3nr strength and passion Big Mama was so extraordinary the White World learning the blues 💙
Had a great teacher , Powerful voice blues moves the whole world , still
Who's listening to this in 2021! Top-notch music!
🙋♀️
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🙋♂️
me
💁🏾♂️
I love how she casually walks in carrying her purse and sings so effortlessly.
Listening in 2024? BMT is inducted to Rock Hall Of Fame!
Much more deserved than rundmc
Let’s be clear! This is 1953! She is the original singer/writer of this song! Everyone else covered! Epic!
I’m awesome, how are you?
Great ! Born in 1953, I was…..Detroit. Lovin’ this !
Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller wrote this song when they were 19 years old!
@honestmark9281 Bruh
"Let's be clear" and then states the facts incorrectly. She didn't write this song.
I'm a white boy from Kentucky... I was born in the wrong Era. I love the old school blues. Big Mama Thornton touches my soul. What a set of lungs on her
i feel ya too bud.
You’re got great taste in music. I grew up listening to my father play her music. We loved her. This is just raw, PURE talent.
Why would you call yourself a whiteboy ? White man
@@jonclark3367 it’s a Southern thing. Like saying “I’m just a country boy” Jerry Lee Lewis use to say that. Just a figure of speech. I’m an urban city “girl” actually a senior citizen. It’s all colloquial. 😊
I'm a 5-foot white woman from KY I love it. never did disco.
Outstanding! Makes more sense when sung by a woman.
Yes indeed!!
Fantastic!!!!! Now that’s the real deal!
Well Elvis's cover is supposed to be what the woman is saying to him. Great song either way.
Exactly.
Yes it does.
She even brought her purse to stage. True power move.
❤
yo, you indian?
I get goose bumps when I listen to this woman sang!!! She's giving you something you can feel.
Tina Turner and I even never heard of big mama wow God bless
Beautiful black sound
Omg I was feeling goosebumps it’s been a while since I heard good music.
Awesome!
Evis could neva! Respectfully
Her tone on “YOOOOUUUUU AINT NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG” is pure bliss
I was scrolling thumbnails and listening to 30 second intros, and that exact part is what made me click all the way into this video...I was like, oh WAIT A minute...! 😦 I've heard of this woman but I've never heard this VOICE...now I see why I've heard about her! 🤩🗣
I hope she gets a movie done about her life. She is so underrated and never really got recognized for her work unless somebody ripped her song off. If hound dog is the only song you know that she sung please research before debating with me.
Yessss🙏
If they do I think that queen latifah should play her she kinda reminds me of her ❤️
@@geniasmith5791 she did a great job as Bessie smith
@@geniasmith5791 excellent voice
@@geniasmith5791 oh please no
Man that’s what real music is !!!!!!! From the soul !! Thank god that it was recorded !! They are the originators of the music I love !!!!
She was fabulous!! Wow! She is one of Janis Joplin’s influences. Now I see why.
ball and chains was orginally written and song by big moma thorthon in 1956
@@nettiegraham6983 Janis admired her,
Tina Turner was her influences
@@Dino-su2wh Guess you didn’t see the documentary or read the biography on Janis.
This woman could catch a fish without a hook!!!!
Bryson Mills Lol!!!!!!
This shouldn’t make sense but it does lol
Best comment of the thread.
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and in a dry river in arizona or dubai
I have never heard anything like this. It actually gave me goose bumps I could feel every bit of passion that she pored into her music
not even the more popular Elvis cover
Badass
Yea Elvis did good and all but he just didn’t possess the same soul that big Mama Thorton had
Sing it Big Mama! That’s the soul and pain of the ancestors singing through her voice
When she started playing the harmonica and broke it down! I felt it in my spirit this is food for the soul baby!!!!
Me too, made me so proud to be black. How she lead those man its so amazing ✊🏾. Black women ✊🏾
It made me shake a leg too
Indeed!🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@andersonkevingwenhure2112 SAY THAT!❤️
My granddaddy was her band leader real music
😎💥🌚🎤🎼🎹🥁🎷🎺🎸🎻🌆
Cap
Michelle Ervin What was your grandfather's name I said before this woman needs her life story told and of course your grandfather's name and impact would be mentioned of course.
