Elvis Presley - Hound Dog [HD]

Elvis Presley sings 'Hound Dog', a 1956 hit single that was one of the best-selling singles of all time. The version on this video is from the 1958 RCA Victor compilation album 'Elvis' Golden Records'. The lyrics are below with notes on the song.

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Hound Dog (Singer: Elvis Presley)

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine

Well, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
Well, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine

Well, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
Well, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine

Well, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
You know, they said you was high-class
Well, that was just a lie
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit, you ain't no friend of mine

Songwriters: Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton on August 13, 1952, in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in late February 1953, "Hound Dog" was Thornton's only hit record, selling over 500,000 copies, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at number one. Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll", and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.

"Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked number 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Presley's version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and "an emblem of the rock 'n' roll revolution". It was simultaneously number one on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presley's 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and it is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".