Leiber said his attitude toward the cover changed over time. “I didn’t particularly like Elvis’ version of ‘Hound Dog’ at the time, but as time passed I grew very fond of it,” he said.

“Elvis knew Big Mama’s record, but Big Mama’s version of ‘Hound Dog’ was written for a woman,” he said. “And so Elvis couldn’t perform it that way.

But if you’re hearing a lot more “Hound Dog” these days, you might look to Doja Cat’s hit song “Vegas,” which updates — and interpolates — one of Elvis’s signature songs for ...

Before Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog," it was made famous by Big Mama Thornton, who refused to let the world forget it.

Doja Cat is taking Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” back to its original blues roots: Big Mama Thornton. On Thursday, the singer released “Vegas,” her track from the upcoming Elvis biopic set ...

The “Hound Dog” vocal and the “Vegas” song, which itself samples Dukureh’s “Hound Dog” cover, essentially overlap, and the cue sheet declares a minute and 20 seconds of “Vegas ...

One of such — Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton — debuted her R&B anthem “Hound Dog” in 1953, three years before Elvis Presley released his hit cover.

“Elvis was completely open and never acted like a diva,” Stoller says in his and Leiber’s autobiography “Hound Dog.” One of Stoller’s favorite Elvis memories dates back to ‘57.