Holy moly, how amazing ! I would have begged to carry this woman's bags ! She's a rock star x
@@dwightlove3704 There's quite a lot of her life story in "Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton," a chapter of Maureen Mahon's terrific book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll.
Rock and roll is essentially black culture. But even racism cannot kill this kind of soulful music. I love the guy strumming on the guitar! Beautiful
That’s a whole team of blues legends with her: Howlin wolf, little Walter , man to get to see a show like that
That rasist people what you call’d save this genre until today. No you.
That is Buddy Guy a legend!
Wooooh! 18 year old, born, and raised in Arkansas!
Blues Musician, Scholar, Bard, and an Avid Blues Iistener.
We need more people my age listening to real Music.
23 and I hear ya.
I'm a white woman that grew up in KY. And Big Mama ❤️ Always played in our house ☺️ My whole family is Musicians. Mama Thorntons voice was my favorite. She gave me "Soul" 🥰
I still wonder why white people hate black people so much for no reason
Dope Things 🔥
Miss Mama walks out with that purse of hers and damn it, you KNOW she means BUSINESS!
deeway1963 hell yea
Amen Bro..!
deeway1963 That goes without saying.I think she used to carry a small pistol with her for protection?????
deeway1963 Lol! 😂Right?! As soon as I heard her singing (and she wasn’t even in front of the mic yet) and then set her big ol’ purse down I KNEW she meant business! 😳😍💪🏽👏🏽
deeway1963 lol alright now!
There is more talent and joy on that stage than the last 10 years of music combined.
She had talent in buckets, rivers of attitude and the sheer charisma that modern performers would give a limb for ❤
The originator.
The original.
The one,
the only,
Big Mama Thornton.
Nothing can be finer than this.
I thank you.
RIP John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001), aged 83
RIP Big Walter Horton (April 6, 1921 - December 8, 1981), aged 60
RIP Doctor Ross (October 21, 1925 - May 28, 1993), aged 67
RIP Big Mama Thornton (December 11, 1926 - July 25, 1984), aged 57
RIP J. B. Lenoir (March 5, 1929 - April 29, 1967), aged 38
You will be remembered as a legends.
so glad that I have found you , amazing lady, thankyou Mama Thornton 😊
Is that John Lee playing guitar!
@@susanawright7757 The credits at the end of this video mention Buddy Guy, so I think that's him playing guitar. John Lee Hooker is playing the mouth harp, 4th guy after Big Mama Thornton.
Dr. Ross was my neighbor in Flint, Michigan in the late 60's.
@@susanawright7757It is Buddy Guy.
Hands Down THE BEST VERSION There is of this song. She is No Doubt THE BOSS!
I love Big Mamma Thornton,pure raw energy 💥❤️🔥💯 !!!
Everyone likes to call things "underrated" in comments, but the harmonica is definitely underrated and these musicians show us its true potential.
Her and Sister Rosetta Tharpe , who was a phenomenal guitar player, contributed greatly to the and Rock and Roll.
Legends on stage, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Big Momma still controlled it. This could have been a Super Bowl half time show .
Hound Dog was good...then...she hit that harmonica....!😀 This is old time good time 'Jukin'
Fred Below on drums.
Give a shit about american football. These guys in their prime - who want to see some guys on steroids running for some ball? Honestly... :D
A movie should be made of this marvelous artist. This is great.
It really should, instead of Elvis. Or at least do hers before his. SMH.
Lizzo would be perfect for that role
Queen latifah would been perfect.
The Roots of Rock right there!
Así es del buen blues
Man if I ever make it to heaven these are the harps I wanna hear
Me too ! 🥰
She was called big mama due to being 6 ft and 450 pounds, Thornton was found dead at age 57, by medical personnel in a Los Angeles boarding house, on July 25, 1984 She died of heart and liver disorders, due to her longstanding alcohol abuse, She had lost 355 pounds (161 kg) in a short time, as a result of illness her weight dropping, from 450 to 95 pounds (204 to 43 kg) R.I.P.
RIP Mama.
😢😢❤
Leaving behind a rich, unforgettable legacy. May she Rest In Peace.
When a black woman walk in and lays her purse down, you know that something bout to pop off!
THAT is the truth!
1965 I mem’ba ole Big Momma Thorton...I was 34 years ole...The late great Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin,stole that whole bringing her purse to the stage from Big Momma Thornton .#RESTWELLAdies
🤣🤣👍🏿👍🏿
And when she grabs her harmonica... You instantly know it's a weapon of massdestruction...
She did a second take on this that's even better (Hound dog take 2), and Buddy Guy, omg!
Qué grandiosa! Espectacular está señora. No me canso de escucharla.❤
The original and pure rock'n roll.
It's not RnR though. It's Blues.
Real music, thanks for making this gem possible. Long live the BLUES.❤❤❤❤
The Blues - my favorite type of music and songs.
I LOVE BIG MA T...wow...she recorded Hound Dog three years before Elvis...(I think she sang it better)...she was the real deal. I wish a movie would be made about her life...what a treasure she was. RIP Big Ma the world still remembers you.
Sunshine Water I think JILL SCOTT could play her you agree??????
I think Queen Latifa would suit playing Big Mama Thornton
I can promise she is much loved where we live in South Alabama there is a mural of her in her birth town near where we live .Everyone around here adores her .My wife a lifelong music fan had the privilege of living in her home she lived in for a while meeting her on several occasions .She has hundreds of photos and autographs of her with music legends but the photos of her with Big Mama are her most treasured she has not been forgotten at all at least not down here
@@lowriderrookie me too!! She would be perfect!!
@@kennethmcdonald2987 wow! I gotta look that town up and come by there. Sad that she ended up dying broke and alone.
I’m proud to say she was born in Ariton, Alabama, where my people come from. There is a lot of talent that came from Alabama.
So much music and history came out of the Americana Music Triangle, home of 9 distinct music genres. It’s on my bucket list to go explore the area.
Levon helm!
The American south gave birth to plenty of wonderful music.
HOME GROWN talent!
Amazing
Big Mama Thornton-s voice is like a nightrain. Pure gold.
This is my very favourite version of Hound Dog. Big Mama was awrsome ❤
She wrote it. Actually, Lieber and Stoller wrote for her. She was performing at a folk festival and those 2 guys wrote the song on a paper sack and handed it to her. Mama and the band ad libbed the song then and there. Elvis heard it on a record by Big Mama.
Elvis was ok, but Mama Thornton does it best
@PatriciaWyzga-mz6bm Ywah, I agree Patricia. ☺️
I could watch this a million times and never get tired of it!
I think I have already! 🤣
As God intended
Only people with soul can sing like that.Her voice is so incredible and I can listen to it all day.What a woman!
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@@ThompsonSmith207I'm doing fine. How are you?
Big Mama Thornton: respect!
I love how calm and collective she is, standing there with pride and honor.
Stunning! Her voice is something I can’t explain, I get a feeling in my bones.
It's called hot buttered soul ❤
Its called the blues....you get it or you don't
Big Mama Thornton is, in herself, one of the main talents in terms of blues... Her ability to shake the spirit as far as possible is, in fact, indisputable...
Whew ! Talent ! She handled that harmonica with ease ! All of them did amazing. This is the song Elvis stole.
Yes it was 100% n don't let no one else tell you.
@@marysalvi242 look the song is about a man whore why would a man sing about another man being a whore
Hound Dog has been recorded by 250 singers/bands. Poor Elvis was the 10th to record it. He stole nothing from her.
@@tcblev601 He most absolutely stole it. Yes covers were popular at that time but when you build a whole name of one song that someone else did a million times better you stole
@@anxiousbehaviour4832 Elvis was more popular than any other singer!! She recorded this in 53 Elvis in 56. The song Elvis recorded had changed lyrics and genre from blues to rock. Elvis stole nothing from her. It was the version by Freddie Bell who was 9th to record it that Elvis liked and he did a cover of that.
My goodness, what talent!!!! God bless Black America!!!
God bless all women 😊
Came here because of Doja Cat and the new Vegas movie. So glad I learned about Big Mama Thornton. Will research all her songs.
Hound Dog was written by legendary lyricists Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish white men. Big Mamma did NOT OWN THE SONG. She covered it just like Elvis did, and about a dozen other artists at the time. HER RECORD COMPANY owners were corrupt and run by two crooks -- Johnny Otis -- A white Greek dude who passed as a black man and Don Robey. Poor Big Mamma never got paid while her record manager became MILLIONAIRES. She made just $500 on that song Hound Dog. But that had NOTHING AT ALL to do with Elvis who opened a LOT OF DOORS for black artists such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown and changed the WORLD. Once Elvis broke out EVERYONE MADE MONEY. (Sadly, super talented Big Mamma got dumped in the Chitlin circuit by her corrupt management and that's where her career ended. They stole a ton of her money... millions.)
@@depper sorry sir You have your history confused Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard who is the innovator of Rock n Roll and all those artists you have spoken about came from Little Richard including Elvis Presley.
@@2LivePromo You are ignorant. " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Instead of talking like an idiot, do some research instead. Here is the legendary LITTLE RICHARD - "He sung my Tootie Frutti & by him singing it, made it bigger & made ME bigger" And then he said: “I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”- Little Richard
@@2LivePromo The legendary BB King proves you wrong: "In June 1956, Presley ignored Memphis's segregation ordinances by attending 'Colored Night' at the local fairgrounds amusement park. The following December, King was there as Presley opened up almost unbreakable racial barriers by attending and supporting the segregated WDIA black radio station's annual fund-raising event for 'needy black children' at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium. King wrote in his autobiography that he 'liked Elvis. I saw him as a fellow Mississippian. I was impressed by his sincerity. " -- BB King
"When he came to the Goodwill Review (the event WDIA fund raisers of 1956 and 1957), he did himself proud'. 'The Goodwill Revues were important', he wrote. 'The entire black community turned out. All the DJs carried on, putting on skits and presenting good music'. In his autobiography, King said he held no grudges because 'Elvis didn't steal any music from anyone. He just had his own interpretation of the music he'd grown up on, same is true for everyone. I think Elvis had integrity'." -- -- BB King
"'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history. 'Many nights after we finished our sets and I'd go up to his suite', King stated. 'I'd play Lucille (on Elvis' guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we'd take turns. It was his way of relaxing'. 'I'll tell you a secret', King winked and laughed. 'We were the original Blues Brothers because that man Elvis knew more blues songs than most in the business - and after some nights it felt like we sang everyone one of them."
'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said, 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'." -- -- BB King
@@2LivePromo And finally... . " Elvis never put on nobody especially not Little Richard"??? Moron. Elvis CREDITED SONGWRITERS. And WAS CREDITED on EVERY SONG, on EACH ALBUM. EVERY SONG WRITER GOT PAID, and paid really well. Elvis credited every songwriter - on every album Elvis made without exception. Yes -- Including the black song writers that sold their music to Elvis to perform. Lieber and Stoller were two Jewish guys that wrote most of Elvis best material from the early 50s. Not a SINGLE STOLEN SONG. Most big stars had songs written for them. It was considered an honor to have an Ella Fitsgerald, Elvis, Frank Sinatra or a Nat King Cole perform a song that songwritewriters wrote. And no one paid black songwriters more than Elvis Presley.
They should do a show about her life story, they done one for Ray Charles and I think her contribution is as important and life altering. One of the greatest.
I'm for that,,,,Listen up Amazon prime Originals
Queen Latifah would be excellent
Ray Charles was a star with crossover hits with black and white audiences. Big Mama was fairly obscure, with a much smaller fan base. It would be hard to guarantee an audience for the movie. A doc would be great, though.
Loved the video such talent awesome!!!
The original song and artist. Absolutely no substitute. Awesome!
Good Lord…There are,those,sent from Above, you’ve Blessed Us With. GOD is Great.
Wow How did I ever miss this Elvis couldn't hold a candle
Hound Dog was written for her by two Jewish white boys named Lieber and Stroller.
Doja cat brought me here and I may not be a big fan of hers but God bless her for bringing me to this talent.
This is by far the best version. I wish it's on Spotify cos the original album version lacks the Bluesy punch.
It is on spotify
She used to sing it as a ballad until it was suggested to do otherwise.
@@Ashely56 This particular version? What’s it called?
@@MontaguStudios I looked up Big Mama Thorton and Hound dog and it came up under all the songs she has sung. Ir might have been put on Spotify more recently and that's why you couldn't find it before
I specifically came to RUclips bc the spotify version is not nearly as soulful as this!
Was für ein Power,was für eine Energie und alles ohne Dro...n
Einfach super ❤
Big Mama T´s voice was just so incredible... how can somebody have such a voice... this will stay forever...
This needs to be part of the public school curriculum.
exactly!
i'm teaching it today ^_^
It is, I’m here studying this song and comparing it to Elvis’ version.
In my history we learned how Elvis stole this song from her... so I guess it is teached, just not often.
Zíł'ghaáh Most of Elvis hits were REMAKES
The way she starts as she’s walking on stage. Outstanding performance and what a voice and band.
I love her style and charisma . Talent and charisma rolled into one ! Didn't even know there was a better version than Elvis and she is the original ! WOW !
bin>get.
She is not at all intimated by the male harmonica players...
love it!
How come this woman is not a known legend ? Geezzz this is probably the best singer ever.
🤣🤣 she is a known legend ! dont you recognise the song 😃
Es increíble lo que te hace sentir está música, todo lo que es gospel, jazz, blues, soul, lo traigo en mi alma y me recorre por todo el cuerpo, gracias por este video, es una joya.
This is awesome. Always find myself going back to roots music. No effects just soul, rawness and feel.
What a woman. Plus what a blues voice
OMG. I have never heard of theses guys. Now, I will never forget them
You never heard of buddy guy or John Lee hooker? Wow
😊
So Klasse !!! Hervorragend !!!! Einzigartig ! Wunderbar !!! FRAUENPOWER !
lol. Yup!
hell yea!
wow!! This woman is cheering me up in the pandemic!! Feb 2021, London, UK.
all of us, even her in so-cal. plus is fake. Shh.
In 1970 I had just turned 21. It was late in the evening on a hot summer night and my friend and I wanted a cold beer. We were on Yonge Street in Toronto in the entertainment district. The closest bar featured a band called "Motherlode" which had a minor hit on the Billboard charts. When we entered we found that a heavy cover charge was levied and we had little money. There was also a line up to get in. When we said that all we wanted was a beer, the man at the door suggested we go downstairs to a room where admission was free. We complied and under a dim blue light in a sparsely filled room we encountered Big Mama and she was singing her heart out. She wore a small 50s style hat with small feathers protruding at the front. In her last set there was a little boy about 10 years old playing on the drums...he was quite good for his age. I wondered whether he was a relative of hers or perhaps the son of a band member. Motherlode never enjoyed much success after that, but Big Mama Thornton has left her legacy in American music. Going downstairs was a great decision!
Simply fantastic. Completely underappreciated pioneers.
"You make me feel so good, you make me weep and moan!" That's what you do Miss Lady, Miss Legend of all Legends, you are awesome! I love how she carries her big ole bag (bolsa) onto the stage before she belts out the Blues! I'm forever in Love!
Amen Elvis couldn't hold a candle n cut to mama Thornton she was the best of the best still Love listening to her
This is so good. Big MAMA and John Lee Hooker. You know good music is coming!
Where are the Big mamas in our time?!!!! We need more Mamas!!!
You're a music lover aren't ya.
big mama was a bad ass pure raw talent..an original,,
This many harmonica players each with their own signature sound... in one song is OMG!!! OMG !!! Just incredible... And Big Mama is ! A ! ma ! zing ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
John Lee hooker can tell was not comfortable can see lol.. the rookie of the bunch
If it wasn’t for Elvis, I wouldn’t have seen this. Love both performances!
If you can't rock out to this you were never alive. Wonderful Blueswoman!
As we all know, the song was written for her. But what she made out of it is very, very strong. That slow outburst of power in her interpretation of that song is amazing.
Big Mama did that for real!! Awesome talent!!! RIP Big Mama!
Big Mama was a powerhouse. What a voice, what a presence.
Her voice is almost a decade or more ahead of it's time... she had killer range
It's 6:30 in the mornin' and I've got this blarring. I'm jumping and dancing around the kitchen. My nine year son is by my side. This has made my day and it's only starting.
Great hearing this. Glad you like it and made your day.
awww 😭
Her voice is amazing I love her energy and unlike most artists, you can tell she loves what she does. 🙌🏾😍
I just want to say..um,well..🙄🤔you're absolutely BEAUTIFUL 😍🤤🤭oops❣ (l had too,shiiiid 💩)
They still everything we do. She deserves all the credit for this wonderful song.
This is historic and it sounds very good. In honor of Big Mama Thornton.